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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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An Afghan model presents a traditional costume during Kabul's first street fashion show on January 23. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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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)
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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)
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Children play in the snow in Toksook Bay beside the Bering Sea in Alaska. (AP/Gregory Bull)
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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)
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A Chinese security worker wearing a mask stands guard outside a checkpoint at the Beijing West Railway Station. (Reuters)
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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)
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Iraqi demonstrators warm themselves during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sundani)
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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)
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A woman sells tangerines, pomegranates, and persimmons in Moscow. (AFP/Dimatar Dilkoff)