Photos of the Week: August 22-28, 2009

Ingushetia's leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, second right, walking at the airport near Nazran, Ingushetia, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. Yevkurov returned to the southern Russian republic exactly two months after a suicide bomber attacked his convoy, badly wounding him and killing three bodyguards.

Russia's David Baramija takes part in the Mr. Gay Europe 2009 competition in Oslo, Norway, Sunday, Aug.23, 2009.

Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva leaping on her way to winning the silver medal after the Women's long jump during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, left, being presented with a white albino tiger cub, Tigrylia, in Skadovsk, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev visiting an aviation plant in Ulan-Ude, about 4,400 kilometers (2,700 miles) southeast of Moscow in Siberia, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev visiting a kindergarten related to a branch of the G.V. Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy in Ulan Bator, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia presenting Mongolian WWII veterans with Russian awards during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the joint victory of Soviet and Mongolian forces in the battle of Khalkin Gol, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev and Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia, right, taking part in a celebration of the Mongolian folk holiday of Nadam, outside Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.

Russia's Nadezhda Alekhina competing in the Women's triple jump during the Tallinn 2009 athletics meet in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.

Abkhazian militias seen during a commemoration ceremony at the Memorial of Glory in Sukhumi, the capital of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Abkhazia marked the first anniversary of Russia's recognition of its independence.

Abkhazian militias seen during a commemoration ceremony at the Memorial of Glory in Sukhumi, the capital of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Abkhazia marked the first anniversary of Russia's recognition of its independence.

Tsagaanbaatar Hashbaatar of Mongolia celebrating after winning his match against Alim Gadanov of Russia in the under 66-kilogram men's semifinals of the World Judo Championships in Rotterdam, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.

Opposition youth activists holding portraits of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky during an protest in his support in front of the monument to Karl Marx in Moscow, Russia, Thurs., Aug. 27, 2009.? ? 

U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams, left, Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte, center, and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev wearing masks during a training session in the Star City training center outside Moscow, Aug. 27, 2009. Laliberte, also owner of Cirque du Soleil, is on the countdown to become the world's seventh (and Canada's first) space tourist slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS in September. Williams and Surayev will be part of Laliberte's crew.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev greeting each other at Medvedev's residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.? ? 

Dinamo Moscow's Vladimir Granat, left, heads the ball with CSKA Sofia's Yordan Todorov during their Europa League playoff second-leg soccer match in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.

A man is reflected in the floor of a restored vestibule in Kurskaya metro station in Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. A line from the lyrics of the Soviet anthem gloryfying Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and reading "Stalin brought us up on loyalty to the people" and "inspired us to labor and to heroism," was restored just this week to the vestibule of the Kurskaya metro station. The line, written in large letters, had been removed during the "de-Stalinization" of the late 1950, and its restoration reflects Russians' growing nostalgia about the Stalinist period. The lyrics to the Soviet and Russian national anthems were written by Sergei Mikhalkov, who died in a Moscow hospital on Thursday.