Photos of the Week, Dec. 4-10

On Saturday, a Tu-154 headed for Dagestan made an emergency landing near Domodedovo Airport, killing two people. Here, people gathering near the broken fuselage in an eyewitness photo.

The holiday season pressed on. Tourists strolling across on Red Square on Sunday morning, as St. Basil's and a New Year's tree tower in the background.

The star on a Kremlin tower pointing in a cold sky full of steam Monday.

U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle giving an interview to The Moscow Times in his embassy office Tuesday. He denounced the WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables, including ones from Moscow, as "a crime."

A worker in a yellow cherrypicker putting the final touches on the New Year's tree at the White Square office center near metro Belorusskaya.

Ice breaking in the Moscow River on Tuesday evening as the Kremlin's towers, walls and cathedrals stand at the river's edge.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko reaching over and gripping the forearm of his Russian counterpart at a summit of the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, in the Kremlin, on Dec. 9.

Working Moscow, Take 1. A woman wearing the uniform of the militsia, whose name rests under her ponytail, walking near Manezh Square on a snowy Thursday.

Working Moscow, Take 3. An honor guard keeping watch at the eternal flame and war memorial at Alexandrovsky Garden on Thursday. The Kremlin's wall rises in background.

Working Moscow, Take 3. Street cleaners taking a chat break on Tverskaya Ulitsa in between shovelfulls of snow.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plinked out a few notes of "Blueberry Hill" and then sang the tune at a Friday event for children's charity in St. Petersburg.