Fortnight in pictures (May 9 - May 25)

Alexei Samokhin (centre), a 90-year-old World War II veteran and companion of the Order of Glory, watches an honour guard from the youth's patriotic organisation marching at a memorial for victims of the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk, Russia on May 7, 2015. The Order of Glory is the Soviet Army's highest acknowledgement for bravery in the face of the enemy. Samokhin, who served as a signaller and a scout, took part in many battles of the Red Army, including Operation Bagration in Belarus and Western Ukraine, battles for Warsaw and for Berlin. The end of World War II found him in Germany on the river Elbe, where he met with US Army soldiers