Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 15th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #15
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A serviceman with a dog falls while jumping down from a vehicle during military exercises held by Kazakh assault troops at a firing ground in the Almaty region. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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Members of Iran's army and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps pray during a weekly Friday Prayers ceremony in Tehran on April 12. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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An Afghan blacksmith forges a tool at his workshop in Herat city. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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A woman assists a child with a weapon during an exhibition displaying military equipment, vehicles, and weapons of the Russian defense forces in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea. (AFP/Denis Lovrovic)
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Attendees pass by an old train that was used for deportations of prisoners to the World War II extermination camp in Jasenovac during a memorial ceremony on April 12 for the tens of thousands of victims who were killed there. (AFP/Denis Lovrovic)
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A man sits outside a cafe next to a statue of Marilyn Monroe in central Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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A worker in Moscow cleans the statue of Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, ahead of Cosmonautics Day, which is celebrated on April 12. (AP/Maxim Marmur)
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Two Afghan school girls push a disabled classmate in a wheelchair along a road in Herat Province. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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People in Kyiv walk past an election-campaign poster showing the current Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko facing Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
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The village of Susangerd lies partially submerged following flooding in Iran's Khuzestan Province. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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A man and the Sogaz insurance company's headquarters are reflected on the wall of an underpass in Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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Georgian children dance during an April 9 rally to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the so-called "Tbilisi Tragedy," which occurred when an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the authorities in 1989, resulting in 21 deaths. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
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A supporter of the far-right Kotleba -- People's Party Our Slovakia stands outside the Supreme Court in Bratislava, which is deliberating on whether to ban the group. (AP/Petr David Josek)
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An Afghan family ride on a bike past the site of a car bomb attack near Bagram air base on April 9. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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An aerial view of a flea market in Tbilisi, Georgia (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
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A Romany child plays on a makeshift swing in an encampment near Pristina, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A Belarusian snowboarder takes part in a competition at an entertainment center in the town of Logoisk, 40 kilometers north of Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Pigeons fly in front of a large poster of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Bursa. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
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A costumed participant skis on a pool as part of the Californication 9.0 humoristic competition marking the end of the winter season outside the town of Lahoysk, Belarus, on April 7. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Young people dance on the Moskva River embankment during a sunny day in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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Kyrgyz national honor guards lay a wreath at a monument to those killed during the April 2010 uprising at the Ata-Beyit cemetery outside the capital, Bishkek, on April 7. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)