Photos Of The Week No. 36
An art object, which consists of seven Russian traditional nesting dolls, also known as "matryoshka" dolls, decorated with the traditional "kokoshnik" headwear and mirrored surface, is on display near a Soviet-era landmark building in Moscow.
Commuters wade through a flooded street after a heavy rain shower in Lahore, Pakistan, on September 10.
A street vendor sells handmade crochet at an entrance to Veliki Kalemegdan Park in Belgrade.
People take part in the sixth Tavrida Art Festival of young artists in the Kapsel Bay near the town of Sudak in southeastern Crimea.
A woman fills in her ballot during early voting in Russia's parliamentary elections, at a deer camp in the Tyumen region on September 9. Parliamentary elections will be held in Russia from September 17-19.
Russian honor guard soldiers perform during the opening ceremony of the Zapad-2021 military exercises at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia.
Kyrgyz and Russian soldiers take part in the Rubezh-2021 joint military drills by the Collective Rapid Response Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance led by Moscow, in Balykchi, some 200 kilometers from Bishkek, on September 9.
Workers paint over graffiti depicting jailed Belarusian opposition politician Maryya Kalesnikava in St. Petersburg, Russia.
A woman passes rescue team members at work in the aftermath of a gas explosion at a nine-story residential building in Noginsk, outside Moscow, on September 8.
Afghans hold placards and shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a protest in Kabul.
People are reflected in a mirror as they walk in Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.
A child peers out from a ruptured area of a tent as other Afghan refugees talk among themselves at a temporary settlement on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan.
Students attend a class bifurcated by a curtain separating males and females to obey Taliban rulings at a private university in Kabul.
British soldiers serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping force (KFOR) take part in a crowd- and riot-control exercise near the town of Gjakova, Kosovo.
Afghan farmers work at a grape farm to make raisins in Kandahar.
Participants perform during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival on Red Square in Moscow.
People walk near Qol Sharif Mosque in Kazan, Russia.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people move past him at a market in Kabul.
Belarusian opposition politician Maryya Kalesnikava, charged with extremism and trying to seize power illegally, forms a heart shape in handcuffs inside a defendants' cage at a court hearing in Minsk. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison on September 6.
A man walks past burning tires at a barricade set up to block access to the historic city of Cetinje during a protest against the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church.