To remind the passengers that amateur photography at railway stations is allowed without prior approval, Russian Railways decorated the stations in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Vladimir, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod with the Photography Allowed sign. Pictured: security guard at Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow supports the freedom of photography.

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center is photography-friendly. Pictured: the museum and center’s press secretary Dmitry Karmanovsky posing for a picture with Photography Allowed sign.

Owners of restaurants, stores and other establishments where photography is not forbidden are invited to the studio’s Moscow stores to get free Photography Allowed stickers.

Pictured: Yury Podshibyakin, sales assistant at the Dreams Realization Point (right), with a pack of stickers.

M.Video made the decision to allow photography in all its stores. Pictured: PR manager of the company Anton Panteleev places the Photography Allowed sticker on the door of M.Video store on Krasnaya Presnya.

M.Video plans to introduce the stickers to all of its 230 stores operating in 100 Russian cities by the end of July.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov places a Photography Allowed sticker on the door of Art. Lebedev Studio Store and Big Café.