Photos Of The Week #26
A man cools off in the Arabian Sea amid rising temperatures in Karachi, Pakistan. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
A brig with scarlet sails is seen on the Finnish Gulf coast during a rehearsal for the Scarlet Sails festivities marking school graduation, which will take place on June 27 in St. Petersburg, Russia. This year, the festival will not be held in the city center but on the Finnish Gulf. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no spectators but the event will be broadcast on television. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A member of a local electoral commission talks to a man holding a dog at an outdoor polling place in St. Petersburg during a seven-day vote on constitutional reforms that could pave the way for an extension of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule by 12 years. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
Smoke rises from wildfires near the Berezovka River in southern Russia in this color infrared image supplied by Maxar Technologies. (Maxar Technologies via Reuters)
Rescuers evacuate a local resident and his dog from a flooded area in Ukraine's Chernivtsi region. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said 187 villages had been affected and 5,000 buildings had been damaged by the worst floods the region has seen in a decade. (Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters)
Two women and their dog cool off as water is sprayed on a street in Kyiv during a heatwave. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
A woman prays during a mass near the site where the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared in an apparition in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
A local resident fills in documents near a mobile ballot box outside her house during a seven-day vote on constitutional reforms in the village of Troitskoye in the Moscow region on June 25. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
A girl watches fireworks exploding behind Moscow State University during celebrations on June 24 marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
Russian honor guards take part in a ceremony at the Kremlin to present awards for outstanding achievements. (epa-EFE/Michael Klimentyev)
A man walks near empty sunbeds at a beach resort on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. (Reuters/Stoyan nenov)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (fifth from left) and other heads of state attend a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in downtown Moscow on June 24. (AFP/Alexey Filippov)
A worker fixes a banner at the entrance to a polling station in Moscow. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
Afghan officials burn expired drug and food items in Helmand on June 23. (epa-EFE/Watan Yar)
A Moscow police officer patrols a park near the Kremlin after it had been opened for walks and sports activities with the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
Russia-backed separatists at a rehearsal for a Victory Day parade in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
A girl walking through a lavender field in the village of Cimisheni, near Chisinau, Moldova. (epa-EFE/Dumitru Doru)
A boy runs in front of a mural dedicated to World War II Soviet pilots in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
A mural depicting a health-care worker is seen painted on a wall of the City Emergency Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
Afghan yoga enthusiasts perform to mark International Yoga Day on the outskirts of Kabul on June 21. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
Municipal workers wearing protective suits disinfect a deserted street in Baku. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)