Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 47th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #47
![A man holds a Soviet flag as he stands on a pier during the opening of the cold-water swimming season in the Black Sea town of Saky, Crimea, on November 24. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/048376aa-ea7d-463f-99cc-4bff5a27eb15_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man holds a Soviet flag as he stands on a pier during the opening of the cold-water swimming season in the Black Sea town of Saky, Crimea, on November 24. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)
![A woman carries half a mannequin as she emerges from an underground passage in central Moscow, Russia. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/673df415-6b00-4cc6-ac40-814d29130be1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman carries half a mannequin as she emerges from an underground passage in central Moscow, Russia. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
![Red Bull's Max Verstappen during practice before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 23. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)](https://gdb.rferl.org/55975ff6-bdc4-46bb-82b6-ed00c0c56e4f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen during practice before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 23. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)
![Grigory Broverman, a member of the Cryophile winter-swimmers club, pours a bucket of cold water over his 9-year-old daughter Liza during a celebration of Polar Bear Day at a zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on November 24. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6cccd4d6-dd85-4da6-a836-5d579b4e07d6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Grigory Broverman, a member of the Cryophile winter-swimmers club, pours a bucket of cold water over his 9-year-old daughter Liza during a celebration of Polar Bear Day at a zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on November 24. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
![A person takes selfies on Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on November 22 after the Christmas lights were turned on. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/17e9bc2d-5e9a-4c43-af98-095794380dd5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A person takes selfies on Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on November 22 after the Christmas lights were turned on. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
![A Chinese man takes a nap in a park on a winter afternoon in downtown Beijing. (Reuters/Jason Lee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ae242736-5b02-49ac-b662-abf868dae879_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Chinese man takes a nap in a park on a winter afternoon in downtown Beijing. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
![An Indian Sikh youth demonstrates martial arts skills during a procession on the eve of the 549th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on November 22. (AFP/Narinder Nanu)](https://gdb.rferl.org/dc41e62d-5b7f-436b-b3d7-2740f368fb55_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Indian Sikh youth demonstrates martial arts skills during a procession on the eve of the 549th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on November 22. (AFP/Narinder Nanu)
![A man poses for a picture on a pedestrian bridge at the Zaryadye Park, with a power plant in the background, in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9acada6b-4e9f-4356-8844-826cc9a1f192_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man poses for a picture on a pedestrian bridge at the Zaryadye Park, with a power plant in the background, in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)
![An Indian laborer sweeps at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Gauhati. (AP/Anupam Nath)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bfb7aeb1-f4b5-4455-855a-d713d82e54c3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Indian laborer sweeps at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Gauhati. (AP/Anupam Nath)
![Visitors attend a presentation of the Artefact digital sculpture, which addresses problems of fake news, post-truth, and manipulation in media, at the central square of the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on November 22. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/acaeadbc-8dfd-49ab-9bca-08ea86969ee0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Visitors attend a presentation of the Artefact digital sculpture, which addresses problems of fake news, post-truth, and manipulation in media, at the central square of the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on November 22. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![Ukrainian servicemen rest as they take part in a drill of the airborne troops in the region of Zhytomyr. (AFP/Serhiy Supinskyy) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/f0c46465-8495-439e-a198-264b46c07b5e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian servicemen rest as they take part in a drill of the airborne troops in the region of Zhytomyr. (AFP/Serhiy Supinskyy)
![Indian women take pictures on a boat as migratory birds fly overhead on the Yamuna River on a morning of heavy air pollution in New Delhi. (AFP/Noemi Cassanelli)](https://gdb.rferl.org/04789a3a-033f-4f2d-9253-31cf8a803c81_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Indian women take pictures on a boat as migratory birds fly overhead on the Yamuna River on a morning of heavy air pollution in New Delhi. (AFP/Noemi Cassanelli)
![A man in a wheelchair lays flowers at the memorial for Maidan activists who lost their lives during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Ukrainian Revolution in Kyiv on November 21. (AFP/Genya Savilov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/293f598d-2fa0-4978-a555-17893ab74a60_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man in a wheelchair lays flowers at the memorial for Maidan activists who lost their lives during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Ukrainian Revolution in Kyiv on November 21. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
![A vendor prepares traditional bread during the festival of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad, outside the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fbc8b6cc-4362-4991-8b83-01932e035e7f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A vendor prepares traditional bread during the festival of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad, outside the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
![A demonstrator gestures during a protest against a process of renaming the country North Macedonia in front of the parliament building in Skopje on November 18. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/af876a10-3aa8-4297-8188-ac87f30dc1ae_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A demonstrator gestures during a protest against a process of renaming the country North Macedonia in front of the parliament building in Skopje on November 18. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
![Jacob Saylors, 11, walks through the burned remains of his home in Paradise, California, on November 18. (AFP/Josh Edelson) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/16af11d2-c7f7-4428-ad53-617a3069e562_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Jacob Saylors, 11, walks through the burned remains of his home in Paradise, California, on November 18. (AFP/Josh Edelson)
![An Afghan boy stands in the sun on a hilltop overlooking Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail )](https://gdb.rferl.org/7e4a2b2b-0012-4dfb-ba10-526ebaa50ea5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan boy stands in the sun on a hilltop overlooking Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail )
![A shell falls to Earth during Ukrainian military exercises in the region of Zhytomyr on November 21, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b4e043fa-6982-48e9-84b0-4932b17de3f2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A shell falls to Earth during Ukrainian military exercises in the region of Zhytomyr on November 21, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)