Photos Of The Week #16

An Armenian woman confronts a line of riot police blocking Yerevan's Mashtots avenue: "I'm a journalist but before I'm a journalist I'm a citizen, and before you are police you are all citizens of Armenia!" (RFE/RL /Amos Chapple)

An aircraft mechanic assists to park the Embraer-175 airplane inside a hangar at the airport outside Minsk. (AFP/Maksim Malinovsky)

The milky way and meteors of the April Lyrids annual meteor shower are seen in the night sky over Burg auf Fehmarn on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, northern Germany, on April 20. (AFP/dpa/Daniel Reinhardt)

Thousands took to the streets of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on April 20 for an eighth-straight day to protest the election of former President Serzh Sarkisian as prime minister. Here, 6-year-old Lucine Burtoyan said to a police officer guarding the government building: "Come with us. Why are you with [Sarkisian]? Why aren’t you with your people?" (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)

Almost 200 people were arrested in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on April 20 as protests continued against the election of Serzh Sarkisian, the former president, as prime minister. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)

Workers adjust lanterns for the upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 22 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

More than 100 protesters were detained in downtown Yerevan after scuffles with riot police that had cordoned off a major government building on April 19 -- the seventh day of street protests against the election of longtime former President Serzh Sarkisian as prime minister. (Amos Chapple/RFE/RL)

A patrol boat is seen through fog along the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Utah Jazz forward Jonas Jerebko (left) goes to the basket against Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jerami Grant (right) in the first half of the NBA Western Conference first-round playoffs in Oklahoma City. (epa-EFE/Larry W. Smith)

A sandstorm obstructs visibility in Yazd, Iran. (Matthias Schmidt via Reuters)

Afghan National Army soldiers marching during a training exercise for a graduation ceremony at a training center in Herat Province. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)

A boy sits in a chair along a damaged street at the city of Douma near Damascus, Syria. (Reuters/Ali Hashisho)

A girl ride swings along a roadside in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the center of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, after lawmakers elected Serzh Sarkisian prime minister, cementing his continued dominance of power. (Amos Chapple/RFE/RL)

People react as they look at a six-story building (unseen) that began to unexpectedly collapse during an overhaul in the center of Moscow. There were no victims as workers and residents of nearby apartment houses were evacuated. (epa-EFE/Maksim Shipenkov)

A woman gestures as Armenian special police forces block a street during an opposition rally in central Yerevan on April 16. Thousands of people rallied against a move by former President Serzh Sarkisian to maintain what they see as a chokehold on power after he became prime minister. (AFP/Karen Minasian)

Detained Belarusian model Anastasia Vashukevich, known by her pen name Nastya Rybka, speaks to the media from the back of a police van after leaving a court in Pattaya, Thailand. Vashukevich claims to have revelations about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. She appeared in court on April 17 in a case that has grabbed widespread attention after her cryptic offers. (AFP/Lillian Suwanrumpha)

Riot police practice in front of the new soccer stadium that will host some of the 2018 World Cup matches in St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Models prepare backstage before presenting the creations of Belarusian designer Tatyana Efremova during Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)

A woman kisses a picture of a loved one in a cemetery in the village of Orevichi, inside the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 390 kilometers from Minsk, during Radunitsa, the Russian Orthodox commemoration of the departed. (AFP/ Maksim Malinovsky)