RIAN.Ru presents a photo review of the main events of April 17-23, 2010 in its Weekend project Seven days in photographs.
Thousands of people came to pay their last respect to those people who died in a plane crash near Smolensk in western Russia.
As well as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the presidents of Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Georgia were among the mourners.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on April 20 addressed the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma.
A break-through in Russian-Ukrainian relations happened on Wednesday, April 21. Ukraine received a discount on gas prices and extended the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s presence in Crimea.
The toppled Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled Kyrgyzstan last week and is now in Belarus, denied the validity of his resignation.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched by NASA in February, has returned its first high definition images of the sun.
