Photos Of The Week (January 9-15, 2023)
Kyrgyz riders take part in a kok-boru competition on a cold day in the village of Gornaya Maevka, outside Bishkek. Kok-boru is a traditional Central Asian game similar to polo in which horsemen aim to drop the headless carcass of a goat in their opponents' goal.
Miners and members of Bulgaria's trade unions attend a protest in front of the Bulgarian parliament in Sofia on January 12.
Women wait in an underground shelter in the frontline town of Bakhmut after receiving humanitarian aid as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues.
Residents remove debris and carry belongings out of a shop destroyed by recent shelling in Donetsk in Russian-controlled Ukraine.
A woman carries a child while walking through a field on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Municipal workers sleep on a bus in downtown Moscow as temperatures dropped to minus 15 degrees Celsius on January 11.
Afghan children carry cauliflowers in a field on the outskirts of Jalalabad.
A man crosses a road on a frosty day in the Siberian town of Tara in the Omsk region.
Internally displaced flood-affected children attend a mobile school near a makeshift camp in the flood-hit area of Dera Allah Yar in the Jaffarabad district of Pakistan's Balochistan Province on January 9.
A woman pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with vegetables and a child during a snowfall in Kabul on January 11.
A man swims at the Chayka open-air swimming pool in Moscow amid subzero temperatures.
A vendor sells spices and dried fruits in Karachi, Pakistan.
Afghan children play with a tire along a street in Jalalabad.
Kyrgyz police officers detain RFE/RL journalist Bakytbek Torogeldi who was covering a protest near the government building in Bishkek on January 10.
People walk near an ice copy of St. Basil's Cathedral in downtown Moscow.
A local girl pets a dog on a street in the embattled city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Bosnian Serb police troops march in a parade in East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on January 9 to mark the Day of Republika Srpska, the country's Serb-dominated entity.
An Afghan vendor clears snow from the rooftop of his shop at a market in Mazar-e Sharif.
A man and children ride a motorcycle on their way to school in Lahore, Pakistan.
Ukrainian rescuers work at a site following a Russian missile strike on a local market in the village of Shevchenkove in the Kharkiv region on January 9.
People attend a funeral in a snow-covered village in the Neelum Valley in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Ukrainian refugees and diaspora in the Czech capital, Prague, make trench candles for the military on the front lines of the Russia invasion.
Ukrainian children hold national flags as they stand guard at an improvised checkpoint close to Slovyansk in the Donetsk region.
An Afghan boy carries bread on a tray along a street at a market in Kandahar.
A laborer works at the Shams Madina Shovel Making Factory, the first of its kind in the country, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
A woman feeds pigeons in the old town of Sarajevo.
An image taken with a drone shows the fog around Salgo Castle near Salgotarjan, Hungary.
A man drives past a mural depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on the side of an apartment building in Kashira, Moscow region, Russia.
A view shows an apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on January 14.