Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 41st week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #41
![The night sky over Russky Island near Vladivostok during the Draconid meteor shower. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)](https://gdb.rferl.org/48971da5-354c-436f-a025-1457e8f3b45c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The night sky over Russky Island near Vladivostok during the Draconid meteor shower. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)
![An Afghan woman holds a poster of Afghan journalist Saleha Soadat, candidate for the parliamentary elections, and poses for a photograph in an internal displacement camp in the outskirt of Kabul on October 11. (EPA-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5c58f6e9-19af-4a45-9260-fd6a9abecf96_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan woman holds a poster of Afghan journalist Saleha Soadat, candidate for the parliamentary elections, and poses for a photograph in an internal displacement camp in the outskirt of Kabul on October 11. (EPA-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
![A firefighter is covered with Aqueous Film Forming Foam as he tries to control a fire that broke out in a thinner manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9b4b9b11-f0e5-41fb-9787-32c977e7ef58_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A firefighter is covered with Aqueous Film Forming Foam as he tries to control a fire that broke out in a thinner manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
![A search-and-rescue team works at the landing site on the desolate Kazakh steppes of the Soyuz MS-10 space capsule after a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) was aborted due to a problem with a booster rocket. The crew of two landed safely after what is called a "ballistic descent." (TASS)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ed0a3b66-16ba-4cb5-8a31-bd4c3fe13d0a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A search-and-rescue team works at the landing site on the desolate Kazakh steppes of the Soyuz MS-10 space capsule after a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) was aborted due to a problem with a booster rocket. The crew of two landed safely after what is called a "ballistic descent." (TASS)
![Waves crash against houses built on stilts along the shore as Hurricane Michael struck Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida, on October 10. Michael was the third-most-powerful storm to ever strike the U.S. mainland. (Reuters/Steve Nesius)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9e661921-37e9-43fe-bc3a-c14fd33dbed3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Waves crash against houses built on stilts along the shore as Hurricane Michael struck Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida, on October 10. Michael was the third-most-powerful storm to ever strike the U.S. mainland. (Reuters/Steve Nesius)
![Winds in Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida Panhandle on October 10, reached 250 kilometers per hour, strong enough to derail boxcars in Panama City. (AP/Gerald Herbert)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cd0e34ac-223a-42d6-b25a-8020fd43cb7b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Winds in Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida Panhandle on October 10, reached 250 kilometers per hour, strong enough to derail boxcars in Panama City. (AP/Gerald Herbert)
![A visitor attends an annual exhibition of weaponry and military equipment in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/47633aa0-c9db-4b58-a6db-ce79e1a66e82_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A visitor attends an annual exhibition of weaponry and military equipment in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![A participant dances during Kosovo's Pride Parade in Pristina. The second such parade celebrated the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Kosovo. (EPA-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8a55ab4d-ca3c-47ca-8dca-3944210b2d88_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A participant dances during Kosovo's Pride Parade in Pristina. The second such parade celebrated the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Kosovo. (EPA-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
![Young boys look at an installation of Skopje Art District in the old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, Macedonia. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5f943d59-4c89-4484-8db1-95ced9350358_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Young boys look at an installation of Skopje Art District in the old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, Macedonia. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
![Children play at a park in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, near the Russian-leased cosmodrome. (EPA-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/21d68304-07c4-43dd-a2f9-2d5928fc1654_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children play at a park in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, near the Russian-leased cosmodrome. (EPA-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)
![A woman carries a children's balloon with a tank inside during an autumn festival held in central Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9b19af00-332d-404f-af7e-f06b87ffbd3f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman carries a children's balloon with a tank inside during an autumn festival held in central Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
![Ingush protesters take part in a sit-in rally against the new land-swap deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya in the capital, Magas, on October 7. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9596e01d-86ab-4314-be09-c683f720672b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ingush protesters take part in a sit-in rally against the new land-swap deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya in the capital, Magas, on October 7. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)
![A Kashmiri flower vendor paddles his boat along Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b69e047e-fcc8-47d1-ad15-be0404ecab9a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Kashmiri flower vendor paddles his boat along Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
![A Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11. (AP/BIll Ingalls)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0bb9efdb-f1bd-4f3d-abf0-d2ebc525d18b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11. (AP/BIll Ingalls)
![A woman walks by a business in Moscow featuring a stuffed bear in its entrance offering vodka. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4d3dc641-061b-4052-8423-189937b18b4c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks by a business in Moscow featuring a stuffed bear in its entrance offering vodka. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
![A car is left abandoned on a road near the scene of explosions at a Defense Ministry munitions depot in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, northeast of Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/18e33df5-5f18-46da-98ad-5468c43137fe_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A car is left abandoned on a road near the scene of explosions at a Defense Ministry munitions depot in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, northeast of Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![Israelis enjoy a day at the beach on the Israel-Gaza border as black smoke rises in the background from tires set on fire by Palestinian protesters. (AP/Oded Balilty)](https://gdb.rferl.org/441e0da3-d880-4e1d-b2cd-4b507c305511_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Israelis enjoy a day at the beach on the Israel-Gaza border as black smoke rises in the background from tires set on fire by Palestinian protesters. (AP/Oded Balilty)
![Autumnal trees soak up the sunshine in a forest in Nyiregyhaza, east of Budapest, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Zsolt Czegledi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/565982ba-c5ad-40e5-8271-21e07e51bc2b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Autumnal trees soak up the sunshine in a forest in Nyiregyhaza, east of Budapest, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Zsolt Czegledi)