Balkan Insight’s Week in Pictures

Balkan Insight’s Week in PicturesBIRNEPADecember 10, 202116:01 A round-up of Balkan Insight’s favourite photographs of the week.

Serbia’s Damir Rastic (L) and Ukraine’s Artem Tyshchenko (R) in action during the men’s 10km Sprint race at the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria. Photo: EPA-EFE/Christian Bruna.

CSKA Sofia fans light flares during the UEFA Europa Conference League group C football match against AS Roma in the Bulgarian capital on December 9, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Vassil Donev.

The Romanian honour guard brass band leader (C) during a welcome ceremony for Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita (not pictured) at the Victoria Palace in Bucharest on December 9, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement.

Riot policemen aflame during clashes with protesters during a rally marking the 13th anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in Thessaloniki on December 6, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Dimitris Tosidis./small>

Greek policemen walk past pedestrians during a rally marking the 13th anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in Thessaloniki on December 6, 2021. EPA-EFE/Dimitris Tosidis.

Pope Francis handing a microphone back to a journalist aboard the papal plane on his flight back to Rome after visiting Cyprus and Greece on December 6, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Vatican Media.

People check foreign exchange rates in front of the currency exchange office in Istanbul on November 23, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Sedat Suna.

Migrants from Afghanistan at a house used by smugglers as a secret hideout while being held by Turkish security forces during an operation in the border city of Van on August 25, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Sedat Suna.

Turkish feminist group Campus Witches wears costumes from the TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” during a protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on August 14, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Erdem Sahin.

A long exposure photo shows Perseid meteors crossing the sky over the stone pillars in Kuklice, near the eastern Macedonian city of Kratovo on August 13, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski.

Women try to break through a police barricade as the Turkish police block a rally during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women rally in Istanbul on November 25, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Erdem Sahin.

Turkish police detain a protester during a demonstration against Turkish President Erdogan’s appointed rector at the Bogazici University in Istanbul on April 1, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Erdem Sahin.

Environmental protesters block the E-75 highway in Belgrade on December 4, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Andrej Cukic.

A medical worker prepares a dose of a coronavirus vaccine at a shopping centre during Bosnia’s mass vaccination campaign on December 4, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Fehim Demir.

A Romanian school girl (R) receives as a gift made by a doll-maker (L) at a workshop for kids organised in front of the Romanian Opera House during the opening of the Christmas Market in Bucharest on December 3, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement.

A man with a face mask sits in a tram in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on December 3, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Fehim Demir.

Relatives attend the funeral ceremony of the victims from a bus accident in the village of Morane, near Skopje, the Macedonian capital, on December 3,2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski.

Local residents look at the flood waters in the Kosovo town of Fushe Kosove/Fushe Kosova on January 11, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj.

A man takes a picture of a building peeking through the heavy fog and air pollution that covers Skopje valley on January 24, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski.