Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 37th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #37
- By RFE/RL
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An elderly woman begs for money in an underpass in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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A man carrying an old Belarusian national flag takes part in an anti-government rally in Hrodna on September 13. (RFE/RL)
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A Pakistani health worker disinfects a classroom before the reopening of educational institutions in Karachi on September 10. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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Iranian paratroopers take part in a military drill in the Gulf of Oman. (Reuters)
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A protester gestures after writing "Impeachment" on a wall during a demonstration outside the Ukrainian presidential residence near Kyiv on September 10. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
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A protester holds a large Bulgarian flag as he attends an anti-government demonstration in Sofia on September 10. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
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A protester holding pictures of France's Eiffel Tower and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, takes part in a protest to condemn the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for republishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in front of the French Embassy in Tehran on September 9. (WANA via Reuters/Majid Asgaripour)
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Children play in puddles of wastewater on a street in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
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Belarusian women activists resist police attempting to detain them as they gathered to support opposition leader Maryya Kalesnikava in Minsk on September 8. Kalesnikava has said the authorities put a bag over her head and threatened to kill her when they tried to forcibly deport her earlier this week. Kalesnikava was snatched from the streets of Minsk on September 7 by masked men along with two staffers. When they arrived in a no-man's land between the countries, Kalesnikava ripped her passport into small pieces to make it impossible for the authorities to expel her. (epa-EFE/Stringer)
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A staff member of a local branch of the Russian Communist Party washes a huge monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in front the party's local office in Novosibirsk. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)
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A municipality worker carries an injured chicken after an explosion in Kabul on September 9. (epa-EFE/Jawad Jalali)
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Activists argue with law enforcement officers during a rally in support of detained Belarusian opposition leader Maryya Kalesnikava in Minsk on September 8. (Tut.by via Reuters)
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A girl rides a horse on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
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A handwoven image of German Chanceller Angela Merkel hangs on a wall as Afghan women attend a carpet-weaving class as part of vocational training in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A boy rides a bicycle past graffiti in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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Pakistani Air Force cadets parade at the mausoleum of their country's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on Defense Day in Karachi. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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Belarusian police officers detain an opposition supporter during an anti-government rally in Minsk. (Tut.by/AFP)
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Protesters light torches at a pro-government rally in Podgorica, Montenegro. (AP/Risto Bozovic)
