A Portrait of Dagestan by Dmitry Kostyukov

The photographs were taken between May 12-16, 2013.

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humanrightswatch: Aida Ogonyan with her two children and a neighbor’s children inside a damaged home on Ternovaya Street in Chereshnya village, Sochi, where construction of electrical lines as infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games caused landslides, resulting in severe damage to houses, including collapse of walls and cracks in foundations and walls. After a wall collapsed in her house, Ogonyan complained to the local authorities on numerous occasions beginning in March 2012. In response, the authorities threatened to place her children with social services because their home was deemed “uninhabitable.” The authorities eventually ordered the construction company responsible for the electrical lines to install a metal trailer next to the damaged home for the family to live in. © 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty for Human Rights Watch
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Aida Ogonyan with her two children and a neighbor’s children inside a damaged home on Ternovaya Street in Chereshnya village, Sochi, where construction of electrical lines as infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games caused landslides, resulting in severe damage to houses, including collapse of walls and cracks in foundations and walls. After a wall collapsed in her house, Ogonyan complained to the local authorities on numerous occasions beginning in March 2012. In response, the authorities threatened to place her children with social services because their home was deemed “uninhabitable.” The authorities eventually ordered the construction company responsible for the electrical lines to install a metal trailer next to the damaged home for the family to live in. 

© 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty for Human Rights Watch

May Day rallies around the world // May 1, 2013

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Vladimir Samsonov, 59, sunbathes as he sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on April 26, 2013. [Credit : Ilya Naymushin/Reuters]
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Vladimir Samsonov, 59, sunbathes as he sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on April 26, 2013.

[Credit : Ilya Naymushin/Reuters]

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timelightbox: Photograph by Steeve Iuncker—Agence VU Today on LightBox we present photos by Steeve Iuncker that guide you  through the coldest city on earth, Yakutsk, where temperatures regularly fall to -40°C.
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Photograph by Steeve Iuncker—Agence VU

Today on LightBox we present photos by Steeve Iuncker that guide you  through the coldest city on earth, Yakutsk, where temperatures regularly fall to -40°C.

A pile of snow is seen in Red Square during a snowfall in central Moscow on March 25, 2013. St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin are seen in the background. [Credit : Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters]
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A pile of snow is seen in Red Square during a snowfall in central Moscow on March 25, 2013. St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin are seen in the background.

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A snow plough clears the Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin, right, in Moscow, late on March 24. The State Historical Museum is in the background, left. [Credit : Katya Abramkina/AFP/Getty Images]
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A snow plough clears the Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin, right, in Moscow, late on March 24. The State Historical Museum is in the background, left.

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A woman stands on a pier under an umbrella during a storm in a Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on March 24, 2013. [Credit : Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images]
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A woman stands on a pier under an umbrella during a storm in a Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on March 24, 2013.

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Two men are seen on the seafront in Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 18, 2013. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opens on February 7, 2014. [Credit : Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]
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Two men are seen on the seafront in Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 18, 2013. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opens on February 7, 2014.

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humanrightswatch: People and Power: The 2014 Sochi Olympics A woman points towards the Caucasus Mountains in Sochi, Russia, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. © 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for Human Rights Watch
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People and Power: The 2014 Sochi Olympics

A woman points towards the Caucasus Mountains in Sochi, Russia, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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timelightbox: Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev went from an embed in Afghanistan to the aristocracy of the Bolshoi Ballet in mere hours in back-to-back assignments for TIME. See the work here on LightBox. Pictured: Svetlana Zakharova, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, during a curtain call with principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze after a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev went from an embed in Afghanistan to the aristocracy of the Bolshoi Ballet in mere hours in back-to-back assignments for TIME. See the work here on LightBox.

Pictured: Svetlana Zakharova, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, during a curtain call with principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze after a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi Theatre.

humanrightswatch: Russia: Migrant Olympic Workers Cheated, Exploited Migrant workers building sites and infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, have been cheated and exploited. With exactly one year to go before the Winter Olympics, Russia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should make rigorous monitoring of workers’ rights on Olympic construction sites a top priority to prevent further abuses. Photo: © 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for Human Rights Watch
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Russia: Migrant Olympic Workers Cheated, Exploited

Migrant workers building sites and infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, have been cheated and exploited. With exactly one year to go before the Winter Olympics, Russia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should make rigorous monitoring of workers’ rights on Olympic construction sites a top priority to prevent further abuses.

Photo: © 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for Human Rights Watch

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Sending out a warm welcome to Maria Turchenkova, the newest member of Reportage Emerging Talent.  A former radio journalist, Maria now spends much of her time in the Republic of Dagestan working on her long term project Hidden War in the Land of Mountains (see more here).

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Human Rights Watch and Brent Stirton report from Sochi, Russia, where the local population has been especially affected by massive efforts to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. As one resident, evicted from his home, recalls:

‘My home was everything, I spent my whole life on my house.  I have a big family.  A daughter, a son, grandchildren, a wife.  We all lived together in the house.  We built the house in 1996, and in 2012 the Olympics came and they demolished my home.’

Please see the full report from Human Rights Watch here.

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Over the past ten years, Russia has seen a rise in domestic cults; the Russian Orthodox church estimates that over four thousand religious movements currently exist across the country.

Click-through for a selection of David Monteleone’s photographs from his time with the Vissarionites, a religious cult that lives in a community based in the rural Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, and more on the Vissarionites by Maria Lokke: http://nyr.kr/WCv0SB