Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 44th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive
Photos Of The Week #44
- By RFE/RL

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An Iranian Army soldier stands in front of a picture of a burned U.S. flag during an anti-American demonstration marking the the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, on November 4.

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A man eats sugarcane in a field on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.

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A shepherd watches his flock graze on a pasture near a coal-fired power plant in the town of Obilic, Kosovo.

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A car floats on a flooded street in Otes, near Sarajevo.

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Serbia's Novak Djokovic arrives to play against Hungary's Marton Fucsovics during their men's singles tennis match at the ATP Paris Masters in Paris on November 2.

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Birds sit on wires on a foggy morning in Russia's Ostankino district north of Moscow.

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Ukrainian medics treat patients suffering from COVID-19 at a mobile hospital in the town of Kakhovka in the Kherson region.

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Iranian women walk past a mural on a street in Tehran.

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A view of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Moscow International Business Center in fog. The Russian Hydrometeorological Center issued a yellow weather alert for Moscow and the Moscow region due to dense fog, with visibility reduced to 200 to 700 meters.

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A Bulgarian soldier repairs a protective fence at the Bulgarian-Turkish border near the village of Matochina. The Bulgarian government has urged urgent repairs to the fencing, which prevents the entry of refugees from Turkey.

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An Afghan health worker looks through shattered the window of a clinic after deadly bomb blasts and an attack on a military hospital by Islamic State militants in Kabul on November 2.

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A view of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square. Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Moscow authorities declared nonworking days with pay from October 28 to November 7.

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A vendor displays variety of cross necklaces outside a graveyard where Christian families were visiting on All Souls' Day in Karachi, Pakistan, on November 2.

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A patient with COVID-19 lies in an intensive care unit at a regional hospital in Krasnodar in southern Russia.

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A satellite picture shows Russian ground forces deployed in Yelnya on November 1.

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Police check vaccination certificates among passengers on public transport in Kyiv on November 1 amid new restrictions to stem a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths attributed to low vaccination rates.

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A boy rides a horse next to the Qargha Reservoir on the outskirts of Kabul.

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Supporters of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party celebrate victory in local elections at party headquarters in Skopje on October 31.

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People light candles during a vigil in memory of the victims of the Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest. On October 30, 2015, 64 people died and hundreds were injured inside the Bucharest club during a fire that triggered a wave of anti-corruption protests and a nationwide debate about administrative incompetence, bribery, and safety standards.

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Hassina, 10, an Afghan girl displaced with her family fleeing the violence in their province, leans against a tree at a displaced-persons camp in Kabul.

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DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN - OCTOBER 29, 2021: A man cooks pilau at the Oshi Palav festival held at the Navruzgokh state enterprise. Some 3.5-4 tons of pilau have been cooked in the largest cooking pot during the festival. Nozim Kalandarov/TASS

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People walk on Red Square amid a coronavirus shutdown in Moscow, Russia.