Photos of the Week: Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2009

A visitor looking at "Meeting of Two Sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti)" by Russian artist Leonid Sokov at the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts exhibition in Moscow, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009.

A model presenting a creation by fashion design students during the final of the Russian Silhouette competition in Moscow, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009.

Tourists consulting their maps of the city among the heavy crowd of weekend visitors at Red Square on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2009.

An ad in the metro for a product promising to kill all germs, including swine flu, flanked by a reminder to vote in the Oct. 11 City Duma elections reading that the "City Duma decides how to maintain health, safety standards."

President Dmitry Medvedev, left, holding an ADS, a dual-medium amphibious assault rifle suitable for both surface and underwater combat that was designed for Russian Naval special forces, at the Khmelevka firing ground in Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, during 'West-2009' military exercises.

Russia's Vera Zvonareva reaching out for a ball for a return to her compatriot Alisa Kleybanova during their match at the Pan Pacific Open tournament in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.

Prime Minister Putin, with a hand covering the microphone, sharing a private moment with VTB chief Andrei Kostin at an investment conference Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Click for related story.

CSKA Moscow's Tomas Necid, left, challenging Besiktas' Mert Nobre during their Champions League soccer match at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. CSKA won the match 2-1.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska attending an investment forum in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told participants at the "Russia Calling!" forum, sponsored by state-owned bank VTB, that "we plan to consistently and purposefully reduce state intervention in the economy and, moreover, step up privatization processes."

A group of children keeping themselves warm by playing in Red Square. The Moscow weather bureau has predicted that the first snow of the season could fall in the northern part of the Moscow region on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2009.

A worker giving out pamphlets to passers-by on Triumfalnaya Ploshchad in front of an advertisement for the new Bruce Willis movie "Surrogates." The text at the top of the poster reads, "You are the only one that is real."

From left, French Defense Minister Herve Morin, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov entering a hall for a meeting of the Russian-French security Commission in Moscow on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. Iran's nuclear program was on the agenda at a high-level meeting between Russia and France on security issues.

President Dmitry Medvedev, left, seen visiting the Kurchatov nuclear and scientific research institute in Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. At right is Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, in center is Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin.

A large billboard towering over a statue of Pushkin in Pushkin Square.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visiting a children's gym facility in Vladimir, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

Arkady Gaidamak, pictured in his Moscow home in 2005. On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, a Tel Aviv court charged Gaidamak with money laundering and fraud. He says he will return to Israel to fight the charges. Click for related story.

Maria Sharapova of Russia returning to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during their semifinal match at the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Sharapova won the match, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

President Dmitry Medvedev driving a grain combine harvester at Dubovitskoye grain storage in the Orlov region, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Moscow, on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.