Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 45th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #45
![A man rides in a horse-drawn carriage on a foggy autumn day near the village of Krutilavichy, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d7ee7030-cfad-4b22-97c9-541781328eb5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man rides in a horse-drawn carriage on a foggy autumn day near the village of Krutilavichy, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
![A participant is seen through a Soviet-era truck's window, which reflects a Kremlin tower, during preparations for a historical military parade in Moscow on November 7. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6f07316a-71e4-4e91-9318-5ce0c35e245e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A participant is seen through a Soviet-era truck's window, which reflects a Kremlin tower, during preparations for a historical military parade in Moscow on November 7. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
![Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah on the Syrian border with Turkey on November 8. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)](https://gdb.rferl.org/85537137-2a54-4fca-b1f6-6fd419d969a2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah on the Syrian border with Turkey on November 8. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
![A Pakistani demonstrator rests under a makeshift plastic tent to avoid cold weather during the so-called Freedom March, a rally organized by Islamist politicians to protest against Prime Minister Imran Khan's government in Islamabad. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)](https://gdb.rferl.org/656bb42c-0f93-4426-9dbc-7fa9de007548_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Pakistani demonstrator rests under a makeshift plastic tent to avoid cold weather during the so-called Freedom March, a rally organized by Islamist politicians to protest against Prime Minister Imran Khan's government in Islamabad. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
![A Ukrainian soldier patrols by a destroyed coal mine of Butovka at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far from the town of Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region. (AFP/Anatoliy Stepanov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f6c814e5-88ea-4b49-a072-14205cf3dba1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian soldier patrols by a destroyed coal mine of Butovka at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far from the town of Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region. (AFP/Anatoliy Stepanov)
![An internally displaced Afghan girl looks on as she holds a doll inside her temporary home at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/1f4cbb02-f0a7-4e0b-a2a1-027f5b78f2e3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An internally displaced Afghan girl looks on as she holds a doll inside her temporary home at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
![German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen (left) and William Taylor, the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine, look at a map inside a car in the town of Zolote in the Luhansk region on November 7. (epa-EFE/Sergei Kozlov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3a133243-0810-4178-8842-526a67b4e3cf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen (left) and William Taylor, the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine, look at a map inside a car in the town of Zolote in the Luhansk region on November 7. (epa-EFE/Sergei Kozlov)
![A zookeeper carries a pelican to to its winter enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David Cerny)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d900eca6-1c70-412b-b168-32e936881f09_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A zookeeper carries a pelican to to its winter enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David Cerny)
![Anti-government protesters set a fire while security forces fire live ammunition and tear gas at a demonstration near state TV in Baghdad. (AP/Hadi Mizban)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e141eba7-32d9-4e89-85bc-4e0f07fd0b4a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Anti-government protesters set a fire while security forces fire live ammunition and tear gas at a demonstration near state TV in Baghdad. (AP/Hadi Mizban)
![Afghan women harvest saffron flowers, a lucrative alternative to opium poppies, in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/559553cd-d2b7-4904-b23c-f0c6b86fe7ea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan women harvest saffron flowers, a lucrative alternative to opium poppies, in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
![Pedestrians cast shadows during a sunny autumn day in the center of Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2254b228-aff4-41df-9a73-79d537894403_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pedestrians cast shadows during a sunny autumn day in the center of Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
![Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple as part of the religious festival of Rakher Upabash in Narayangonj, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)](https://gdb.rferl.org/77b8f75d-e504-4c90-895d-67fb31a34308_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple as part of the religious festival of Rakher Upabash in Narayangonj, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
![An Iraqi protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashes victory signs during a protest and strike in a central Baghdad square. (epa-EFE/Murtaja Lateef) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/51b23932-4758-43bd-8b29-3db1eb548759_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashes victory signs during a protest and strike in a central Baghdad square. (epa-EFE/Murtaja Lateef)
![In Islamabad, Pakistan, a supporter of the religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam plays the traditional game of "topai" (cap) during an opposition march to protest the government. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)](https://gdb.rferl.org/36bb832c-357f-4db4-8d2c-e04890d8389e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In Islamabad, Pakistan, a supporter of the religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam plays the traditional game of "topai" (cap) during an opposition march to protest the government. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
![Pigeons flying outside the Karti Sakhi shrine at sunset in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/47a0303c-0619-4742-8452-4a5252089426_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pigeons flying outside the Karti Sakhi shrine at sunset in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
![A car falls down in a hole caused by burst heating pipe in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on November 5. (AP/Sergey Ristenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bd85a7ea-423d-4817-bd53-0809fb41a9d9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A car falls down in a hole caused by burst heating pipe in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on November 5. (AP/Sergey Ristenko)
![A pedestrian walks past a mural painted on the wall of a house in the town of Ferizaj, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4d86466e-4fc0-4a0d-9702-1577e34ffe7a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A pedestrian walks past a mural painted on the wall of a house in the town of Ferizaj, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
![Hindu women worship the sun god in the polluted waters of the River Yamuna during the religious festival of Chatth Puja in New Delhi. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b3a9e2b8-3f22-459f-ae9c-f713a3c610da_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hindu women worship the sun god in the polluted waters of the River Yamuna during the religious festival of Chatth Puja in New Delhi. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)