120 memorable photos of 2012

In this Sept. 5, 2012, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin waits in a motorized hang glider next to a Siberian white crane, on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia. Putin took part in a flight as part of a program devised by environmentalists to lead the endangered cranes, which were raised in captivity, on their migration to Asia.

Credit: AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service, File