Photos Of The Week #51

Russian and Czech ice hockey players take part in a goalmouth scramble during their Euro Hockey Tour match in Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)

Afghan policemen inspect the site of a deadly car bombing in Kabul on December 20. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

A man walks past Christmas decorations near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in central Moscow on December 18. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)

A Soyuz rocket booster carrying British satellites blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur Region. (Reuters)

A woman carries her child through early morning fog and pollution in the Fushe Kosove district of the Kosovar capital, Pristina. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)

Afghans who were displaced from volatile areas pose for a photograph outside their temporary shelters in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)

Mourners attend the funeral of a man who died from COVID-19 at a cemetery in the outskirts of the city of Ghaemshahr in northern Iran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

An ambulance is seen under Christmas and New Year's decorations during a nighttime curfew imposed by the Georgian government amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic in Tbilisi. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)

A man sells dried nuts and fruit at his shop in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)

Moldovan law enforcement officers block a tractor during a rally of farmers at a rally demanding government support and financial aid in Chisinau. (Reuters/Stringer)​

Kazakhs hold national flags near the Monument of Independence during a gathering marking Independence Day in Almaty on December 16. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev )

Ukrainian police restrain a demonstrator during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses in Kyiv on December 15. (epa-EFE/Serhiy Dolzhenko)

People walk near huge light sculptures of polar bears installed as part of decoration for the New Year and Christmas holidays in a district of Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)

A child dressed as Santa Claus takes part in a charity event in Pristina to raise funds for families in need in Kosovo, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

A supporter of the Pakistan Democratic Movement, an alliance of political opposition parties, chants slogans as he attends an anti-government rally in Lahore on December 13. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

A young demonstrator looks out of a dark garage where he is hiding from the police during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk on December 13. Crowds of people took to the streets of the Belarusian capital in a traditional weekly protest against the country's authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (AP)

Wrestler Teddy Sheedi (left) fights his opponent during the traditional Sindhi Malakhra wrestling in Karachi, Pakistan. A Malakhra match begins with both wrestlers tying a twisted cloth around the opponent's waist. Each one then holds onto the opponent's waist cloth and tries to throw him to the ground. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)

A woman shops for fish at a market in freezing conditions of minus 43 degrees Celsius in the city of Yakutsk, Yakhutia. Located in Russia's Far East, Yakutia is known for its severe climate. (TASS/Yevgeny Sofroneyev)