Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 30th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #30
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An injured protester is taken away by Moscow riot police on July 27. Police in Moscow detained more than 1,300 people in a day of protests against alleged irregularities in the run-up to local elections. The United States, the European Union, and human rights groups denounced what they called the "disproportionate” and “indiscriminate” use of force against the demonstrators. (RFE/RL/Anton Sergienko)
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A Romanian military medic attends a graduation ceremony in Bucharest. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
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A woman walks with an umbrella in the rain in Mumbai, India. India's monsoon season runs from June to September. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Russian police officers detain a man during an unauthorized opposition rally in Moscow on July 27. (AFP/Kirill Kudravtsev)
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Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military exercise near Odesa on July 27. (RFE/RL)
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An elderly Ukrainian woman covers her head from the sun as she begs for money in central Kyiv on July 26. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Supporters of Pakistani opposition political parties walk with flags during a countrywide protest called "Black Day" against the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Peshawar on July 25. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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Military planes fly above a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin during a Naval parade rehearsal in St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Russia's Nikita Fedotov competes in a round of the men's high-diving event during the 2019 World Championships at Chosun University in Gwangju, South Korea. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
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Horses run on the grassland of Ujimqin in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of northern China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Afghan boys collect the remains of a suicide attacker's vehicle in Kabul. One Croatian soldier was killed and two seriously wounded in the attack on their convoy on July 24. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A child plays in a fountain during a hot summer day in Brussels on July 24. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
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Birds fly over the Yenisei River in the Siberian taiga area shrouded in smoke from wildfires in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region on July 23. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A woman looks through over a ballot before casting her vote into a mobile ballot box during parliamentary elections in the village of Pershe Travnya in Ukraine's Kyiv region on July 21. (Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin)
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A man stands under an umbrella beneath a Soviet-era monument as rain falls in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A girl collects grapes to process them into raisins in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jaul Rezayee)
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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, a member of an expedition to the International Space Station, gestures to his relatives from a bus prior to the launch of a Soyuz MS-13 rocket at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (AP)
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An Indian boy sells flowers to Hindu devotees as they perform rituals after collecting water from the River Ganges during the holy month of Shravan in Allahabad. (AFP/Sanjay Kanoja)
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Municipal workers fix public lighting above the central street of Khreshchatyk in Kyiv.(epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
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A man jumps from a bridge during the traditional annual high-diving competition near the town of Gjakova in western Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A Pakistani vendor pushes his cart while youngsters play in a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
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A man and a woman walk past a mural on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
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People bathe in Jablanicko Lake near Konjic in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)