Photos Of The Week No. 11

Military personnel of Bulgaria's 101st Alpine Regiment take part in an exercise in the Rhodope Mountains, near Smolyan. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)

Fans stand in front of the Kul Sharif mosque during a Russian football championship match between the teams Rubin Kazan and FC Khimki, in Kazan. (TASS)

Mourners prepare to bury the remains of a person who died from complications related to COVID-19 at a cemetery in Vlakovo, Bosnia. Hospitals and the morgue in the capital, Sarajevo, are overwhelmed as dozens of people died in the past few days after a sharp rise in virus infections was recorded throughout the country. (AP)

Serbian medical workers wait for patients to receive a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Belgrade Fair Center, which has been turned into a mass vaccination center.  (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)​

A bird stands on a chunk of ice on the Moskva River in Moscow. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)

Enthusiasts fix a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin to a balloon during a celebration of the anniversary of Crimea's annexation from Ukraine in 2014 in Sevastopol on March 18. (AP)

A young Pakistani girl reacts while having a nasal swab sample taken by a health worker at a COVID-19 testing facility in a hospital in Karachi. (AP/Fareed Khan)

A boy looks out of a shattered window in the aftermath of a bomb explosion in Kabul on March 18. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)

An Iranian girl wearing a costume inspired in the fictional folklore character Hajji Firuz dances in Tehran on March 17, as Iranians prepare to celebrate Norouz, the Iranian new year. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Two women travel by train on the outskirts of Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

An Iranian releases a lantern in Tehran on March 16 during the Wednesday Fire feast, or Chaharshanbeh Soori, held annually on the last Wednesday eve before the spring holiday of Norouz. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

A child receives a measles vaccine at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

A Hazara farmer plows a field with oxen near the ruins of the historic Afghan city of Shahr-e Zuhak on the outskirts of Bamiyan. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

A worker cleans a classroom in a school building after all educational institutions closed in Peshawar, Pakistan amid an increase in COVID-19 cases. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)

Athletes train in the Muay Thai form of martial arts atop the hills of Salsal Buddha, the site of the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

A long-exposure photo shows a Bulgarian child spinning a ball of fire near a bonfire during rituals in celebration of Mesni Zagovezni (Shrovetide) in the village of Lozen, near Sofia, on March 14. (AP/Valentina Petrova)

Two police officers escort a woman in a carnival costume in Moscow. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)

People burn a straw-wood-and-cloth effigy representing Mother Winter close to the village of Gzhel outside Moscow on March 14, as the part of celebration of Maslenitsa or Shrovetide, a farewell ceremony to winter. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)