Photos Of The Week No. 10

Artists perform near a Soviet-era monument during a celebration of Maslenitsa, also known as Pancake Week, which is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter, in Yevpatoria, Crimea, on March 14. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)

Women march down the street under umbrellas in the colors of the former white-red-white flag of Belarus to protest against the presidential election results in Minsk on March 11. (AFP)

A woman in Bucharest wears a red veil during a flash mob to raise awareness about increasing domestic violence toward women since the coronavirus pandemic has begun. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

A woman walks her dog during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)

An Iranian artist repairs a statue of a famous Iranian painter, Kamal-ol-molk, at a park in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)

Steam rises from the chimneys of a thermal power plant in Sofia. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev) 

Students celebrate Maslenitsa, a holiday marking the end of winter, in central Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)

A man rides a bike across the frozen Finnish Gulf outside St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)

A Russian man on a Moscow street walks past a colorized version of an iconic photo showing the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag at the end of World War II. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)

Smoke rises from the erupting Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (TASS/Boris Smirnoff)

People watch a three-dimensional projection of the 56 meter-high Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province on March 9. (AFP/Wakil kKohsar)

Activists burn smoke grenades as they protest against corrupt courts and judges in Kyiv on March 9. (epa-EFE/Serhiy Dolzhenko)

Tourists walk in front of several Orthodox churches in the historical center of the town of Rostov Velikiy in Russia's Yaroslavl region. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Russian feminists dance at an event to mark International Women's Day in St. Petersburg on March 8. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Kosovar Albanians in traditional dress and military costumes hold torches during events to mark the 23rd anniversary of the death of Adem Jashari, a Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) commander, in the village of Prekaz on March 7. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)

An aerial view shows a hockey rink after a match on the ice of Lake Baikal, which was organized to draw attention to environmental issues in Russia's Irkutsk region. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)