Photos of the Week: Oct. 10-16, 2009

An election worker showing a woman how to vote with an electronic ballot box on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev had a difficult time with the voting system as well.

Circled by unidentified local top officials, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, left, holding his ballot at a polling station during regional elections at his home village, Tsentoroi, in eastern Chechnya, on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, right, visiting a cathedral in Sestroretsk, a town 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of St. Petersburg on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, with Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, second right, and St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko, left.

President Dmitry Medvedev preparing to record "A Conversation with the President," a talk show-style program that screened on Channel One on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. The program focused mainly on economic issues.

A child passing by a painted bench in a park in St. Petersburg, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009.

The tattered remains of two United Russia campaign featuring Mayor Yury Luzhkov and Tatyana Portnova stuck on a Moscow apartment building Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. The weekend elections, swept by ruling party United Russia, caused quite a stir throughout the week, including a mass parliament walkout by State Duma deputies representing three different factions who were unhappy with the vote results.

A pedestrian negotiating one of Moscow's countless puddles Monday.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pausing during a news conference with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao after a signing ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. Russia and China have bolstered their economic ties with new deals worth $3.5 billion.

President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shaking hands during their meeting at the Barvikha residence outside Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. Russia on Tuesday pushed back at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions against Iran if it fails to prove that its nuclear program is peaceful, setting back the Obama administration's desire to present a united front on the matter.

A mourner carrying an icon with the portrait of reputed gangster Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik, or Japanese, at his funeral Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. Ivankov died Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, in a Moscow hospital as a result of complications from a July 28 shooting outside a Moscow restaurant.

A U.S. security officer with a sniffing dog and Russian security officer, background, checking a podium at MGU (Moscow State University) on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed to Russian university students Wednesday that their country's prosperity was dependent on its willingness to cultivate core freedoms, including the freedom to participate in the political process.

MGU Rector Viktor Sadovichny giving flowers to Clinton after her speech Wednesday.

Prisoners of the famous Butyrka prison holding icons as they take part in a religious ceremony marking the Russian Orthodox holiday of The Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary, or Pokrov, in the prison church Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.

Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, left, and Liberal Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky complaining to reporters Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, of violations in last weekend's vote.

A mother sitting with her son by the statue of World War II hero Marshal Georgy Zhukov on Manezh Square.

A vendor by Red Square selling souvenirs, including Cheburashka dolls. Cheburashka, a popular Soviet cartoon icon, was named after the verb cheburakhnutsya, which means "to tumble," when he first clumsily appeared in a crate of oranges.

OMON, riot police officers, detaining participants of an unsanctioned protest against the results of local elections in Moscow, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, with Red Youth Vanguard leader Sergei Udaltsov on the left. Moscow police on Friday broke up a small group of protesters demanding the cancellation of local election results across Russia and detained some of them.

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, foreground right, shaking hands with President Dmitry Medvedev, foreground left, at the Matybulak base in Kazakhstan on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Military maneuvers by a new rapid-reaction force in southern Kazakhstan are part of a Russian bid to bolster the power and status of the seven-nation Collective Security Treaty Organization. Moscow hopes the military bloc will counterbalance NATO.

Nikolai Davydenko of Russia tossing the ball to serve against Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic during their singles quarterfinal match of Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournament at Qizhong Stadium Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Davydenko won 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.