Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (38 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #4
![A view of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station in the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RL/Zhanarbek Dzholdoshbaev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7a4acadb-bb17-4449-89d9-4c34b547f047_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A view of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station in the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RL/Zhanarbek Dzholdoshbaev)
![A Hindu devotee performs evening prayers on the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Allahaba, India. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)](https://gdb.rferl.org/005c9c65-63f5-4c02-8bf6-76d027fbb72b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Hindu devotee performs evening prayers on the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Allahaba, India. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)
![An activist wears a banner with a portrait of Yulia Tymoshenko as she attends a protest rally in front of President Viktor Yanukovych's offices in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/53592e5c-5ed2-434e-8d58-6fee312c2c49_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An activist wears a banner with a portrait of Yulia Tymoshenko as she attends a protest rally in front of President Viktor Yanukovych's offices in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
![Serhiy Vlasenko, a lawyer for jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, gestures as he reacts to a journalist's question during a news conference in Kyiv about the case. (Reuters/Stringer)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7b1e57d0-cb35-4376-a4ed-5ecf44fdcf4d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serhiy Vlasenko, a lawyer for jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, gestures as he reacts to a journalist's question during a news conference in Kyiv about the case. (Reuters/Stringer)
![A girl stands at the entrance to her house in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7023a942-e1d1-4547-8745-3aea25ec1773_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl stands at the entrance to her house in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
![U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath of office for a second term with his hand on two Bibles -- the Bible used by former President Abraham Lincoln when he took the oath of office for the first of his two terms in 1861 and the so-called "traveling Bible" used by slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (AFP/Jewel Samad)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b1f1a9dc-3c86-4886-8500-661075cc060b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath of office for a second term with his hand on two Bibles -- the Bible used by former President Abraham Lincoln when he took the oath of office for the first of his two terms in 1861 and the so-called "traveling Bible" used by slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
![U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at his second inauguration at the Capitol during the 57th presidential inauguration in Washington on January 21. (Reuters/Evan Vucci)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9ea3b707-b4c8-494b-8b20-a00c41daa197_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at his second inauguration at the Capitol during the 57th presidential inauguration in Washington on January 21. (Reuters/Evan Vucci)
![Afghan security forces look through a broken window after a clash between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters in Kabul. (AFP/Shah Marai)](https://gdb.rferl.org/57fb1f01-c15b-4242-a8b9-b3b65e05625a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan security forces look through a broken window after a clash between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters in Kabul. (AFP/Shah Marai)
![Cooks in the Macedonian city of Ohrid attempted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by cooking 3 tons and 300 kilograms of fish stew. The stew was cooked by teachers and students of the catering school Vanco Pitoseski. (MIA)](https://gdb.rferl.org/10e03805-0bb2-4a56-b689-00046d27e96e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Cooks in the Macedonian city of Ohrid attempted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by cooking 3 tons and 300 kilograms of fish stew. The stew was cooked by teachers and students of the catering school Vanco Pitoseski. (MIA)
![A flock of geese flies by flags near the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital. (AFP/Joe Klamar)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a198c422-129f-47c3-ac9a-8fc3bc745442_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A flock of geese flies by flags near the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital. (AFP/Joe Klamar)
![Members of the Fateh al Sham unit of the Free Syrian Army run across a street in the Haresta neighborhood of Damascus. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/428d0d75-8184-4598-aea1-a30dff706a85_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the Fateh al Sham unit of the Free Syrian Army run across a street in the Haresta neighborhood of Damascus. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)