Photos Of The Week No. 2
A bird flies near the 1000-year old Orthodox Monastery of Caves, covered with the first snow of winter in Kyiv on January 15. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
A couple walks toward pigeons on a cold day in Omsk, Russia. (Reuters/Aleksei Malgavko)
Local residents dressed in costumes perform during celebrations for the Malanka traditional holiday, which is celebrated on the day of St. Basil and St. Melania, in the settlement of Krasnoilsk in Ukraine's Chernivtsi region on January 14. (Reuters/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
A woman walks through chunks of ice on the frozen Kapchagai reservoir outside Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
Bulgarian dancers wearing costumes perform a ritual dance with flaming torches during the Kukeri Carnival in the village of Dolna Sekirna on January 13. (AFP/Nikolay Doychinov)
A man carves ice on the frozen Sumka River at the Raifa Virgin Mary Monastery in Tatarstan to prepare an ice hole for believers who will take a dip in the icy waters during the celebration of Epiphany. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)
Costumed revelers take part in the first day of a carnival celebration marking the Orthodox St. Vasilij Day in the village of Vevcani, North Macedonia. The Vevcani carnival is one of the most famous village festivals in the Balkans. It is believed that the custom is over 1,400 years old and based on old pagan beliefs. (epa-EFE/Nake Batev)
A man bathes in an ice hole in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. The temperature in St. Petersburg is minus 15 Celsius. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Afghan female soldiers take a selfie as they attend a training session in Herat. Although Afghan forces have maintained an average of 350,000 male officers for years, the number of women in security bodies remains only a few thousand, mainly due to cultural reasons. Most traditional Afghan families reject the idea of a woman working outside their home, particularly in the security forces. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
The Northern Lights are seen in the sky of Russia's Murmansk region. (TASS/Lev Fedoseyev)
Laborers dismantle old shoes for recycling at a workshop in Karachi, Pakistan. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
Homeless women chat in their hut on a street in the center of Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)
Migrants wait in line to receive food as hundreds of them take shelter in abandoned buildings in Bihac in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina on January 11. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
Father Stephan, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest, wearing a special suit to protect himself against the coronavirus, stands after visiting with COVID-19 patients in the intensive-care unit of an emergency hospital in Lviv in western Ukraine. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man walks past a collapsed road due to heavy floods in the Kosovar village of Sferke. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
Almost 50 Pakistani Hindu minority couples attend their mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
People are silhouetted against vehicle headlights on a dark street during widespread power outages in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistan's national power grid experienced a major breakdown, leaving millions of people in darkness. (AP/Anjum Naveed)
A health worker marks a finger after giving a polio vaccination to a child in Lahore, Pakistan. Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on January 11 launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus walks at a train station in Moscow. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers work at the site of an avalanche in the town of Talnakh. Three people were killed after the avalanche swept through a ski resort outside the Arctic city of Norilsk. (AFP/Irina Yarinskaya)
Local residents look on at floodwater due to heavy rain in the town of Fushe Kosove, Kosovo. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)