Vladimir Putin responds to questions at his annual televised Q&A marathon, Emmanuel Macron casts his ballot in the first round of France's legislative elections, a massive fire engulfs a London tower block and other photographs from this week's issue of TASS' The World in Pictures photo gallery.
This week in photos: Putin's Q&A session, Macron's vote and London's towering inferno
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
Photo {{sliderIndex+1}} from 15
Russia's President Vladimir Putin talks to the media after his annual televised question-and-answer session at Moscow's Gostiny Dvor, June 15
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS Participants in a flower festival marking Russia Day, a national holiday celebrated on June 12, outside the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Ostrovsky Square, St. Petersburg, June 12
© Peter Kovalev/TASS Participants of the 4th Sevastopol charity officers' ball in Mikhailovskaya Coastal Battery square, June 12
© Valeriy Sharifulin/TASS French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron leave a polling booth as they vote in the first round of the two-stage legislative elections, in Le Touquet, France, June 11
© AP Photo/Christophe Petit-Tesson Participants of the Russian Federation President’s Cup race at the Central Moscow Hippodrome, Russia, June 11
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS The flagship of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet, Varyag missile cruiser, enters the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok after a two-and-a-half-month long distance voyage, Russia, June 14
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Firemen examine the scorched facade of the Grenfell Tower after a massive fire raced through the 24-storey high-rise apartment building in west London, June 15
© AP Photo/Frank Augstein Malaysian Muslim women chats during Koran reciting programme at a mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 11
© EPA/AHMAD YUSNI A great white pelican cools off in a pond in the zoo of Dresden, Germany, June 12
© EPA/FILIP SINGER A person participates in a journalists' protest asking for justice in recent attacks on journalists in Mexico City, Mexico, June 15
© EPA/SASHENKA GUTIERREZ A Sukhoi Su-35S multirole fighter aircraft of a fighter aviation regiment performs a training flight at the Centralnaya Uglovaya airfield, Russia, June 15
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Siberian tigress Lapa with her cubs in an enclosure at the Novosibirsk Zoo, Russia, June 10
© Kirill Kukhmar/TASS A policeman investigates at the Little Mermaid statue that is covered with blue and white paint in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 14
© EPA/Bax Lindhardt An aerial view of an interchange on the M11 toll motorway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russia, June 14
© Peter Kovalev/TASS A food vender walks under flying kites on Tam Thanh beach during an International Kite Festival in Quang Nam province, Vietnam, June 11
© AP Photo/Hau Dinh