Photos Of The Week #38
- By RFE/RL
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 38th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.

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A woman reacts as she is confronted by Belarusian police during an anti-government march, mostly by women, in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on September 19. Police detained dozens of protesters who were challenging the results of an August 9 presidential election that declared incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka the landslide winner. Thousands have been detained and beaten by police, while nearly all the opposition's key leaders have been forced to leave the country or been arrested in a widening crackdown. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)

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A man walks on a bridge at the Zaryadye park in front of the Kremlin's cathedral in central Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)

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Hasidic Jewish pilgrims gather in front of Ukrainian border guards at the Novaya Guta checkpoint near Novaya Guta, Belarus, on September 18. Ukrainian officials said that thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stuck on the Ukrainian border due to coronavirus restrictions have started turning back. About 2,000 ultra Orthodox Jewish pilgrims traveled to Belarus's border with Ukraine in hope of traveling to the Ukrainian city of Uman to visit the grave of an important Hasidic rabbi who died in 1810. (AP)

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Muscovites walk during heavy rain in the Russian capital. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

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Supporters of embattled Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka wave Belarus national flags as they attend an event in Minsk on September 17. (AFP)

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A combine harvester loads a truck with wheat during harvesting in Russia's Omsk region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)

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A employee from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry inspects a flooded street in the Nanaisky district of the Khabarovsk region on September 16. (TASS)

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Workers harvest tobacco at the Fejerto Cooperative in Ofeherto, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Attila Balazs)

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People walk through a passageway on a sunny day in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)

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Afghan boys ride on a donkey cart, transporting plastic bottles for recycling on the outskirts of Kabul. (epa-EFE/Heyadatullah Amid)

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Students from Kyiv's Olympic College perform during a rally in front of Ukraine's parliament building on September 15. Students were protesting against the reorganization of the college, which is at risk of being closed. The land on which it sits could end up for sale, along with the facility’s stadium. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)

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A young Hasidic Jew traveling to the Ukrainian city of Uman for an annual pilgrimage is prevented from crossing into the country from Belarus due to coronavirus restrictions. (BelaPAN via Reuters)

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People walk down an underpass during sunset in Moscow on September 15. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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A boy rides a scooter near the Novodevichy Convent in central Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobinov)

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A model wearing a creation rides a horse during an outdoor fashion show for collections by Crimean designers near Ak-Kaya Rock in the Belgorsk district of Crimea during Crimean Fashion Week. (TASS/Sergei Malgavko)

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Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny poses on September 15 with family members at Charite hospital in Berlin, where was is being treated for severe poisoning. (Courtesy of Instagram @NAVALNY via Reuters)

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Women take a selfie during the annual Colors of Autumn festival in the botanical garden of Moscow State University. More than 50 new and rare varieties of chrysanthemums and the largest pumpkins in Russia are being presented at the festival. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

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Students attend a class at a school in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 15 after educational institutions were reopened nearly six months after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)

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A father with his son wearing a protective face mask wait in front of a school in Bucharest on September 14, where classes started again after the summer break. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

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Afghan Army soldiers attend a training session in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)

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A truck drives in a flooded street in the aftermath of a dam collapse in the Russian village of Leninskoye on the Amur River. (TASS/Aleksandr Muzyka)