Photos Of The Week #29
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe drive past a cross near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down six years before over rebel-held territory on July 17, 2014, outside the village of Hrabove in Ukraine's Donetsk region. (Reuters/Aleksandr Yermochenko)
Street vendors pull their carts as they wade through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
A believer kisses an icon at the Ganina Yama Monastery after a religious procession in memory of the Russian royal family from the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg to the Ganina Yama Monastery in the Sverdlovsk region. (TASS)
Opposition supporters clash with police during a rally against a bill to limit the Ukrainian language in schools outside the parliament in Kyiv on July 17. A deputy in the party of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has proposed legislation that would reduce the use of Ukrainian language in schools. A large proportion of the population speaks Russian, which was the dominant language in the Soviet Union and the tsarist era. Critics of the bill say it paves the way for the "total Russification of education." (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
A medical specialist treats patients at a temporary hospital in a school gym in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The opening of the medical facility amid the coronavirus pandemic was initiated by local businessmen who currently provide its funding, which includes the purchase of pharmaceuticals, equipment, and the payment of salaries. (Reuters/Vladimir Pirogov)
A local resident surveys the damage caused after rockets landed in a residential area during a visit by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Ghazni on July 16. (epa-EFE/Sayed Mustafa)
After recent fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border between the two countries, an Armenian priest prays for peace outside the village of Movses. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)
A woman casts her vote at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Skopje, North Macedonia. (epa-EFE/Nake Batev)
An elderly woman wearing a protective face mask exits a subway station in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Armenian soldiers take their position on the front line in the Tavush region amid clashes at the border with Azerbaijan on July 14. (AP)
A local Azerbaijani woman shows damage in her house after shelling by Armenian forces in the Tovuz region on July 14. (AP/Ramil Zeynatov)
A Russian municipal worker cleans along an embankment of the Moika River in downtown St. Petersburg. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
A Pakistani laborer pulls his cart while another sits on it during working hours in Rawalpindi. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
The father of Ukrainian serviceman Taras Matviiv, who was reportedly killed in fighting against Russia-backed separatists in the east, reacts during a funeral ceremony for his son at Independence Square in Kyiv. Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another two were wounded as separatists mounted 18 attacks in the Donbas. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
The Nikolo-Vyazhischsky Women's Monastery is seen through fog in the village of Vyazhishchi in the Novgorod region of Russia. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
A worker cleans a building past the Lenin monument in Minsk. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)
A woman dressed as a witch dozes in the absence of clients as she sits on a bench with a placard reading "Photo with Lady Charm. Psychic. Healer. Educator" in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
The comet Neowise is seen behind an Orthodox church west of the Belarusian capital, Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
A woman prays during a protest against the Romanian government's coronavirus measures in Bucharest on July 12. (AFP/Andrei Pungovschi)
A man pushes a bicycle through water as he returns from mowing a field in the town of Cherdyn in Russia's Perm region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)
Students from a Bucharest college throw their hats into the air during a graduation ceremony for the university year of 2020. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)