Photos Of The Week #51

Muslims pray outside the shrine of a Sufi saint in Srinagar, Kashmir on December 21.(Reuters/Danish Ismail)  

Ukrainian nationalists burn smoke grenades at a rally in downtown Lviv on December 21. (EPA/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
 

Acehnese Muslims take part in a protest rally in support of Muslims in China, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (epa-EFE/Hotli Simanjuntak)

Security hold opposition lawmaker Endri Hasa (foreground center) as he throws an egg at Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama (background left) during a debate in parliament in Tirana on December 20. (AP)

Ukrainian members of parliament scuffle during a session in Kyiv on December 20. (AFP/Oleksandr Kosmach)

The new Russian icebreaker ship Andrei Vilkitsky makes its way on the Neva River. (TASS/Anton Vaganov)

People dressed as Santa Claus stand next to Christmas lights in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev )

A man drinks coffee in front of screens broadcasting Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, at a bar in Moscow on December 20. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)

The parachute of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed with Expedition 57 crew members in a remote area of Kazakhstan on December 20, 2018. Three astronauts landed back on Earth after a troubled stint on the ISS marred by an air leak and the failure of a rocket set to bring new crew members. (AFP/NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Lamplighter Jan Tater lights an antique gas lamp on Charles Bridge in Prague, (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)

A man with a bag walks under a seasonal New Year Tree on a winter's day in central Minsk, Belarus. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)

A church stands above a layer of fog in the village of Soshartyan, 115 kilometers northeast of Budapest. (MTI via AP/Peter Komka)

Rare ice formations called "ice flowers" are seen on Lake Valdai in Russia's Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow. (Valday.com/Timofey Shutov)

Giant waves at Shore Acres State Park in Oregon in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. (Wright Aura Photography via Reuters)

A diver wearing a Santa Claus costume swims in a large fish tank during an underwater performance at the Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo. (Reuters/Issei Kato)

Prisoners having a meal in a canteen at the maximum security correctional colony No. 2 in the village of Shara-Gorokhon, Karymsky District, in Russia's Transbaikal region. (TASS/Yevgeny Yepanchintsev)

Free divers pose with a Christmas tree near the surface before diving to place it on the seafloor off the coast of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. (AFP/Ibrahim Chalhoub)​

A frosty sunset is seen through icicles in the village of Peremilovo, 65 kilometers north of Moscow (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The Russian cargo ship Kuzma Minin is shown after she ran aground off the southwestern English coast near Falmouth in Cornwall. Reuters says the 180-meter ship, with 18 Russian crew on board, dragged its anchor in strong winds and then ran aground. There is no cargo on board. (Twitter @Alexandriapesic via Reuters)

A woman walks amid snow-covered trees in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

A man passes by Christmas lights in Belgrade. (epa-EFE/Srdjan Suki)

A bodybuilder performs during a competition in Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

Anna Donath, vice president of the opposition party Momentum Movement, holds a flare during a protest against a proposed new labor law, billed as the "slave law," in Budapest. (Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)

The Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka speeds down the course during training for the women's World Cup downhill in Val Gardena, Italy. (AP/Alessandro Trovati)

A mother holds her daughter who was injured in an air strike in Kunar Province as she receives medical treatment at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. According to local officials, at least 20 Afghan civilians, including 12 children, were killed in an air strike targeting a Taliban commander. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)

Turkish-backed Syrian fighters train in a camp in the Aleppo countryside in northern Syria.  (AFP/Aref Tammawi)

A woman walks in a tunnel decorated with festive holiday lights in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Pyongyang residents bow before statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during National Memorial Day on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang. North Korea is marking the seventh anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il. (AFP/Kim Won Jin)

Macedonian sex workers carry red umbrellas around the monument of Mother Theresa before a rally to mark the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers in Skopje, Macedonia. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)