Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the fourth week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #4
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Xie Hanchen smashes the head of a mannequin in an anger room to release stress in Beijing. The anger room opened in September 2018 and is intended to help consumers relieve stress through smashing bottles, old appliances, mannequins, and other objects. (epa-EFE/Wu Hong)
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Kazakh Army servicemen participate in a military exercise in Otar. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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People ride a camel on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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A man cleans a zorb ball outside Gorky Park at sunset in Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A Pakistani barber shaves a customer alongside a road amid heavy fog and smog conditions in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A man adjusts his hat on a snow-covered street in Belgrade. Meteorologists predict heavy snowfall and subzero temperatures in Serbia throughout the week. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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Kashmiri girls look on after the full dress rehearsal for the upcoming Republic Day parade in Srinagar. India will be celebrating its 70th Republic Day on January 26. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)
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A National Police officer fires rubber bullets during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas. (Reuters/Manaure Quintero)
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Monkeys cloned from a gene-edited macaque with circadian-rhythm disorders are seen at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. (Reuters/Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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A man walks in frosty weather in Moscow, where the temperature dropped below -19 degrees Celsius. (TASS/Artyom Geodakyan)
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A man kisses a tombstone at the Alley of Martyrs, a cemetery and memorial dedicated to those killed by Soviet troops during the 1990 Black January crackdown, in Baku. Azerbaijan marked the 29th anniversary of the Black January crackdown of the Azerbaijani independence movement in Baku by the Soviet Army in 1990. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)
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Laborers work at an aluminum factory in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Syrian air defenses intercept Israeli missiles targeting an area in Damascus on January 21. (epa-EFE/Youssef Badawi)
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The moon is seen beside a quadriga on the top of the Cinquantenaire arch during a total lunar eclipse, known as the "Super Blood Wolf Moon," in Brussels on January 21. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
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A demonstrator draped in the Greek flag attacks riot police with a stick during a rally in Athens, on January 20. (AP/Yorgos Karahalis)
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A Russian Orthodox believer bathes in an ice hole during a traditional Epiphany celebration in a lake near Valdai-Iverskiy Monastery, in Valdai, Novgorod region, some 400 kilometers northeast of Moscow, on January 19. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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A supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a flag while standing in the waters of Karantinnaya Bay during celebrations of the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, on January 19. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)
