Photos of the Week: Aug. 15-21, 2009

Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia warming up for the women's pole vault qualification during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009. Picture taken with a tilt shift lens.

Destroyed cars are seen at a police station in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. A suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station in Russia's restive North Caucasus Monday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 138 others, officials said.? 

Locals looking at debris from an Su-27 fighter, part of the Russian Knights elite air force flying group, after it crashed near the village of Sosny, near the Zhukovsky air field, just north of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. Two Russian air force fighters collided Sunday as they rehearsed for an air show near Moscow, killing a pilot and sending one jet crashing into houses below, a military official said.? 

Russia's Olga Kaniskina competing during the Women's 20-kilometer race walk during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009.? ? Kaniskina won the gold medal with a time of one hour 28 minutes and nine seconds, ahead of Olive Loughnane of Ireland who won silver and Hong Liu of China who won bronze.? ? ? 

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, heading a meeting in the Emergency Ministry crisis center about the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station, which is pictured on the screen at the background, in Moscow late Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. An accident during repair work at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least 13 workers, while as many as 63 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said.

A general view showing the damaged machine room of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 kilometers (323 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.? 

Maksim Dyldin of Russia, left, and Gil Roberts of the United States competing in the men's 400-meter fifth heat during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.? 

A Mig-29 jet fighter from the Russian aerobatic team Strizhi (Swifts) performing during MAKS (the International Aviation and Space Show) at Zhukovsky airfield southeast of Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.? 

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin touring MAKS (the International Aviation and Space Show) at Zhukovsky airfield southeast of Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Putin opened Russia's largest and most important air show Tuesday, two days after a collision of two air force jets that killed the leader of the elite aerobatic squadron.

President Dmitry Medvedev, right, speaking as his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres listens to him during their press conference after talks at the Bochariv Ruchei presidential residence of Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi? on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Peres said Wednesday that the Kremlin has promised to reconsider the planned delivery of air defense missiles to Iran that Israel and the United States fear could be used to protect Iran's nuclear facilities.

Workers cleaning up an oil spill on? Wednesday,? Aug. 19, 2009,? in the Siberian Yenisei River near the settlement of Mayna.? The spill appeared after the accident on Monday at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station.

The Italian Air Force aerobatic team "Frecce Tricolori" performing during their training flight at the Moscow International Air Show (MAKS) at Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.? 

Sofia Rudyeva, left, Miss Russia 2009, and Julia Dyment, Miss Israel 2009, taking a break during rehearsals for the Miss Universe 2009 competition at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.? 

Bogdan Pishchalnikov of Russia competes in the men's discus throw final during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.

A detained man is seen through the tinted windows of a bus driving into Moscow's high-security Lefortovo prison on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The crew and suspected hijackers of the Arctic Sea cargo ship arrived in Russia on Thursday after a maritime saga peppered with piracy and the hint of espionage. The suspected men were then taken under guard to Lefortovo prison.

A man carrying a cross with the name of a victim of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station on it in the settlement of Cheryomushki, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.? 

Aleksandr Pogorelov celebrating as he competes in the pole vault event in the men's decathlon during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin on Thursday. Pogorelov won the bronze medal in the event.

Anna Chicherova making an attempt in the final of the Women's High Jump during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Chicherova won the silver medal in the event.

Russian Su-27s of the Russian Falcons aerobatic squadron taking part in MAKS (the International Aviation and Space Show) on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 above the Church of St. Michael at a cemetery near the town of Zhukovsky.