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Photos Of The Week #20
![Crimean Tatars gather in Simferopol on May 18 to remember those who died in their wartime deportation from the peninsula. (RFE/RL /Oleg Kamushkin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a9ffbc41-e8f3-4ae9-bf19-fe7daf868cc4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Crimean Tatars gather in Simferopol on May 18 to remember those who died in their wartime deportation from the peninsula. (RFE/RL /Oleg Kamushkin)
![Crimean Tatars and local residents light candles during a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Tatars from Crimea in Kyiv on May 17. (Reuters/Konstantin Grishin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f33b019c-b199-43e4-996a-1745e4cbd378_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Crimean Tatars and local residents light candles during a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Tatars from Crimea in Kyiv on May 17. (Reuters/Konstantin Grishin)
![The village of Zarat, in Azerbaijan's Shamakhi district (RFE/RL /Abbas Atilay)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f0cb9ea4-3e83-46ad-a16e-6c2be1c090b9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The village of Zarat, in Azerbaijan's Shamakhi district (RFE/RL /Abbas Atilay)
![Members of the LGBT community carry a rainbow-colored flag as they attend a march for human rights and equality in Chisinau, Moldova, on May 17. (epa/Dumitru Doru)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f82a8945-a48b-4efa-a6a0-a2177bed6fa9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the LGBT community carry a rainbow-colored flag as they attend a march for human rights and equality in Chisinau, Moldova, on May 17. (epa/Dumitru Doru)
![Serbian soldiers evacuate people in a boat in the flooded town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, on May 17. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c2486806-c46d-44e1-a3b4-c1f53fd04a24_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serbian soldiers evacuate people in a boat in the flooded town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, on May 17. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![Residents of the flooded Bosnian village of Topcic Polje are evacuated from their homes by backhoe on May 16. (Reuters/Davo Rucic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/dc6b7cf2-d972-4f5a-b789-c9a8e7fece0e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Residents of the flooded Bosnian village of Topcic Polje are evacuated from their homes by backhoe on May 16. (Reuters/Davo Rucic)
![Children look at chocolate in the form of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Lviv Chocolate Studio in western Ukraine. (Reuters/Roman Baluk)](https://gdb.rferl.org/55d87613-2a4b-47cd-961c-b42496ae926b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children look at chocolate in the form of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Lviv Chocolate Studio in western Ukraine. (Reuters/Roman Baluk)
![Sailors take part in the first stage of the Varna-Novorossiysk Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta in Bulgaria. (ITAR-TASS)](https://gdb.rferl.org/126bda83-7077-4b9c-adf4-3c6c74e8bf9c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sailors take part in the first stage of the Varna-Novorossiysk Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta in Bulgaria. (ITAR-TASS)
![A landslide and floodwaters around houses in the village of Topcic Polje, near the central town of Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 15. Severe flooding in Serbia and Bosnia has forced schools to close and hundreds of people to evacuate their homes and left thousands more without power. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/33f1138b-712c-40b9-9bcc-578a559458bd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A landslide and floodwaters around houses in the village of Topcic Polje, near the central town of Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 15. Severe flooding in Serbia and Bosnia has forced schools to close and hundreds of people to evacuate their homes and left thousands more without power. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
![U.S. Army soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, jump with parachutes during a military drill near the town of Gjakova. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6505c10c-7923-4789-8475-c3af7c165a33_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. Army soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, jump with parachutes during a military drill near the town of Gjakova. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
![Supporters of the Dynamo Kyiv soccer club shout slogans and light flares to protest against the proposed new location for the forthcoming Ukranian Cup final during a rally in central Kyiv on May 14. (Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5c5fbf2f-00f7-4c2d-9ca6-cfed22b97e28_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Supporters of the Dynamo Kyiv soccer club shout slogans and light flares to protest against the proposed new location for the forthcoming Ukranian Cup final during a rally in central Kyiv on May 14. (Reuters)
![Afghan laborers work at a brick factory as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ec62a7dd-819d-4d81-926e-99081bf80fbc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan laborers work at a brick factory as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![As police officers detain him, a protester is kicked by Yusuf Yerkel (left), advisor to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, during a protest against Erdogan's visit to Soma, a district in western province of Manisa, where hundreds of miners died in an explosion this week. (Reuters/Mehmet Emin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f3d39449-2240-427d-a6d0-3090853e816f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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As police officers detain him, a protester is kicked by Yusuf Yerkel (left), advisor to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, during a protest against Erdogan's visit to Soma, a district in western province of Manisa, where hundreds of miners died in an explosion this week. (Reuters/Mehmet Emin)
![A man kisses his son, who survived an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa, Turkey, which killed hundreds of people on May 13. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6d206c31-c7e6-49b6-be72-c758d60ce853_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man kisses his son, who survived an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa, Turkey, which killed hundreds of people on May 13. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
![A man holds a cross and a telephone as he stands near a barricade erected by pro-Russian activists during a rally to mark and celebrate the announcement of the results of the referendum on the status of Donetsk region in Donetsk on May 12. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e784cd25-d705-487e-87e2-a9f13c397a45_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man holds a cross and a telephone as he stands near a barricade erected by pro-Russian activists during a rally to mark and celebrate the announcement of the results of the referendum on the status of Donetsk region in Donetsk on May 12. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)
![Pro-Russia militia men destroy gambling machines in one of the gaming clubs in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cb788c27-31bb-4692-8b75-ee5334d62532_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pro-Russia militia men destroy gambling machines in one of the gaming clubs in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev)
![A Turkmen man performs on a horse during the opening ceremony of 2014 International Akhal-Teke Horses Association Special Conference and China Horse Culture Festival at the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 12. (Reuters/Jason Lee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/31577a6d-f6ae-499a-83c4-b4ea0619e25d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Turkmen man performs on a horse during the opening ceremony of 2014 International Akhal-Teke Horses Association Special Conference and China Horse Culture Festival at the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 12. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
![Internally displaced Afghan children look on from a tent on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/dca4a215-08b2-4f5f-9bf4-36607f2ef4fd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Internally displaced Afghan children look on from a tent on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
![An Afghan policeman points to shrapnel at the site of a suicide attack in in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, which killed at least seven people on May 12. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9b505742-91cd-4bea-804c-17c01d03c480_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan policeman points to shrapnel at the site of a suicide attack in in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, which killed at least seven people on May 12. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
![An armed pro-Russian militant stands at a checkpoint near Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (epa/Roman Pilipey)](https://gdb.rferl.org/52848056-f24a-465c-a3f6-fef463a9ca4e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An armed pro-Russian militant stands at a checkpoint near Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
![Men work at a makeshift oil refinery site in the Kurdish town of Al-Qahtaniya in Syria. (Reuters/Rodi Said)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4d1cfefa-64f3-44e0-9bb3-c02b0321e82c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Men work at a makeshift oil refinery site in the Kurdish town of Al-Qahtaniya in Syria. (Reuters/Rodi Said)
![A woman holds a Russian national flag during a rally to support the self-rule "referendums" for the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in central Simferopol, Crimea, on May 11. (AFP/Max Vetrov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/46d90997-5f10-45d1-a8fa-1a4f25f1a5c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman holds a Russian national flag during a rally to support the self-rule "referendums" for the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in central Simferopol, Crimea, on May 11. (AFP/Max Vetrov)