Photos Of The Week No. 1
Kazakh police detain a man protesting against the ruling party in Almaty during local and parliamentary elections on January 10. (RFE/RL /Petr Trotsenko)
People and auto rickshaws are silhouetted on vehicles' headlights on a dark street during widespread power outages in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on January 10. (AP/Anjum Naveed)
A young man plays the violin as others, all wearing traditional dress, sing during Orthodox Christmas celebrations in western Ukraine. (AP/Yevgeniy Maloletka)
A man outside Stepanakert herds his cows near a rocket case left behind after the recent military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. (Reuters/Artem Mikryukov)
An actor dressed as Santa Claus and wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus speaks with a boy in a shopping mall in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AFP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A Kyrgyz woman walks along a road near Bishkek with a campaign poster for presidential candidate Sadyr Japarov in the background. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
An Orthodox believer lights candles during a Christmas mass outside the central Orthodox Church of Saint Clement in Skopje, North Macedonia, on January 7. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
Five-day-old lion cubs play at the Taigan safari park in Belogorsk, Crimea. (ReutersAlexey Pavlishak)
This aerial photo shows plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels, and other garbage clogging the Drina River near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad on January 5. Further upstream, the Drina tributaries in Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia are carrying even more waste after the swollen rivers surged over the the landfills by their banks. The Balkan nations have poor waste management and tons of garbage routinely end up in rivers. (AP/Eldar Emric)
Starlings near the village of Mezhvodnoye in Crimea (TASS/Sergei Malgavko)
This aerial view taken on January 5 shows the ruins of the village of Zangilan in an area recaptured by Azerbaijan in October 2020 during a six-week war with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)
A student takes part in the 2021 Run of Promises in Russia. Every year, on January 1, people around the world rally around the I Love Running flag and take part in a race with bib or pieces of paper with their personal promises or resolutions written on them. (TASS/Kirill Kukhmar)
An Iraqi cleric walks on a U.S. flag painted on the ground as people gather to pay respects by the grave of slain commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in the holy city of Najaf on January 4, marking the first anniversary of his killing alongside Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike. (AFP/Ali Najafi)
Members of Pakistan's Shi'ite Hazara community gather around coffins of victims during a protest on January 4 after 11 members of the minority were killed by unknown gunmen in the Mach area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province. (epa-EFE/Fayyaz Ahmed)
New Year's celebrations are held near St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv on January 1. (AP/Efrem Lukatskiy)
Refugees and migrants in Bosnia sit around a fire in temporary housing at the burned-out Lipa camp in cold weather on January 3. (RFE/RL/Dzemal Catic)