Photos Of The Week #43
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 43rd week of 2015. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive by clicking on the banner above.
![A man fishes during a heavy snowfall on the banks of the Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5933e867-f59f-4999-b59b-6498c322138d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man fishes during a heavy snowfall on the banks of the Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
![An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim takes part in a procession ritual during a ceremony marking Ashura, in Tehran, on October 23. (AFP/Atta Kenare)](https://gdb.rferl.org/48237731-ddb5-4c9f-ac09-94f890d351a2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim takes part in a procession ritual during a ceremony marking Ashura, in Tehran, on October 23. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
![A participant poses for a photo during the Interpolitex-2015 exhibition of police and military equipment in Moscow on October 22. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/60f6ad7a-cc55-4eec-ad69-8c2d36c77e3f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A participant poses for a photo during the Interpolitex-2015 exhibition of police and military equipment in Moscow on October 22. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![A child hangs upside down on a fence in a reception center established for migrants near the Slovenian-Austrian border in Sentilj, Slovenia. (epa/Gyorgy Varga)](https://gdb.rferl.org/879b027a-f398-4f59-98e8-59890f73e26a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child hangs upside down on a fence in a reception center established for migrants near the Slovenian-Austrian border in Sentilj, Slovenia. (epa/Gyorgy Varga)
![Ukrainian activists hold a poster with portraits of Constitutional Court judges and placards reading "Judges? Criminals, hands off of lustration's law!" during a rally near the Constitutional Court in Kyiv. (epa/Serhiy Dolzhenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5dc7fe81-9ab0-4929-8487-8a984d4eaec3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian activists hold a poster with portraits of Constitutional Court judges and placards reading "Judges? Criminals, hands off of lustration's law!" during a rally near the Constitutional Court in Kyiv. (epa/Serhiy Dolzhenko)
![South Korean Lee Jeong-suk (left), 68, wipes the tears of her North Korean father, Ri Heung Jong, 88, as they bid farewell following their three-day separated-family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, on October 22. (AFP/Yonhap)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0bafa87a-f4ad-46f5-bfca-f4b887dd098b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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South Korean Lee Jeong-suk (left), 68, wipes the tears of her North Korean father, Ri Heung Jong, 88, as they bid farewell following their three-day separated-family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, on October 22. (AFP/Yonhap)
![A man sells roses outside a Shi'ite mosque during the Islamic month of Muharram, in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa/Shahzaib Akber)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c20107cd-a26d-46c0-8527-75516f9f074a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man sells roses outside a Shi'ite mosque during the Islamic month of Muharram, in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa/Shahzaib Akber)
![A man protects himself from the rain with a plastic trash bag in the "New Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cb26d1b1-76d5-4cd2-acc5-9bac5886778c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man protects himself from the rain with a plastic trash bag in the "New Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)
![Drones fly above conference attendees as they dine beside the ocean during the opening remarks at the beginning of the Wall Street Journal Digital Live event in California. (Reuters/Mike Blake)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3a9c0e18-870d-4168-a482-e0f1d1ab60a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Drones fly above conference attendees as they dine beside the ocean during the opening remarks at the beginning of the Wall Street Journal Digital Live event in California. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
![Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during an Ashura procession in Kabul on October 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/55255bc8-46ae-43a5-9654-a19998e7198a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during an Ashura procession in Kabul on October 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
![Migrants and refugees board a train heading to Serbia from the Macedonian-Greek border. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/26d45318-7fe5-438c-8797-72fb6b4d3ad0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Migrants and refugees board a train heading to Serbia from the Macedonian-Greek border. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
![A mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia. (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/83c03379-5cfd-416e-a19e-cd88889a8202_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia. (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)
![Children look out from the window of a residential building in the Syrian capital, Damascus. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/08f858fe-edc5-4f4e-99be-a60ce2ef0b4d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children look out from the window of a residential building in the Syrian capital, Damascus. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
![A blind elderly man plays the violin as he tries to drum up some money in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. (epa/Roman Pilipey) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/6a1ea5ce-e4bc-4899-950b-7b1ddffc4767_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A blind elderly man plays the violin as he tries to drum up some money in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
![A Pakistani laborer carries a basket of bananas at a fruit market in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a4cefa94-87b8-49e0-a404-af953174cd49_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Pakistani laborer carries a basket of bananas at a fruit market in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
![Afghan men at a brick kiln pile up new bricks in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/62d696fb-a480-4f3d-af2e-b8e85090d401_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan men at a brick kiln pile up new bricks in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
![Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6ccc1080-e8d0-4bb6-b0ea-1202235f0f74_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![An Iranian woman walks past a mural on a street in northwest Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b56529ca-e0bd-41b8-b82d-1beb6ef8a7f1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian woman walks past a mural on a street in northwest Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
![A portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen on an advertising billboard in rebel-held Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AFP/Aleksei Filippov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6e9671fe-df01-4080-b9eb-33dd4e1b61f7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen on an advertising billboard in rebel-held Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AFP/Aleksei Filippov)
![Iraqi Shi'ite fighters launch artillery toward Islamic State militants in Al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, on October 18. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2e654d19-74ff-4e0d-baca-c8583ea80991_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iraqi Shi'ite fighters launch artillery toward Islamic State militants in Al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, on October 18. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)