Photos of the Week: Sept. 19-25, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and Jean-Claude Killy, the chairman of IOC coordination commission for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, left, looking at a West Asian leopard as they visit the National Park in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009. As part of an ecological program launched in preparation for Sochi 2014, the park will breed the big cats and later release them back into the wild. (Click for related story.)

President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva being welcomed by school children in Kehrsatz near Bern, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Medvedev is the first Russian president to make an official state visit to Switzerland.

Russia's Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, top, pressuring Azerbaijan's Khetag Gazyumov in the men's 96-kilogram freestyle gold medal match at the World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (Click for related photo gallery.)

WBA heavyweight world boxing champion Nikolai Valuyev, left, from Russia, and challenger David Haye, right, from Great Britain posing with beers during a press conference in Nuremberg, Germany on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Their fight in Nuremberg is scheduled for Nov. 7, 2009.

Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky's oil on canvas work "Succession," painted April 1935, is seen in this undated handout picture. Nearly 100 works by Kandinsky are being exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City as it launched a retrospective of the abstract artist last week as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.

Siberian bear cubs Misha and Masha, a gift from President Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to the Swiss capital, settling in at the Bern zoo Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. The president's wife, Svetlana Medvedeva, presented the playful pair to the zoo.

Protesters wearing masks of U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton symbolically poison flowers in Moscow, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in a protest to denounce last week's decision by Obama to scrap a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. The protesters said they consider the decision a cunning trick directed at Russia.

President Dmitry Medvedev preparing to speak during the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York City Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev ending his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are seen Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in New York. Medvedev on Thursday discussed the possibility of sanctions against Iran with Obama in a stark change of tone from Russia's previous stance on the issue. (Click for related story.)

Workers restoring plaques on a section of the Kremlin wall near Lenin's tomb in Red Square that contains the remains of members of the Soviet ruling elite. A temporary tent is used to shield the restoration work from rain.

A waiter coming out of the renamed Sovetskaya restaurant on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. The eatery, previously named Antisovetskaya, came under fire last week from Oleg Mitvol, a Moscow city prefect who claimed that the name was "insulting to the history of our country." The name was changed on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. (Click for related story.)

Cars driving down Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, which was World Carfree Day. Many city officials marked the day by taking public transportation.

A squad of police officers taking a stroll on Red Square on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, left, is seen talking with an unidentified woman during a boat trip on the East River in New York. Medvedeva is accompanying her husband on a working visit to the United States.

A couple standing near billboards in central Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, reminding voters about City Duma elections.

President Dmitry Medvedev, second right, and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva, left, being greeted by U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as they arrive at the Phipps Conservatory for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.