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
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8655db84-edff-4f84-96dd-effff248a99b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A Romanian military medic attends a graduation ceremony in Bucharest. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)](https://gdb.rferl.org/28a7066c-80d2-4d65-baad-9f158b35decf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Romanian military medic attends a graduation ceremony in Bucharest. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
![A woman walks with an umbrella in the rain in Mumbai, India. India's monsoon season runs from June to September. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)](https://gdb.rferl.org/525120d7-15de-4e33-a181-6abfa70c0da9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Russian police officers detain a man during an unauthorized opposition rally in Moscow on July 27. (AFP/Kirill Kudravtsev) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/d2f781ee-43c4-4dc0-8b4f-16e15ea7165f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian police officers detain a man during an unauthorized opposition rally in Moscow on July 27. (AFP/Kirill Kudravtsev)
![Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military exercise near Odesa on July 27. (RFE/RL)](https://gdb.rferl.org/76fd0425-c3a0-4424-a721-9920f56097c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military exercise near Odesa on July 27. (RFE/RL)
![An elderly Ukrainian woman covers her head from the sun as she begs for money in central Kyiv on July 26. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/47248f90-e095-4c4c-af3a-04dd5c59443d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/1d246b76-7203-40e2-8a60-131e19d8b103_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Military planes fly above a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin during a Naval parade rehearsal in St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/19a82881-2c15-4de9-be8e-25f10ca447d8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fa9f1f5e-0421-4221-b56e-bcb997a2486e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Horses run on the grassland of Ujimqin in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of northern China. (Reuters/Stringer)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2205db25-9173-4f36-b812-ca85477688b9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Horses run on the grassland of Ujimqin in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of northern China. (Reuters/Stringer)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f51aad7e-b6d9-451e-9b1f-bc033f4558ce_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A child plays in a fountain during a hot summer day in Brussels on July 24. (Reuters/Yves Herman)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c696d5ac-3271-4512-8979-a03e79e73da8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child plays in a fountain during a hot summer day in Brussels on July 24. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bfc18658-1f5d-4127-bab2-978b1c9ce8b1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d954bc0d-10fc-43cf-bcf3-2b046f9f89da_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A man stands under an umbrella beneath a Soviet-era monument as rain falls in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fe0b853b-004f-4221-b586-aedd8f770686_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A girl collects grapes to process them into raisins in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jaul Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e65b7de0-0c74-4777-b53f-454ebcb343dc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl collects grapes to process them into raisins in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jaul Rezayee)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c9630faa-f142-44a5-8c08-4e75a46d0b18_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![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)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3f45848d-bb3c-4b3c-970c-eb7c31d44229_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![Municipal workers fix public lighting above the central street of Khreshchatyk in Kyiv.(epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6735d89c-f664-496b-ade9-d948e0f20d29_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Municipal workers fix public lighting above the central street of Khreshchatyk in Kyiv.(epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
![A man jumps from a bridge during the traditional annual high-diving competition near the town of Gjakova in western Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/753cdc1a-5093-4505-831f-68bb6c95b6d4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A Pakistani vendor pushes his cart while youngsters play in a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c6f0847a-f104-462d-8780-e9ad232332eb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)
![A man and a woman walk past a mural on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e9e31606-55a6-42b8-a4e2-43c5cdfb4eda_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man and a woman walk past a mural on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
![People bathe in Jablanicko Lake near Konjic in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c408b3ea-7a1c-4a8a-a078-8eb80957c35a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People bathe in Jablanicko Lake near Konjic in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)