Photos Of The Week No. 8
Kazakh police detain a man during a protest denouncing what opposition supporters called political repression in Almaty on February 28. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
Supporters of Serhiy Sternenko, a Ukrainian civil rights activist and former leader of the far-right radical group Right Sector in the southern city of Odesa, hold a rally outside the presidential administration after a court in Kyiv sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison on February 2. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Two young women dance on an embankment of the Moskva River in Moscow. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)
A snow-covered church in the town of Nikel in Russia's Murmansk region (Reuters/Yevgenia Novozhenina)
Russian diplomats and family members leave North Korea and head home to Russia using a hand-pushed rail trolley due to Pyongyang's coronavirus restrictions, near Khasan, in the Primorye region. (epa-EFE)
Lightning illuminates the sky during a rainy thunderstorm in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
People enjoy a heavy snowfall in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on February 25. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
Pedestrians are silhouetted as they walk on the street during a sunny day in central Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
An aerial photo of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Drina River whose local ecosystem is being threatened by tons of accumulated garbage. (AP/Kemal Sofic)
A Kyrgyz man rides a horse holding a golden eagle during a hunting festival in a small mountain village about 250 kilometers southeast of Bishkek. (AP/Vladimir Voronin)
A ballerina dances on the frozen Batareinaya Bay of the Gulf of Finland in Russia's Leningrad region. (TASS/Alexander Sokolov)
A supporter of Nika Melia waves a Georgian national flag during a rally on February 24 outside the prison where the arrested opposition leader is being detained. (Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze)
A Russian woman stands with a horse next to graffiti during celebrations of the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Vladivostok on February 23. (Reuters/Yuri Maltsev)
Protesters clash with police near the presidential offices in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, following the controversial conviction of an Odesan anti-government activist on weapons and robbery charges. (RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
Smoke rises from the chimney of a house on a frosty winter day in the town of Tara in Russia's Omsk region. (Reuters/Aleksei Malgavko)
An Afghan woman walks in heavy fog in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
Police officers confront participants in an opposition march held by the Homeland Salvation Movement as activists demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's resignation over his handling of the war over Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan. (TASS/Photolure/Hayk Baghdasarian)
Pakistani boys collect recyclable waste from garbage dumps on a roadside in Peshawar. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)
An elderly woman begs on a street during snowfall in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)
Armenian police stand guard outside the government office during an opposition rally to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Yerevan on February 20. (Reuters/Artyom Mikryukov)