Seven days in photographs. May 21-27, 2011

Riot police dispersed a five-day central Tbilisi protest against President Mikheil Saakashvili's rule in the early hours of Thursday. The Interior Ministry said two people, one a former and the other a serving police officer, were killed after being run over by a motorized convoy of opposition leaders fleeing the scene. A total of 37 people remain hospitalized, eight of them police officers.

Georgia’s riot police used water cannons, rubber bullets and teargas to disperse opposition activists who gathered on the city's main street in an attempt to prevent an Independence Day military parade.

The G8 summit opened in Deauville on Thursday. The leaders of the world’s eight richest counties discussed North African revolutions, Middle East settlement, counterterrorism operations and nuclear security.

Russian first lady Svetlana Medvedev and French first lady Carla Bruni in Deuville.

The Moscow City Court ruled on Tuesday that jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev would be set free in 2016 after the court cut their total sentence from 14 to 13 years each.

Belarus's National Bank on Monday devalued the national currency by over 30 percent. The Belarusian ruble/dollar rate for May 24 was set at 4,930 against 3,155 on May 23, which is a devaluation of 36 percent.

Festivities dedicated to the memory of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, who created the Glagolitic alphabet to translate the Bible and other Christian writings into Old Church Slavonic, were held in Moscow between May 18-31.

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science says that over 700,000 high school graduates and almost a million ninth graders attended the Final Bell ceremonies this year.