Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 39th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #39
- By RFE/RL
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A protester rides her bike in front of Belarusian police officers during a rally to protest against the presidential inauguration in Minsk. (epa-EFE/STR)
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Young people play cricket at sunset in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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An Afghan Army soldier flashes the victory sign from an armored vehicle during a training session in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A migrant worker from Uzbekistan walks into a sunflower field near a tent camp in the Kinel district of Russia's Samara region. (TASS/Albert Dzen)
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A woman reacts near Belarusian law enforcement officers, who brutally dispersed crowds during protests against the inauguration of Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on September 23. (Tut.by via Reuters)
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Tourists walk in the valley of the Kyzylchin River in the Kosh-Agach region of the Altai Republic in Siberia. (TASS)
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Ukrainian soldiers hold a dog wearing protective glasses during the Rapid Trident-2020 military exercises near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Some 4,000 soldiers from nine countries including the United States, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Romania, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, and Ukraine tooks part. (epa-EFE/Mykola Tys)
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Police officers stand guard near the Indian High Commission, while members of the Pakistani Hindu community stage a sit-in protest in Islamabad. Pakistan's minority Hindus rallied to protest the deaths of 11 members of a Hindu migrant family who died in India last month under mysterious circumstances. The protesters accuse India's secret service of poisoning the victims, who were found dead at a farmhouse in India's Jodhpur district in Rajasthan state. (AP/A.M. Chaudary)
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A zookeeper holds a flamingo during the vaccination of birds at a zoo after Kazakhstan reported several outbreaks of the highly pathogenic bird flu in the country, in Almaty. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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Pakistani students wearing face masks arrive to attend lectures on the first day of school after the resumption of classes of higher grades in Peshawar on September 23. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
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A rocket launches from a S-300 missile system during the Caucasus-2020 military drills at the Ashuluk military base in Russia's Astrakhan region on September 22. (TASS/Russian Defense Ministry)
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Afghan children carrying a sack with garbage walk past a mural along a roadside in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A crew member looks through a window of Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika before leaving the port of St. Petersburg on September 22. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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Afghans hold placards in the western city of Herat as they rally to support the Doha peace talks between Taliban and the Afghan government on September 21. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A boy rides his bicycle on a road in the old part of Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A woman flashes the victory sign during an opposition demonstration in Minsk on September 20. (AFP)
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A doctor walks in a disinfection tunnel at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Pristina, Kosovo. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
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A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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A zookeeper carries a pelican during the vaccination of birds at a zoo in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
