Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the eighth week of 2015. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #8
![People pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, on February 19. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)](https://gdb.rferl.org/00c27fbb-b4e8-45fa-86ad-4e3ea1cf757e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, on February 19. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
![A woman is reflected in mirrors, decorated with sea shells and put up for sale, as she walks along Karachi's Clifton Beach. (Reuters/Athar Hussain)](https://gdb.rferl.org/70e5f275-095d-4e91-a65b-e1259c9debf6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman is reflected in mirrors, decorated with sea shells and put up for sale, as she walks along Karachi's Clifton Beach. (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
![Pro-Russian rebels stationed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka launch missiles from Grad launch vehicles. (AFP/Andrei Borodulin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/84d7769c-dffa-45e7-8150-a51bfd74264a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pro-Russian rebels stationed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka launch missiles from Grad launch vehicles. (AFP/Andrei Borodulin)
![Afghan Border Police fire a missile against suspected Taliban hideouts during an operation in the Marjah district of Helmand Province on February 18. (epa/Watan Yar)](https://gdb.rferl.org/65babaec-f02a-4afe-afe0-9aa9c14d4417_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan Border Police fire a missile against suspected Taliban hideouts during an operation in the Marjah district of Helmand Province on February 18. (epa/Watan Yar)
![Seagulls fly over the Bosphorus during heavy snowfall on the Asian side of Istanbul on February 18. (AFP/Bulent Kulic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b4f814a5-f5b6-40c7-84be-80cbfe418dd3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Seagulls fly over the Bosphorus during heavy snowfall on the Asian side of Istanbul on February 18. (AFP/Bulent Kulic)
![A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital in Artemivsk on February 18. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/989f2f11-e2cc-4f09-b872-f3bc27f73197_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital in Artemivsk on February 18. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![People visit the historical Derawar Fort in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. (epa/Omer Saleem)](https://gdb.rferl.org/983e7aa7-12e5-45b6-9fe3-258c50a8178a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People visit the historical Derawar Fort in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. (epa/Omer Saleem)
![A child plays cards in the local Palace of Culture which is being used as a bomb shelter in Mironovka village, near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 17. (epa/Anastasia Vlasova)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3f582ca9-e10d-4c88-98a9-6598bc6e3f6a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child plays cards in the local Palace of Culture which is being used as a bomb shelter in Mironovka village, near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 17. (epa/Anastasia Vlasova)
![A Ukrainian serviceman looks out from a tank at a base near the village of Piskiy in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 16. (AFP/Oleksandr Ratushniak)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b82fcc54-1a55-4c28-8f0d-cd9ff18e2303_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian serviceman looks out from a tank at a base near the village of Piskiy in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 16. (AFP/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
![A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news in the village of Al-Awar in the southern province of Minya on February 16. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d7278155-ce66-4cbb-b902-0b7e4d1fca8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news in the village of Al-Awar in the southern province of Minya on February 16. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)
![Crosses marked only with numbers stand on the graves of unknown pro-Russian separatists at a cemetery in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4f09bb6e-8ece-4130-9afa-332f4977d68d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Crosses marked only with numbers stand on the graves of unknown pro-Russian separatists at a cemetery in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
![A man blows fire on a scarecrow with a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during celebrations to say farewell to winter in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod on February 15. (AFP/Alexander Zobin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/45b7a001-c183-40dc-a7af-2d680dc81330_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man blows fire on a scarecrow with a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during celebrations to say farewell to winter in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod on February 15. (AFP/Alexander Zobin)