Photos Of The Week No. 14

A woman prepares to take a photo with her smartphone at sunset in Moscow's Red Square. (AP/Aleksandr Zemilianichenko)

Moscow municipal workers clean the Yuri Gagarin monument in preparation for Cosmonaut Day (April 12), which will mark the 60th anniversary of his historic space flight. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)

Georgians cross a bridge during a rally in memory of the victims of the violent Soviet crackdown on protesters demanding independence for the Caucasus republic in 1989, in Tbilisi on April 9. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 9. (AP)

People gather at a beach in Karachi despite Pakistani government restrictions aimed at curbing a third wave of the coronavirus in the country. (epa-EFE/Shazaib Akber)

A maintenance worker climbs to clean Moscow's Monument to the Conquerors of Space on April 7. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)

A Russian Orthodox priest blesses a Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome's launch pad on April 8. (AP/Bill Ingalls)

Vehicles drive along a street in the Russian city of Omsk that has been flooded by melting snow. (TASS/Yevgeny Sofiychuk)

Georgian believers wearing face masks attend a mass marking the Holiday of Annunciation in Tbilisi on April 7. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)

Pakistani transgender people shout slogans during a protest as they demand their rights in Peshawar on April 7. Parliament has approved the country's first law that seeks to guarantee the rights of transsexuals, which states that they must inherit property and prohibits their discrimination in educational and employment institutions. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)

An Afghan balloon vendor riding his bicycle looks for customers in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Women riders wearing Cossack uniforms take part in a parade before an equestrian sports tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

Russian police officers detain the head of the Alliance of Doctors union, Anastasia Vasilyeva, outside a prison after she attempted to seek permission to examine jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny on April 6. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

A Ukrainian serviceman patrols along a frontline position in the country's war-torn Donetsk region. (AFP)

Newly elected Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani gestures after her swearing-in ceremony in the country's parliament in Pristina on April 4. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)

Gulls congregate around an old lighthouse on the Dnieper River at sunset in the town of Vyshgorod close to the capital, Kyiv. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Clergyman and officiants arrive for Easter Mass in the Hungarian city of Esztergom. (epa-EFE/Marton Monus)

A displaced Afghan child takes part in activities at a facility run by the EU’s Children on the Move project and UNICEF in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa-EFE)