Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the fourth week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #4
![Excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from the deadly outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei Province. China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicenter of the outbreak that has killed at least 56 and infected almost 2,000 others. (AFP/Stringer)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b96af03d-5f1d-4281-8c33-097d93a6d7cb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from the deadly outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei Province. China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicenter of the outbreak that has killed at least 56 and infected almost 2,000 others. (AFP/Stringer)
![Sundus Garis, a 16-year-old displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community, is pictured through a car window during her wedding ceremony in the northernwestern Iraqi Kurdish city of Dohuk, near the border with Turkey. (AFP/Safin Hamed)](https://gdb.rferl.org/94236c7b-574a-4486-86a9-f6625ef70382_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sundus Garis, a 16-year-old displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community, is pictured through a car window during her wedding ceremony in the northernwestern Iraqi Kurdish city of Dohuk, near the border with Turkey. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
![An environmental activist pickets in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry demanding a thorough screening of passengers arriving from Southeast Asia to protect against the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f67e4a4d-a2c9-4d11-9995-c6b8d97d0784_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An environmental activist pickets in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry demanding a thorough screening of passengers arriving from Southeast Asia to protect against the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
![A Ukrainian separatist stands guard inside a dugout near the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Region on January 23. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/787b12e4-c49c-4182-93b4-f7f099bc1d6e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian separatist stands guard inside a dugout near the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Region on January 23. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
![Russian servicemen look at each other during a changing-of-the-guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9e450233-fad5-4dce-9e07-5bf1420a23ae_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian servicemen look at each other during a changing-of-the-guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![Maria Sharapova of Russia in action against Donna Vekic of Croatia on the second day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (epa-EFE/Scott Barbour)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7d76f1f9-99b5-4ab4-835c-b8c1b2031d4f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Maria Sharapova of Russia in action against Donna Vekic of Croatia on the second day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (epa-EFE/Scott Barbour)
![An Afghan model presents a traditional costume during Kabul's first street fashion show on January 23. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/53bc93ea-4b60-48b1-bef9-c58a81bdf8b7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan model presents a traditional costume during Kabul's first street fashion show on January 23. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
![Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic in action against Tatsuma Ito of Japan during their second-round match at the Australian Open tournament in Melbourne on January 22. (epa-EFE/Lukas Coch) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/aea4096e-08e4-4fec-8707-2ca1b91a9e87_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic in action against Tatsuma Ito of Japan during their second-round match at the Australian Open tournament in Melbourne on January 22. (epa-EFE/Lukas Coch)
![An athlete competing in the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games takes part in an individual men's ski slope event. (AFP/Jeff Pachoud)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c2842910-46ef-4900-9b18-2dbcc477e6e3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An athlete competing in the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games takes part in an individual men's ski slope event. (AFP/Jeff Pachoud)
![Children play in the snow in Toksook Bay beside the Bering Sea in Alaska. (AP/Gregory Bull)](https://gdb.rferl.org/38f0adc9-6d29-4d1e-b6f2-440f17021528_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children play in the snow in Toksook Bay beside the Bering Sea in Alaska. (AP/Gregory Bull)
![Russian Communist Party supporters holding red flags gather by Red Square to take part in a memorial ceremony to mark the 96th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, in downtown Moscow, on January 21. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fa4030d6-1235-47e6-a6f0-9af02128c762_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian Communist Party supporters holding red flags gather by Red Square to take part in a memorial ceremony to mark the 96th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, in downtown Moscow, on January 21. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)
![A Chinese security worker wearing a mask stands guard outside a checkpoint at the Beijing West Railway Station. (Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7ed3529e-31bb-446b-8574-edd0fee26e22_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Chinese security worker wearing a mask stands guard outside a checkpoint at the Beijing West Railway Station. (Reuters)
![A man walks next to a cross after taking a dip in the shallow water of the Volga River during celebrations of the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in Volgograd, Russia, on January 19. (Reuters/Kirill Braga)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9128069e-5790-4fd3-b96a-1470f61cc036_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks next to a cross after taking a dip in the shallow water of the Volga River during celebrations of the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in Volgograd, Russia, on January 19. (Reuters/Kirill Braga)
![Iraqi demonstrators warm themselves during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sundani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/378135cd-b0bb-4516-8337-83296db5273c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iraqi demonstrators warm themselves during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sundani)
![A man dressed as a clown is one of hundreds of climate protesters at the Davos economic conference in Switzerland. (AP/Michael Probst)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8d0ace11-76b3-4cfe-87ca-1d20fc98fc94_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man dressed as a clown is one of hundreds of climate protesters at the Davos economic conference in Switzerland. (AP/Michael Probst)
![A woman sells tangerines, pomegranates, and persimmons in Moscow. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)](https://gdb.rferl.org/eb46ba05-21f5-4c15-97a9-ef74f8ce6d95_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman sells tangerines, pomegranates, and persimmons in Moscow. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)