Photos of the Week, May 14-18
Indonesian rescue teams flying bodies from the Superjet crash site on Mount Salak after the weather cleared.
Achmad Ibrahim / AP
Guards detaining Yulia Kovpachik, a? member of? the Kiev-based Femen women's rights group, picking up the Euro 2012 football trophy in? Kiev on? Saturday.
Gleb Garanich / Reuters
An employee carrying a pelican to an open-air enclosure for the summer at the Royev Ruchei zoo in Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Thousands of people heading along a boulevard during a writers’ march led by opposition literary activists Sunday.
John Freedman / MT
The Soyuz spacecraft shortly after blasting off Tuesday at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Bill Ingalls / AP
Climbing out of its cool pool on Wednesday, a polar bear at the Moscow Zoo is studied closely by a young girl dressed to match. Temperatures were climbing back up to 27 degrees Celsius as the summer starts to heat up.
Vladimir Filonov / MT
Police detaining protesters at Kudrinskaya Ploshchad late Wednesday. The diminutive opposition leader Ilya Yashin is second left.
Sergey Ponomarev / AP
Protesters playing music Thursday at their encampment on Kudrinskaya Ploshchad as a local councilwoman proposed that the action be classified a festival to avoid a police crackdown. Nevertheless, police officers raided the camp, detaining opposition leaders Ilya Yashin and Yevgenia Chirikova.
Vladimir Filonov / MT