Photos Of The Week #23
Demonstrators turn over a vehicle symbolizing a police car during a protest against police brutality that also called for the resignation of Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, in Kyiv on June 5. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
A Russian Orthodox believer kisses an icon during a church service at the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
An aerial view of the large diesel spill in the Ambarnaya River outside Norilsk in the Russian Arctic taken on June 4. Environmentalists say the spill, which took place on May 29, is the worst such accident ever to occur in the Arctic region. (AFP/ © 2020 Planet Labs Inc)
Hungarian folk dancers take part in a World War II memorial event on Heroes Square in Budapest on June 4. (AFP/Ferenc Isza)
Bees fly in and out of hives near a rapeseed field on the outskirts of Minsk. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
A woman wearing a protective face mask sells ice cream in downtown Moscow on June 4. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
Pakistani laborers cut logs at a timber market in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
A medical worker in a protective suit walks in the mortuary of a hospital in Skopje. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
A girl feeds pigeons in Sarajevo. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
The Ambarnaya River, outside the Russian industrial city of Norilsk in Siberia, is colored red on June 3 following a massive diesel spill in late May. (AFP)
A passenger is seen from the window of a bus in Karachi after the Pakistani provincial government in Sindh started easing lockdown restrictions and allowed city public transport to resume. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
Men watch people playing a traditional Afghan rope game called dora in a field in a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar Province, despite the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The Taliban boasted of its readiness to fight the virus when it first reached Afghanistan, but now the insurgents are struggling to curb its spread in their strongholds. (AFP/Javed Tanveer)
Cyclists stand in front of a 30-meter monument in Ashgabat honoring cycling, which has become an important component of state propaganda in Turkmenistan that promotes a healthy lifestyle. Thousands of tracksuit-wearing officials were brought along for a ride on June 3 as President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov spearheaded a parade to mark World Bicycle Day. (AFP/Igor Sasin)
Medical workers carry a patient at an infectious diseases hospital where patients with the coronavirus are treated in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Supporters of the Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party scuffle with police while parliament is holding an extraordinary session to elect the new prime minister in Pristina on June 3. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
A view shows a railway bridge across the Kola River that collapsed after its foundations were washed away by rapidly melting snow and strong flows of water, near Murmansk, on June 3. (TASS/Lev Fedoseyev)
Parishioners observing social-distancing guidelines cross themselves as they attend service at the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow on June 2. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlyanichenko)
A woman walks in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
A paramedic wearing a protective suit inspects a patient in the Belarusian village of Novaya Obol, some 70 kilometers outside Vitebsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
Kyrgyz boys ride scooters on International Children's Day in central Bishkek on June 1. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
A Russian honor guard on duty in heavy rain at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
A worker wearing a face mask at the construction site of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline near the village of Kamenovo, Bulgaria. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)
Sunday Confession at the Mother Teresa cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)