Sputnik's weekly photo gallery presents a compilation of photos to show the highlights of the past week, where you can get a glimpse of what has been happening across the globe during this truly extraordinary time.
While countries are easing their lockdown measures and restarting their economies, two events have truly attracted the attention of the international community.
The first was the adoption of the Hong Kong Security Law and the second was the referendum on constitutional amendments in Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin votes for constitutional amendments at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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© AP Photo / Mark Lennihan
Women jump from a bridge into Sengekontacket Pond in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard, 27 June 2020.
Farmers try to scare away a swarm of locusts from a field on the outskirts of Sukkur in southern Sindh province on 1 July 2020. Farmers are struggling as the worst locust plague in 25 years wipes out entire harvests in Pakistan's agricultural heartlands, leaving people scrambling for income.
People walk to go tubing on Salt River amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Arizona, US, 27 June 2020.
Britain's Prince Charles looks at a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig with her piglets during a visit to Cotswold Farm Park in Guiting Power near Cheltenham, Britain, 1 July 2020. Farm parks work to preserve native British breeds, encouraging visitors to return to them when they re-open and go back regularly throughout the year to watch the animals change and grow.
Former Team GB Rhythmic Gymnastics star and dancer Hannah Martin during a training session at Ouse Valley Viaduct, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Sussex, Britain, 29 June 2020.
Riot police detain a man as they clear protesters taking part in a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on 1 July 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China.
Police stand in George Square, Glasgow on 27 June 2020, after reports that a demonstration was due take place following a stabbing incident at the Park Inn Hotel the previous day. Scottish police on Friday said armed officers shot dead a man after a stabbing in Glasgow left six others injured, including one of their colleagues.
A woman smiles in a rice paddy field during "National Paddy Day", which marked the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on 29 June 2020. Traditional farming songs and laughter echoed in the air as farmers waded into waterlogged fields to sow green paddy.
The brig "Russia" in the Gulf of Finland during a festival for graduates called "Scarlet Sails" in St. Petersburg.
A woman takes photos of graduates as they stand in line while receiving diplomas at the Military Academy of Belarus, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Minsk, Belarus on 27 June 2020.
Students at the Sam Khok school wearing face masks and face shields are seen inside old ballot boxes repurposed into partitions as they attend a class after the Thai government eased isolation measures and introduced social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as schools nationwide reopen, in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, 1 July 2020.
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© AP Photo / Gyorgy Varga / MTI
Lightning flashes across the sky in Nagykanizsa, Hungary.
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© AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa
A girl throws water on a friend as they play in the rain in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, 1 July 2020.
A cat is pictured on a seafront promenade before a curfew is imposed by authorities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the Bab el-Oued district of Algeria's capital Algiers on 29 June 2020.
A young woman in a lavender field in Crimea. Lavender plantations occupy more than 120 hectares in the Bakhchisarai district near the village of Turgenevka.
