Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the seventh week of 2015. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #7
![Ukrainian servicemen play football on a road near Debaltseve on February 15 shortly after a cease-fire began to be cautiously observed by both pro-Russian rebels and Kyiv forces in the country's months-long conflict. (AFP/Volodomyr Shuvayev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6764e8f9-d706-4851-b8dd-86c24815a8ea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian servicemen play football on a road near Debaltseve on February 15 shortly after a cease-fire began to be cautiously observed by both pro-Russian rebels and Kyiv forces in the country's months-long conflict. (AFP/Volodomyr Shuvayev)
![An Afghan woman carries a water canister past the ruins of a building destroyed during the Afghan-Soviet war on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8df200c3-18ae-4215-a75f-afb401347b60_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan woman carries a water canister past the ruins of a building destroyed during the Afghan-Soviet war on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
![Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga (left) bowls to New Zealand's Grant Elliott during a Cricket World Cup match in Christchurch on February 14. (AFP/Marty Melville) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/6670ac86-013c-4900-956b-73941f118873_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga (left) bowls to New Zealand's Grant Elliott during a Cricket World Cup match in Christchurch on February 14. (AFP/Marty Melville)
![A child sits in a bus during an evacuation to Russia from Donetsk on February 13. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/873275c4-05b8-4bb4-be62-e5f1da0aa73e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child sits in a bus during an evacuation to Russia from Donetsk on February 13. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)
![A girl jumps as she plays hopscotch on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ea133e47-308a-48d2-b1b6-5a86c6d19081_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl jumps as she plays hopscotch on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
![A man rests in a shelter for homeless people in Moscow. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fd2f9398-35b8-4802-be19-a4c1b0ba5125_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man rests in a shelter for homeless people in Moscow. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
![An Iraqi woman walks past a shop displaying teddy bears in preparation for Valentine's Day in Baghdad's Karrada district. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)](https://gdb.rferl.org/019c4199-0580-4a5f-a2ae-88038a5189a7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi woman walks past a shop displaying teddy bears in preparation for Valentine's Day in Baghdad's Karrada district. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
![An aerial view of an international balloon festival in Bhopal, India (epa/Sanjeev Gupta)](https://gdb.rferl.org/43b08875-dddf-4f64-ae0c-19febab31fc9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An aerial view of an international balloon festival in Bhopal, India (epa/Sanjeev Gupta)
![An Afghan child pushes a wheelbarrow as he transports firewood on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/87c2df78-2e6f-4a5a-8ae9-ae6225c3d961_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan child pushes a wheelbarrow as he transports firewood on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![Graduates of the National Central Police Academy attend their graduation ceremony at the school in Chungju, South Korea. (epa/Yonhap)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ac156182-7229-45d7-a78f-53a849fd93ba_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Graduates of the National Central Police Academy attend their graduation ceremony at the school in Chungju, South Korea. (epa/Yonhap)
![A toxic cloud is seen over the town of Igualada, near Barcelona, following an explosion at a chemical plant. Three people were injured in the blast. Authorities advised nearby residents to stay indoors. (Reuters/Alba Aribau)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ca9d030c-dc50-484d-a48c-57e0bc15925f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A toxic cloud is seen over the town of Igualada, near Barcelona, following an explosion at a chemical plant. Three people were injured in the blast. Authorities advised nearby residents to stay indoors. (Reuters/Alba Aribau)
![A woman bakes bread in Nassiriyah, southeast of Baghdad. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/24407275-e773-4a2e-8997-b135f3732b0f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman bakes bread in Nassiriyah, southeast of Baghdad. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani)
![Pope Francis gestures as he speaks with a cardinal during the arrival of cardinals and bishops to participate in the papal consistory before the nominations of new cardinals at the Vatican. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b9a79cb2-c327-42fe-ad3f-f95c82628ce4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pope Francis gestures as he speaks with a cardinal during the arrival of cardinals and bishops to participate in the papal consistory before the nominations of new cardinals at the Vatican. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)
![An Afghan girl sits on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)](https://gdb.rferl.org/18c343a0-b966-47de-9723-d01478e21250_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan girl sits on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
![Misha Ge of Uzbekistan performs during the men's short program at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul in this time-lapse photograph. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ff32157d-8471-4c87-8e14-1d50112ff2ca_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Misha Ge of Uzbekistan performs during the men's short program at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul in this time-lapse photograph. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)
![A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special training course in Nowshera, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, on February 11. (AFP/A Majeed)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2f22a086-ef86-435a-8757-1bd8a53c6167_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special training course in Nowshera, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, on February 11. (AFP/A Majeed)
![Iranian students wave their national flag during the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) on February 11. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d63746a6-b8d9-4781-9116-327b6a569915_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iranian students wave their national flag during the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) on February 11. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
![Syrian refugees brave the cold and snow as they walk to a metro station in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 11. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f4f71a35-4dd4-4186-ac51-2e70134028a1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Syrian refugees brave the cold and snow as they walk to a metro station in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 11. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
![A teddy bear lies near a puddle of blood at the site of recent shelling in a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c24e204e-f0a5-45d2-8d07-e8c32ecd1a49_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A teddy bear lies near a puddle of blood at the site of recent shelling in a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![Jailed Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at a court in Moscow on February 10. Savchenko has been on hunger strike, protesting her incarceration, for eight weeks. The sign she is holding says: "I was born Ukrainian; I will die Ukrainian." (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3387d638-1621-45c4-ab2c-c6e6bc385554_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Jailed Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at a court in Moscow on February 10. Savchenko has been on hunger strike, protesting her incarceration, for eight weeks. The sign she is holding says: "I was born Ukrainian; I will die Ukrainian." (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
![Afghan men clean raisins in a factory in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9496898e-5854-4dac-b251-3b45a5ac9a1d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan men clean raisins in a factory in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
![A topless Femen activist jumps on the car carrying former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (not seen) as he arrives for his "aggravated pimping" trial in Lille on February 10. (AFP/Denis Charlet)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a36def17-1085-49b7-9c75-366a5d6a01b1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A topless Femen activist jumps on the car carrying former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (not seen) as he arrives for his "aggravated pimping" trial in Lille on February 10. (AFP/Denis Charlet)
![People look at the remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7480244c-0d15-4216-867c-0c89f228d021_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People look at the remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![A local woman is seen through a shell hole in a fence araound a damaged home following an artillery barrage in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 9. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b7be56b9-1437-461c-a250-ddb45dbc4119_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A local woman is seen through a shell hole in a fence araound a damaged home following an artillery barrage in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 9. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)
![Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (left) receives a Kalashnikov rifle as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) in Cairo on February 9. (epa)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ee0ddf87-69e8-41ad-85b7-9b146a79cc6a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (left) receives a Kalashnikov rifle as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) in Cairo on February 9. (epa)