Photos Of The Week #45

Russian conscripts depart for national military service in Novosibirsk. (TASS/Kirill Kukhmar)

A Romanian modern-dance artist performs as part of a multimedia project in Bucharest, (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)

Russian activist Pavel Krisevich poses on a cross outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow as part of a protest to draw attention to what organizers describe as the FSB's involvement in stifling dissent. (AP/George Markov) 

Young Ukrainian military cadets take part in a ceremony to receive their shoulder insignia on November 6. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

An Iranian boy wearing a protective face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus rides a zip line at an amusement park in Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Vendors selling cotton candy wait for customers in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Kosovar artist Alkent Pozhegu works on the final touches of an image made with grain and seed, depicting Joe Biden, the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, in the town of Gjakova. (AFP/Armend Nimani)​

The moon is reflected on the waters of the Volga River, near the Nikolsky Bridge in the Russian town of Kineshma. (TASS/Vladimir Smirnov)

A photo taken through the broken windshield of a car damaged by shelling shows an 88-year-old woman standing near her house in Stepanakert, the main city of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP)

A demonstrator is taken away by police officers during a rally organized by nationalists and far-right activists on Russia's National Unity Day in Moscow on November 4. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

A man talks on his phone inside a damaged room at Kabul University following a deadly attack on November 3. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the university left many students dead and wounded. The assault sparked an hours-long gun battle. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Laborers work at an aluminum melting factory in Afghanistan's Herat Province (RFE/RL/Sapoor Saber)

A man removes glass from a window that was allegedly damaged by recent shelling during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the city of Tartar, Azerbaijan. (Reuters/Aziz Karimov)

A priest conducts a baptism ceremony for ethnic Armenian soldiers in a military camp near the front line of the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. (TASS/Stanislav Krasnilkov)

People assist a woman after she collided with a Belarusian law enforcement officer during a rally of opposition supporters to reject the presidential election results in Minsk on November 1. (Reuters)

A man fishes near Troitsky Bridge on a foggy morning in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

A rocket fragment sticks out of a grave in Stepanakert, the main city in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, amid fighting between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces on November 1. (TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov)

An open casket with the body of Bishop Amfilohije, the popular head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, is seen during the liturgy and funeral in the main temple in the capital, Podgorica, on November 1. (AP/Risto Bozovic)

A waitress wearing a face mask serves cakes and sweets in a street cafe in downtown Moscow amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Russia has the fourth-highest virus caseload in the world, with a total of 1,636,781 registered infections and 28,235 deaths. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)

A woman wearing a face mask and gloves casts her ballot at a polling station during Moldova's presidential election in Chisinau on November 1. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)