Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 12th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #12

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Kyrgyz girls in national costumes take part in Norouz celebrations in Bishkek. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)

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People take pictures as a reveler rides a horse during a parade as part of Norouz celebrations, an ancient holiday marking the spring equinox, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

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A worker checks freshly printed ballots for the March 31 presidential election at a printing plant in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

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An Indian reveler is hit by colored water during Holi festival celebrations in Chennai. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colors, is observed in India and many other countries at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month. (AFP/Arun Sankar)

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Police officers detain an anti-government protester during a rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Police detained dozens of people who were protesting the government's move to rename the Central Asian nation's capital after former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, just days after his surprise resignation. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

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Mohammed Nadir, 58, cries he listens to a service for twin mosque massacre victims in a park near the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 22. Nadir's brother Haji Mohammed Daoud Nabi, 71, was the first victim of the Al Noor Mosque massacre and was shot after welcoming the gunman into the building with the words "Hello, brother." (AFP/Anthony Wallace)

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People participate in a torch procession during celebrations of the Norouz new year in Iraq's Kurdish region on March 20. (epa-EFE/Gailan Haji)

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Pakistani Hindu men play with colored powder as they celebrate the Holi festival in Karachi on March 20. (AFP/Asif Hassan)

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People walk by a "Sarajevo rose" in Sarajevo. They are markings of mortar shelling from the 1992-95 siege in which 10,000 people died and can be found around the city. They are the original damage scars in concrete that were accented in red paint. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)

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An Iranian couple lights a lantern in a park in Tehran as part of festivities ahead of the annual spring festival of Norouz. (AFP)

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Workers manufacture glass objects at the Neman glassworks in the Belarusian town of Byarozawka. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)

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A mufti leads evening prayers in front of a makeshift memorial at the Al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, where a mass shooting claimed 50 lives earlier this month. (epa-EFE/Mick Tsikas)

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Kyrgyz horsemen participate in the traditional Central Asian sport of Kok-Boru, a competition that is held as part of Norouz celebrations in Bishkek. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)

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Young Russian cadets demonstrate their skills before an intermediate examination session at a military school in Stavropol. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)

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A couple walks on spring ice on the frozen Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

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Women who support the Qhara Qhara community, a Quechua ethnic group, rest during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia. (Reuters/David Mercado)

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A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces keeps position on a hilltop as he watches the Islamic State extremist group's last remaining location in the village of Baghouz on March 18 during battles with the Kurdish-led SDF in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor.(AFP/Delil Souleiman)

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A woman walks past the wreckage of a newsstand in Paris on March 18, two days after it was damaged by protesters during clashes with riot police on the Champs-Elysees during the 18th consecutive Saturday of demonstrations called by the Yellow Vest movement. (AFP/Philippe Lopez)

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The silhouette of a woman is reflected in a puddle as she crosses a square in front of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)

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People gather and mourn next to the coffin of the late Armenian Patriarch in Turkey, Mesrob Mutafyan, in Istanbul. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)

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A woman attends an opposition rally in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)

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Servicemen with the Belarusian Interior Ministry's special forces perform as they mark Internal Forces Day in Minsk on March 17. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)