Photos of the week: Oct. 24 - Oct. 28

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte viewing Rembrandt's "Danae" at St. Petersburg's Hermitage on Friday. In 1985, a museum-goer, later deemed insane, slashed the painting with a knife and threw acid on it. It's since been restored.

President Dmitry Medvedev giving flowers to Armenian first lady Rita Sargsyan in the Kremlin on Monday. President Serzh Sargsyan and he discussed Nagorno-Karabakh and bilateral trade, which will exceed $1 billion this year.

A Savyolovsky market worker sporting a jacket with the market's colorful rebranding, in contrast to tennis star Rafael Nadal's gray, tortured face.

The ruling tandem eating sunflower seeds in Stavropol on Tuesday. Putin said export duties would be raised if grain exports reach 25 million tons.

Sporting their Halloween costumes a little early this year, two men don "Scream" masks at metro Barrikadnaya.

A man smoking beside a "scarecrow" police car meant to deter drivers from violating traffic rules on Rizhskoye Shosse in Mozhaisk, west of Moscow. The graffiti reads, "Life to thieves," a play on the usual "Death to thieves."