Vladimir Putin kicks the ball in Red Square, Germany crashes out of World Cup, St. Petersburg hosts the Scarlet Sails festival and other photographs of the week. The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
This week in photos: Putin’s kickoff, Team Germany’s rout and St Petersburg’s ruby sails
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
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Fireworks light up the sky over the Admiralty building, the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Hermitage during festivities marking school graduation in St. Petersburg, June 24
© REUTERS/Anton Vaganov Supporters of Spain pose ahead of Group B match between Spain and Morocco in Kaliningrad, June 25. The teams drew 2-2
© EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK Russia's President Vladimir Putin launches a football into the air with a solid kick while visiting the 2018 FIFA World Cup Football Park in Red Square, June 28
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS Russia's goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev concedes a goal in Group A match between Russia and Uruguay at Samara Arena, June 25. Uruguay won 3-0
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS German fans react with disappointment as they watch the World Cup Group F - South Korea vs Germany match at a public viewing area at Brandenburg Gate, June 28. Germany lost 2-0
© REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel is giving a T-shirt of Belgium national football team to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May during EU summit in Brussels, June 28
© Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images A black-capped squirrel monkey looks into a broadcast crews camera and lens at London Zoo in London, June 27
© REUTERS/Toby Melville Widow of US Army First Lieutenant Garlin Conner, Pauline Conner kisses US President Donald J. Trump after being presented with the Medal of Honor for her late husband who was awarded the nation's highest military decoration for his actions on January 24, 1945; during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 26. Then-US Army First Lieutenant Garlin Conner volunarily left a position of relative safety to direct friendly artillery shells, which drove back an enemy assault and saved numerous American lives
© EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS Actors Kit Harington and Rose Leslie react as they leave after their wedding ceremony, at Rayne Church, Kirkton of Rayne in Aberdeenshire, June 23. Former "Game of Thrones" co-stars married near the bride's family castle in Scotland
© Jane Barlow/PA via AP Supporters of Turkey's President and ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan light flares during celebrations outside the party headquarters in Istanbul, June 24. Erdogan won in the presidential race, avoiding a second-round runoff vote
© AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, Archive A man jumps over a bonfire during a summer solstice celebration in the village of Okunevo, June 24
© Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS Zsa Zsa, an English Bulldog from Minnesota , wins the 2018 Worlds Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, California, June 23
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