Photos Of The Week #28

Moscow police detain demonstrators on July 14 outside Moscow Election Commission headquarters demanding opposition candidates be put on the ballot for upcoming city-council election. (RFE/RL / Anton Sergienko)

A view of a Novosibirsk energy plant's ash dump site -- nicknamed the "Maldives." The Siberian site, whose turquoise lake resembles a tropical paradise, has become a magnet for Instagrammers who risk their health in the toxic water to wow online followers. (AFP/Rostislav Netisov)

Belarus's Vasilina Khandoshka competes in the solo technical artistic swimming event during the 2019 World Championships at Yeomju Gymnasium in Gwangju, China. (AFP/François-Xavier Marit)

A view of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, consecrated on July 12, 1561. (TASS/Mikhail Tereshchenko)

An Iranian woman shows her phone cover depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as she attends a rally to support head scarves in Tehran. (AFP)

A boy doing chin-ups at the Moscow Suvorov Military School. (TASS/Sergei Karpukhin)

Workers check the damage at a gas station after a storm in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece. (AP/Giannis Moisiadis)

A man rides a bicycle among debris after a storm in the village of Nea Plagia in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece on July 11. At least five people were killed, including a Russian man and his son and a woman from Romania, as violent hail storms battered tourist areas in Greece. (AP/Giannis Moisiadis)

A woman harvesting bog blueberries in a field in the Russian village of Krasynichy. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)

A bull jumps in the water during the traditional Bous a la mar (Bulls to the sea) festival at Denia's harbor near Alicante, Spain. (AFP/Jose Jordan)

Players fight for the ball during the annual Shandur Polo Festival at Shandur Pass at an estimated altitude of 3,700 meters in Chitral, Pakistan. (Reuters/Khurram Parvez)

People take a mud bath in Chokrak Lake near the village of Kurortnoye on the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)

A "mozo" or runner is hit by a bull during the nine-day Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. At least four people have been gored so far this year. (epa-EFE/Daniel Fernandez)

A woman speaks on the phone next to damaged cars after a heavy rainfall in Tafalla, Spain. (Reuters/Susana Vera)

Parasols on a beach in Durres, Albania, as a heatwave sweeps through Europe. (AFP/Gent Shkullaku)  

North Korean soldiers wait to pay their respects before the statues of the country's late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung as they mark the 25th anniversary of the latter's death on July 8. (AFP/Kim Won Jin)

Revelers sprint in front of running bulls and steers during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 8. (Reuters/Jon Nazca)

Two men impersonating Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin (right) and Soviet leader Josef Stalin talk to each other while waiting to pose with tourists in Moscow. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlyanichenko) 

Ukrainian girls wearing floral headgear jump in front of an old windmill in Kyiv as they celebrate the traditional pagan holiday of Ivana Kupala. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)