Week in Pictures: May 2nd – 8th 2011

The week’s best photography

<p>Russian soldiers wait for instructions during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on April 26, 2011.  Russia celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)</p>

Russian soldiers wait for instructions during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on April 26, 2011. Russia celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

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