Photos of the Week: Sept. 12-18, 2009

Yegor Mekhontsev, of Russia, right, fighting Osmai Acosta Duarte, of Cuba, during a men's 91-kilogram, final heavyweight boxing match at the AIBA World Boxing Championships, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Mekhontsev won the match.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, right, and his visiting Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev clinking glasses during their bilateral meeting in Berdymukhamedov's residence in the Caspian city of Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009.

Greece's Sofoklis Schortsanitis, right, being challenged by Russia's Andrei Vorontsevich during their EuroBasket 2009 group E qualifying round game in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Defending champion Russia shocked previously unbeaten Greece 68-65 to advance in the tournament.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looking at firearms produced by Priborostroyeniye Design Bureau, or KBP, during a visit to the bureau in the city of Tula some 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Moscow on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.

People holding a portrait of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Russian oil giant Yukos, bottom right, and of people they consider political prisoners in Russia during a rally demanding their release in Moscow on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. The top left poster reads, "Freedom to political prisoner Viktor Grekov!" The bottom left poster reads, "The invention of probes against opposition shames the state!"

A visitor at the Central House of Artists walking past a painting of jailed Yukos billionaires Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, part of a two-day exhibit titled "Drawing the Court Process" that opened Tuesday evening, Sept. 15, 2009.

President Dmitry Medvedev walking before his meeting with the so-called Valdai Club of Western political observers in Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, left, and the Kremlin's Spassky Tower in the background, in Moscow on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. Medvedev said on Tuesday that he hasn't ruled out running for a second term in 2012. (Related story)

The Performing Dogs Team of Russia participating in the 4th International Circus Festival in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009.

An interior ministry officer keeping watch at the site of a bomb explosion in the city of Grozny, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. A suicide bomber blew herself up beside a police car in the capital of Russia's southern region of Chechnya on Wednesday, wounding six people. (Related story)

A family strolling through a demonstrational garden by Russky Ogorod, which is showcasing a selection of the many plants and flowers that the company offers for sale, at the All-Russia Exhibition Center on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

People walking between the towering offices of a newly built business center near Belorussky Station on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

The Russian team Rubin Kazan's fans reacting (while a member of the riot police looks on) after their team scored a goal against Dynamo Kiev during their Champions League soccer match at the Valeriy Lobanovskiy stadium in Kiev on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Dynamo won the match 3-1. (Related story)

President Dmitry Medvedev, right, shaking hands with Crown Prince Alois of Lichtenstein at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, seen during his meeting on the Olympics 2014 preparations in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Putin is in Sochi to take part in a ceremony of placing a capsule at the construction site of a new railway terminal in Adler and to hold a meeting on the Olympics 2014 preparations.

A feline sculpture seemingly gazing Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at a municipally protected building in central Moscow that was gutted in a mysterious fire. The 1909 Art Nouveau building on 2nd Brestskaya Ulitsa was apparently being used to illegally house migrant workers when the blaze broke out. (Related story)