Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 27th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #27
- By RFE/RL

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Karachi residents cool off as water sprays from a pipeline during a hot summer's day in a slum area of the Pakistani city on July 2. (AFP/Asif Hassan)

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An activist takes part in a protest against amendments to Russia's constitution in St. Petersburg on July 2. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

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A man walks on a deserted street backdropped by the Old Bridge in Mostar, one of Bosnia's best-known landmarks. Hundreds of workers in Bosnia's tourism industry joined a protest against the government's ban on EU residents visiting the Balkan country, saying that thousands of them will lose their jobs unless the borders are open for EU citizens, as the industry cannot survive solely on visitors from Serbia, Croatia, or Montenegro.(AP/Kemal Softic)

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Members of a Russian stunt team perform on Traffic Police Day. (TASS/Vladimir Gerdo)

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Women wearing Belarusian national dress sit on the embankment as they wait to take part in a concert on the eve of Independence Day in Minsk on July 2. (AP/Sergei Grits)

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People stand on a bridge at Zaryadye park with a Stalin-era skyscraper and the Kremlin's tower in the background in central Moscow. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP)

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Mourners watch gravediggers burying a person who presumably died of COVID-19 in the special-purpose section of a graveyard on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

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A graduate fills a huge glass with sparkling wine as he and his classmates celebrate after receiving diplomas at the Military Academy of Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

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An Iranian woman mourns victims at the scene of an explosion at the Sina Athar health center in Tehran. Iranian state media outlets reported at least 19 deaths. The blast was blamed on as gas canisters that caught fire in the clinic's basement. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)

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People watch as firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at a building in central Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)

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Afghan workers process raisins at a factory in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Razayee)

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Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinovic poses for a photo in Belgrade. (epa-EFE/Andrej Cukic)

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Students take a university entrance exam in Belgrade on June 30 amid a coronavirus outbreak in the Serbian capital. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)

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First responders carry away a woman on a wheelchair at the scene of an explosion at the Sina At'har health center in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on June 30. (ISNA-AFP/Amir Kholousi)

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A woman runs along a bridge in front of a Stalin-era skyscraper in central Moscow on June 29. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)

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A Serbian man attaches candles on a wall of the Gazimestan memorial as he takes part in a ceremony marking the historic Battle of Kosovo at a memorial in Gazimestan, on the outskirts of Pristina, Kosovo, on June 28. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

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A Serbian man holds a crucifix at the same commemoration in Gazimestan. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

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Visitors enjoy a ride at the open-air aquapark Dreamland in Minsk. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)