Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 37th week of 2014. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive by clicking on the banner above.
Photos Of The Week
![A man and woman walk past a Ferrari in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)](https://gdb.rferl.org/301b564e-f7c5-4de7-ae80-09456880aa16_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man and woman walk past a Ferrari in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
![Armenian police taking part in exercises at the Arzni airport, close to Yerevan.](https://gdb.rferl.org/52a9a9c6-f388-4fb2-b4fc-495a3d334691_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Armenian police taking part in exercises at the Arzni airport, close to Yerevan.
![Shi'ite fighters launch rockets during fierce clashes with Islamic State members near Tikrit in northern Iraq on September 12. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d933e87a-d925-4a1f-9acc-e206f6196468_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Shi'ite fighters launch rockets during fierce clashes with Islamic State members near Tikrit in northern Iraq on September 12. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)
![Residents carry an injured man out from the debris at a site hit by what activists claim were at least five air strikes by Syrian government forces in Douma near Damascus on September 11. (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8a969346-b5b6-4863-aa54-0efe8382dd5f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Residents carry an injured man out from the debris at a site hit by what activists claim were at least five air strikes by Syrian government forces in Douma near Damascus on September 11. (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)
![An icon and a weapon lie in a bus window in a military camp in Volnovaha town, some 60 km from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on September 11. (epa/Roman Pilipey)](https://gdb.rferl.org/53046ef9-2024-45a6-8a25-105618116169_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An icon and a weapon lie in a bus window in a military camp in Volnovaha town, some 60 km from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on September 11. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
![A Kyrgyz stuntman performs during the first World Nomad Games in the Kyrchin (Semenovskoe) gorge, some 300 kilometers from Bishkek on September 10. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9bdd08d5-4466-439e-a535-605e821e718d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Kyrgyz stuntman performs during the first World Nomad Games in the Kyrchin (Semenovskoe) gorge, some 300 kilometers from Bishkek on September 10. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
![A photographer clambers along mounds of potassium waste from the local salt mine in the town of Salihorsk, some 140 kilometers south of Minsk, Belarus. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b77550c6-c5d9-43a3-bcde-7fb1e2d3a770_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A photographer clambers along mounds of potassium waste from the local salt mine in the town of Salihorsk, some 140 kilometers south of Minsk, Belarus. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
![The “Tribute in Light” illuminates the sky down in the Wall Street area of lower Manhattan in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7a2f7cd8-90f8-4a81-b552-b710d79c9d76_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The “Tribute in Light” illuminates the sky down in the Wall Street area of lower Manhattan in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
![Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule shortly after landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Maksim Shipenkov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/51fd3fc8-c024-4d90-8262-0aeab54f6c41_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule shortly after landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Maksim Shipenkov)
![A woman looks at the site of a car-bomb attack in Baghdad. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6753bb06-91db-4f27-8c63-f060d9a018be_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman looks at the site of a car-bomb attack in Baghdad. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)
![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks over papers while flying from Jordan to Iraq. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5e17cbcc-9d99-423e-b791-9288c808c3bf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks over papers while flying from Jordan to Iraq. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
![A Pro-Russian separatist fighter holds a grenade as he stands guard at a checkpoint on a road near the Donetsk airport. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8f906716-f719-4f4f-b87b-d8fb4a25a607_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Pro-Russian separatist fighter holds a grenade as he stands guard at a checkpoint on a road near the Donetsk airport. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
![A dog at a flooded house following heavy rains in Jhang, Punjab Province, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6e02f7ad-c49f-4de9-901f-02620ba91494_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A dog at a flooded house following heavy rains in Jhang, Punjab Province, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over Baghdad from a helicopter during a visit to the Iraqi capital on September 10. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a15bc50f-ad1a-4cf5-a051-8c0237d8779f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over Baghdad from a helicopter during a visit to the Iraqi capital on September 10. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
![Improvised mortar shells are seen inside a weapons factory in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/175e2319-e179-44c2-a88d-a092fcfb8de9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Improvised mortar shells are seen inside a weapons factory in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
![Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire at Islamic State militant positions from their position on the top of Mount Zardak, a strategic point about 25 kilometers east of Mosul. (AFP/JM Lopez)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a73a51f9-e08a-432a-87cb-9fe1cf1bfa9b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire at Islamic State militant positions from their position on the top of Mount Zardak, a strategic point about 25 kilometers east of Mosul. (AFP/JM Lopez)
![Despite a cease-fire, a Ukrainian forces' field camp was destroyed by shelling by pro-Russian militants in the eastern region of Luhansk. (AFP/Sergei Bobok)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3eb967b9-2b0e-48e2-b69d-47a8c9eb7f1b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Despite a cease-fire, a Ukrainian forces' field camp was destroyed by shelling by pro-Russian militants in the eastern region of Luhansk. (AFP/Sergei Bobok)
![Afghan laborers rest as they work at a leather factory in the Tashqurghan district on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/1b3dff4e-fa55-4986-9dc0-b8a9f63d1123_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan laborers rest as they work at a leather factory in the Tashqurghan district on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![An "Air" in-flight magazine is pictured at the site where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, near the village of Hrabove in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on September 9. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e4ab28ba-7c02-4fff-89fc-bd6393ab41f6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An "Air" in-flight magazine is pictured at the site where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, near the village of Hrabove in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on September 9. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![Pro-Russian rebels stand near a monument in Donetsk, Ukraine, during a ceremony to honor the World War II defenders of Donetsk from Nazi forces. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bda9957f-1aeb-44f7-8564-a6ff994bb95c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pro-Russian rebels stand near a monument in Donetsk, Ukraine, during a ceremony to honor the World War II defenders of Donetsk from Nazi forces. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![A boy collects items thrown by devotees as religious offerings next to idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, a day after they were immersed in the waters of the Sabarmati River in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters/Amit Dave)](https://gdb.rferl.org/eebadc39-6d44-4945-bc41-8f20d79eafdc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy collects items thrown by devotees as religious offerings next to idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, a day after they were immersed in the waters of the Sabarmati River in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
![Iranian President Hassan Rohani visits Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his prostate operation at a hospital in Tehran. (AFP via Khamenei's website)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e0122f1d-3c67-4cba-9481-0a6f44f8c7e1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani visits Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his prostate operation at a hospital in Tehran. (AFP via Khamenei's website)
![Ukrainian soldiers check a smoldering army truck after an overnight bombing attack at a Ukrainian Army checkpoint on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e8017458-c2f2-4dc0-aca3-338a1f223d33_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian soldiers check a smoldering army truck after an overnight bombing attack at a Ukrainian Army checkpoint on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
![A member of the Guard of Honor of the Presidential Regiment from Russia performs on the final day of the International Military Music Festival on Red Square in Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fbad9471-e33c-4409-b6c0-5c53dcd104d9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A member of the Guard of Honor of the Presidential Regiment from Russia performs on the final day of the International Military Music Festival on Red Square in Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)
![Members of Russia's Squadron of the Special Guards dressed like Russian soldiers of World War I perform during the closing of the International Military Music Festival on Moscow's Red Square. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/76e79ba1-eff7-4027-8878-fd2bc1318793_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of Russia's Squadron of the Special Guards dressed like Russian soldiers of World War I perform during the closing of the International Military Music Festival on Moscow's Red Square. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)