Photos Of The Week #44
A woman runs in front of a mural inspired by the coronavirus pandemic in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
The rising sun is pictured outside Sevastopol, Crimea. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)
People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus wait for a bus in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
Buildings are seen as fog blankets the city of Skopje. (Reuters/Ognen Teofilovskithe)
A street is reflected in a window as a baby and his mother prepare to leave Stepanakert amid fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces around the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP)
A woman visits the memorial walls at the Butovo shooting range outside Moscow. The Memory Garden memorial was unveiled and blessed on September 27, 2017, in memory of 20,762 people executed here during Stalin's political terror in 1937-38. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
Men examine a bomb crater near the Holy Savior Cathedral after shelling by Azerbaijani forces in Shushi, outside Stepanakert, in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP)
A medical worker is seen at a makeshift COVID-19 hospital in Belgrade Arena in Belgrade. Serbia is witnessing a rise in coronavirus infections, prompting the government to consider new restrictions. (epa-EFE/Marko Djokovic)
Firefighters gather near near a burned-out car that was hit by shelling during the military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the town of Barda, Azerbaijan. (Reuters/Aziz Karimov)
A young girl takes a selfie with her brother in an illuminated street ahead of celebrations for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, in the Pakistan port city of Karachi on October 28. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
A medical staff member takes off a protective suit after a shift in the "red zone" at Moscow's City Hospital No. 15, which is treating COVID-19 patients. (TASS/Sergei Bobylev)
Russian communist supporters march toward the mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin to lay flowers on the 102nd anniversary of the Komsomol on Red Square in Moscow on October 28. Komsomol was the youth division of the Soviet Communist Party and was established in 1918. It died shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
Blood-stained stretchers are dried in the yard of a military hospital near the front line in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP)
Police officers detain a naked FEMEN activist during a protest at the Polish Embassy in Kyiv against Poland's new, more restrictive abortion laws. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
Elderly people rest in their beds in a center for refugees in Yerevan after fleeing the fierce fighting in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)
An elderly World War II veteran passes through a 3D exhibition in the mobile museum called Victory Train at the Vitebsky railway station in St. Petersburg, Russia. The exhibition consists of eight themed railway cars. Visitors can see the peaceful prewar life and everyday life of besieged Leningrad, find themselves in a real trench during a battle, help wounded soldiers, and participate in the preparation of an offensive operation. The train runs through 13 Russian cities and will finish in Volgograd. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)
A burqa-clad health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Herat, Afghanistan (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
An Afghan man mourns over the body of his brother who was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
A policeman wearing a protective mask patrols a street near an Orthodox church in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
Riot police officers detain students as they take part in a nationwide strike in Minsk on October 26. (AFP/Stringer)
Members of a dance ensemble perform at the closing ceremony for the 2020 Caucasian Peoples' Festival of Sports and Culture in Grozny, Chechnya. (TASS/Yelena Afonina)
People vote during local elections in Kyiv on October 25. (AP/Mikhail Palinchak)