Russia, Yakutia, July 2017 A hunter with the pristine mammoth tusk. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2012.

Tunisia, Tunis, 17 January 2016 Amina Sboui, Tunisia's most outspoken feminist. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Vasilyi Ivanovich, the elder †of the tribe.

Eduard Limonov�is a�Russian�writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of the radical�National Bolshevik Party.

Moscow Russia December 30 2013 Freed Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina walk in downtown Moscow.

Tunisia, Tunis, 15 January 2016 Anissa Daoud, actress and activist, produced a documentary: Our Women in Politics and Society. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Saransk Mordovia Russia February 2013 "Yemelyan Pugachev was a peasant tsar who came to Kazan and to Saransk. I am like Pugachev: I am a peasant, and I want to be tsar of Saransk," Depardieu said. The actor said that he wanted to carry out a project related to Yemelyan Pugachev. "This is a very interesting figure, a kind of third king, the king of the peasants. Saransk is the place of Pugachev?s activities, so it turned out for the best that I am now going to live in Saransk," said Depardieu.

St Petersburg Russia October 2013 Elena Kostyuchenko, a prominent Russian LGBT activist and journalist for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta

Russia, Moscow, September 2016 Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova has been one of the most divisive figures of the Olympic Games. Having served a doping ban between October 2013 and February 2015, Efimova tested positive for meldonium earlier this year, only for her provisional suspension to be overturned by the sport's governing body, clearing her to compete in Rio. The Russian doping scandal overshadowed the buildup to these Olympics. The IAAF, the body that governs international track and field, took the decision to ban all of its athletes from competing. Efimova found out she could take part in the Games the day only after the Opening Ceremonies had taken place. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Yakutsk, Russia. Stepan Burnashev, called the Yakutian Tarantino, at the set of his new horror movie "black power". He calls it experimential - because he is working with a two-man-team only. It's a zero-budget movie. His friend Yevgeny Osipov (left) is the operator. Actor Vladimir Sedelnikov dreams to make his own movie - something like Indianer Jones. But in real life, he is a pilot. Burnashev loves to work in the cold. His all time record is minus 53 - his wife had to make a special cover for the camera. Here, in the outskirts of Yakutsk, it's only minus 35. In the movie, Vladimir will be followed by a virtual zombie.

Russia, Torzhok, 09 September 2016 Members of the Yunarmiya, or Young Army, a military training organization for Russian youths that was created last year by the Ministry of Defense, in Torzhok, Russia, September 2016. The Young Army recruits children as young as 10 to take part in shooting drills and patriotic summer camps across the country, teaching them to live a healthy lifestyle and work in the service of the Motherland. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Russia, Chechnya, Grozny, 18 April 2015 Young women in Chechnya await the arrival of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov at a folk festival near the town of Shali. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Havana Cuba Jan 2015 Children ride in a private taxi in Havana, Cuba. Private and collective taxis are the main form of transport for Cubans, who for 10 pesos (50cents USD), get around the city in old American cars, Jan. 2015.

A resident of Derbent Hadezha Shofeeva had given evidence to the human rights group Memorial about the disappearance of her husband almost nine month ago.

RAMADI- IRAQ-APRIL, 2006: US Marine LCPL Anton E Volkov , Brooklyn, NY from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment shows his talisman.

RAS LANUF, LIBYA - MARCH 09: Libyan rebels advance during a battle with government troops as an oil facility burns

BENGHAZI, LIBYA - March 01: Volunteers at Benghazi's Salmani weapons maintenance depot. The growing resistance is made up of soldiers who have defected from Gaddafi's forces, as well as ordinary Libyan civilians.

BENGHAZI, LIBYA - FEBRUARY 24: Demonstrators held a rally in support of the Tripoli protesters in the main square of Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, where the revolt began, about 580 miles (940 kilometers) east of the capital along the Mediterranean coast. Demonstrators demand the removal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Eastern Libya is largely under opposition control, as Gaddafi's forces battled rebels near the capitol Tripoli

Tunisia, Tunis, 14 January 2016 Hela Ammar, doctor in law (teachs law at university) and visual artist. Hela lives and works in Sidi Bou Said. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Polina, 8 is a member of the commune of 51 families, age from 1 to 91 years, settled along the bank of Ob? river, 115 kilometers North of Novosibirsk. About 100,000 Russian families follow the Anastasia movement, based on the ideas of spiritual books by Vladimir Megre. New communities of homesteaders have sprung up across some of the most remote sections of Russia in the past decade, including Siberia, attracting thousands of Russians in search of a simple, self-sufficient and environmentally friendly lifestyle free from state control and big city corruption. The movement began about a decade ago, and increased several times over in recent years. Some participants think they have found solutions, others feel disappointed and disillusioned.

The Chechen girls at the opening ceremony of the memorial of Glory in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia.

Rasul Magomedov, Maryam Sharipova's father and a teacher at the Balakhany village school in Dagestan where his daughter also worked. he recognised his daughter, Maryam Sharipova, as one of the bombers in a photograph circulated on the internet. Magomedov said she disappeared the day before the 29 March bombings but said he had no idea how she got to Moscow from their home in southern Russia. He identified his daughter as one of the killers when a picture of her remains aired on national television.Magomedov teaches in the village school where Sharipova was deputy principal and an IT specialist. But the question is whether, for Sharipova, those connections were strong enough to die for or, as her parents believe, she was forced into carrying out a deadly mission against her will.

Baghdad, Iraq- Jan. 2008: Minta, Sunni, was tortured in a prison run by the Ministry of Interior.