Photos Of The Week No. 51
Kyiv residents walk around the Ukrainian capital's main Christmas tree in front of St. Sophia's Cathedral. The tree is 31 meters high and features more than 10,000 decorations
An Afghan man walks past people watching Buzkashi, a Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a decapitated animal carcass in a goal, in Mazar-e Sharif on December 24.
People have fun with an alleyway of Christmas lights in downtown Chisinau, Moldova.
Workers arrange fish in their shop at a market in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A man walks near the Kremlin during a frosty day with the air temperature at around minus 21 degrees Celsius in downtown Moscow.
A brown bear gets ready to feed on some apples in a bear sanctuary near the village of Mramor, Kosovo.
A couple visits a Christmas fair in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Workers decorate Russia's 28-meter-high New Year tree on the Kremlin's Sobornaya Square in downtown Moscow.
A Russian woman wearing a protective face mask walks on a street festooned with Christmas decorations in Moscow.
Zahria Erian (left) takes a moment outside the room where she gives lessons at her home in Kabul for a mixed group of Afghan children. The new Taliban regime has kept nearly 1.1 million Afghan girls away from schools.
A Ukrainian reservist takes part in military exercises at a training ground near Kyiv.
Space flight participant and Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa disembarks from a helicopter as he arrives at Zhezkazgan airport upon returning from the International Space Station on a Soyuz MS-20 space capsule on December 20.
Members of Pakistan's Christian minority dressed as Santa Claus attend a pre-Christmas rally on a street in Peshawar.
Commuters on motorbikes wear face masks and face shields in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
An elderly communist supporter with the red flag of the former U.S.S.R. waits to lay flowers at the grave of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on the 142nd anniversary of his birth, near the Kremlin Wall on December 21.
A protester wears a mask while blocking streets in front of government headquarters in Belgrade during a protest against multinational Rio Tinto's plans to open a lithium mine in Serbia.
The acting foreign minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-run cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi, arrives for an extraordinary session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The economic collapse of Afghanistan would have a "horrendous" impact on the region and the world, successive speakers warned at the start of a one-day summit of foreign ministers on December 19.
An Romanian protester against COVID restrictions wears a latex mask with syringes attached to it during a rally in front of government headquarters in Bucharest.