Photos Of The Week (March 6-12, 2023)
A sculpture is covered with melting ice at the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Anti-government protester march in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, on March 12.
Members of the Pakistani Hindu community celebrate the Holi festival in Karachi.
A man walks beside a burqa-clad woman riding a donkey along a street in Fayzabad, Afghanistan.
A worker prepares an inflatable decoy of a military vehicle, which could be used to confuse Russian attacks in Ukraine, during a media presentation in Decin in the Czech Republic.
A man waves a Georgian national flag in front of a burning barricade during protests in Tbilisi this week against a controversial 'foreign agent' bill.
A man takes a picture of a mosaic image of a pike at the Nagatinsky Zaton station of the newly opened Big Circle Line of the subway in Moscow.
A man walks outside a destroyed school after a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A demonstrator wears a European Union flag during the aforementioned Georgian protests against a draft law on "foreign agents," which critics say represents an authoritarian shift and could hurt Georgia's bid to join the European Union, in Tbilisi on March 9. On March 10, Georgian lawmakers voted to drop the bill.
A woman holds a coat hanger symbolizing unsafe, illegal abortions as she takes part in a rally to raise awareness of the difficulties of getting an abortion in a state hospital outside the government headquarters in Bucharest on March 8.
Pedestrians walk on a snow-covered street in Kyiv.
People walk inside the newly opened Rizhskaya station of the Big Circle Line of the Moscow Metro.
Protesters brandishing a European Union flag are sprayed by a water cnanon during clashes with riot police near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on March 7 as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital to oppose the controversial "foreign agents" bill.
Women supporters of the religious party Jamaat-e-Islami participate in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 8.
A student of the private Rana University sits beside a poster with a message about the dress code for female students. Universities in Afghanistan reopened on March 6, but only men were allowed to return to class due to a ban on women in higher education imposed by the Taliban.
Children wearing colorful flower necklaces enter the Coral Temple synagogue as Romania's Jewish community celebrates Purim in Bucharest on March 6. The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a traditional carpet factory in Kabul.
Activists pin messages on an object representing a stylized vagina during a protest to mark International Women's Day in in Bucharest on March 8.