Remarkable events and vibrant images of ordinary life - through the eyes of TASS photographers. Most stunning photographs of 2018 in this gallery by TASS
TASS’s most memorable moments of 2018 in pictures
Most stunning photographs of 2018 in this gallery by TASS
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Mexican football fans gather in Nikolskaya Street in central Moscow to celebrate Mexico's victory in a 2018 FIFA World Cup First Stage Group F match against Germany
© Alexander Ryumin/TASS France's President Emmanuel Macron celebrates a goal as FIFA President Gianni Infantino looks on at the final match of FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium
© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS Russia's goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev saves a penalty in 2018 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 football match against Spain at Luzhniki Stadium. Team Russia won the game on penalties 4:3
© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS France's players, the winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, during an award ceremony after the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final match between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS Goalie Ilya Sorokin of the Tarasov Division in the semi-final match against the Kharlamov Division during the Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, a four-team tournament between the Divisions of the League, as part of the 2018 Week of Hockey Stars, at Barys Arena in Astana
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS WBC/WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine, lifts the Ali Trophy as he celebrates winning his WBSS (World Boxing Super Series) cruiserweight final bout against WBA/IBF champion Murat Gassiev of Russia, at Moscow's Olympiyskiy Arena
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS 2018 Olympic champion, Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova holds an Akita Inu puppy named Masaru brought by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the Metropol Hotel
© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS Olympic Athlete from Russia Nikita Tregubov competes in the men's skeleton event at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Olympic Athlete from Russia Ilya Burov competes in the men's freestyle skiing aerials at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, at Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Fireworks over military ships on the Neva River in central St Petersburg on Russian Navy Day
© Marina Lystseva/TASS Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin ahead of being sworn-in as President of Russia in St Andrew's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace
© Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin eating Russian pancakes at the Far East Street exhibition on the sidelines of the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum on Russky Island
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Host Photo Agency US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS A religious memorial service takes place outside the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping centre on the third day of mourning declared for the victims of the March 25 fire killing over 60, many of them children, in Kemerovo
© Kirill Kukhmar/TASS
Servicemen and employees of special task force units of the Siberian District Troops of the Russian National Guard take qualification tests to earn the maroon beret at the Gorny training center
© Kirill Kukhmar/TASS Russia's President Vladimir Putin aims a rifle at the Kalashnikov shooting centre at Patriot military park
© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS
Sukhoi Su-35S jet fighter launches free-flight missiles to hit ground targets at a firing range as part of the district stage of the 2018 Aviadarts military aviation competition held at Tsentralnaya-Uglovaya airfield, Primorye Territory
© uri Smityuk/TASS A parade of army hardware and aviation involved in the main stage of the Vostok 2018 military exercises held jointly by the Russian Armed Forces and the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the Tsugol range
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia welcomes relics of Saint Spyridon of Trimythous from Corfu, Greece, at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS A portrait of Alexander III of Russia (1883) by painter Alexei Korzukhin seen during last-minute preparations for the Treasures of Russian Museums exhibition held as part of the 17th exhibition-forum titled Orthodox Rus - National Unity Day at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow
© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS Inside St Petersburg's Russian State Museum of Political History during the annual Night of Museums event, participating art spaces remaining open until late at night to offer exclusive cultural exhibitions and programmes
© Peter Kovalev/TASS Participants in the 2018 Zaplyv festival of handmade inflatables in 300 Years of St Petersburg Park
© Peter Kovalev/TASS A view of the Conquest of Space monument in a park of the Palace of Nations in Geneva
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS Participants of the Bridge, the first Crimean vintage car festival, cross Crimean Bridge on their way from Moscow to Yalta celebrating its 180th anniversary
© Sergei Malgavko/TASS The 'Flamboyant' landscape object is being burned as part of a celebration of the Maslenitsa festival [Pancake Week] in the village of Nikola-Lenivets. The holiday celebrates the end of winter and marks the arrival of spring
© Artyom Geodakyan/TASS Hot air balloons are seen during The Sky of Russia 2018 aeronautics festival
© Alexander Ryumin/TASS A model showcases a wedding goan during a catwalk show for the Speranza Couture spring/summer 2019 collection as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Boats in the village of Yailyu by Lake Teletskoye at the Altai State Nature Biosphere Reserve, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Golden Mountains of Altai"
© Kirill Kukhmar/TASS A souvenir stall selling fur hats in Stary Arbat Street in central Moscow
© Sergei Fadeichev/TASS A diver feeding a ray fish at Okeanskaya Bezdna [Oceanic Abyss], a section of the Primorsky Aquarium of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Russky Island
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS