Seven days in photographs. November 12-18, 2011

The APEC summit opened in the Hawaiian capital, Honolulu, on November 11. The heads of 19 countries took part in the three-day summit.

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© RIA Novosti . Sergei Guneev

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The APEC summit opened in the Hawaiian capital, Honolulu, on November 11. The heads of 19 countries took part in the three-day summit.

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© RIA Novosti . Mikhail Mokrushin

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South Ossetia’s presidential election was held on November 13. The second round of presidential polls will be contested by Emergency Minister Anatoly Bibilov and former Education Minister Alla Dzhioyeva. The second round of voting is scheduled for November 27.

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© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Pesnya

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Former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov testified on Tuesday morning in a police probe into the embezzlement of funds from the Bank of Moscow.

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Russian rescuers found the cargo ship the Kapitan Kuznetsov that went missing in the White Sea on November 15. The ship was taken in tow by an icebreaker, the Dikson. On Friday the cargo ship docked the entrance buoy in the port of Arkhangelsk.

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© RIA Novosti . Kirill Novotarskiy

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Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, went to Syria and met with President Bashar al-Assad.

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© RIA Novosti . Oleg Urusov

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A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-22 piloted spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station