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
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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)
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A woman carries half a mannequin as she emerges from an underground passage in central Moscow, Russia. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen during practice before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 23. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)
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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)
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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)
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A Chinese man takes a nap in a park on a winter afternoon in downtown Beijing. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
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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)
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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)
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An Indian laborer sweeps at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Gauhati. (AP/Anupam Nath)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Jacob Saylors, 11, walks through the burned remains of his home in Paradise, California, on November 18. (AFP/Josh Edelson)
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An Afghan boy stands in the sun on a hilltop overlooking Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail )
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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)
