Photos Of The Week No. 25

Birds come to rest at a special-purpose section of a graveyard for victims of COVID-19 on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 25. 

St. Petersburg's landmark weather vane, fixed atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, is silhouetted against the sun.

A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination unit set up at a former TikTok studio in the MEGA Park mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Men at a landfill in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.

A thick fog shrouds a cable-stayed bridge across the Zolotoy Rog [Golden Horn] Bay in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. 

A youth rides a horse on Clifton beach in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan.

People carry candles past a patriotic monument illuminated in red during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), Russia. 

Afghan militiamen join their country's defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul in a show of solidarity against the Taliban. 

A woman sits by the shore next to the fence of a temporary hospital for patients infected with the COVID-19 in St. Petersburg. 

A man cools himself at a water fountain in Moscow. 

Villagers walk around a bonfire celebrating the summer solstice in Okunevo, some 200 kilometers northeast of Omsk in Siberia.

Ears of wheat at sunset in a field in Kazakhstan's Almaty region. 

A Russian ship at the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg.

A man stands next to a car damaged by flooding after heavy rainfall in Yalta, Ukraine. 

A person celebrates the summer solstice at the Kokino megalithic observatory near the city of Kumanovo in North Macedonia on June 21. 

Couples dance the samba as smoke rises from a burning pyrotechnics warehouse in Moscow.

Women take part in a yoga session in Lahore, Pakistan. 

A supporter of Ebrahim Raisi displays his portrait during a rally in Tehran to celebrate his Iranian presidential election victory.