Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 28th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #28
- By RFE/RL
![Band-e-Amir National Park, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, opened to visitors and tourists on July 12 following its closure amid efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. (RFE/RL/Gulamiz Sharifi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8e45640c-dce8-454d-a438-b486f904e89d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Band-e-Amir National Park, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, opened to visitors and tourists on July 12 following its closure amid efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. (RFE/RL/Gulamiz Sharifi)
![A man checks the teeth of a sacrificial animal to determine its age at a market ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival in Peshawar, Pakistan, on July 9. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)](https://gdb.rferl.org/66671f5c-2793-452f-b05f-3ea2e8db5e4e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man checks the teeth of a sacrificial animal to determine its age at a market ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival in Peshawar, Pakistan, on July 9. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)
![A quarter of a century after the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the remains of nine more victims were laid to rest at the Potocari memorial cemetery in a ceremony on July 11. (RFE/RL/Sadik Salimovic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/38ece7c2-49d0-4add-a77d-42ce5566a465_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A quarter of a century after the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the remains of nine more victims were laid to rest at the Potocari memorial cemetery in a ceremony on July 11. (RFE/RL/Sadik Salimovic)
![Fishermen wait for the fish to bite on a bridge over the Dnipro River in the early hours of the morning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogrienko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3547c7a1-cb53-4cf2-a5ae-279b6b3b5d23_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Fishermen wait for the fish to bite on a bridge over the Dnipro River in the early hours of the morning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogrienko)
![A model presents a creation by Belarusian designer Natalya Kostroma during Ethical Fashion Show #3 in Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c32ab42e-ca61-4664-b310-5bd1d97c2681_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A model presents a creation by Belarusian designer Natalya Kostroma during Ethical Fashion Show #3 in Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
![An injured demonstrator receives aid during a protest against a lockdown planned for the Serbian capital, Belgrade, this weekend to halt the spread of the coronavirus. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fc79c6aa-e94c-4b09-b510-61d4ed498d63_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An injured demonstrator receives aid during a protest against a lockdown planned for the Serbian capital, Belgrade, this weekend to halt the spread of the coronavirus. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![Bosnians, some of them survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, walk through a mountain area near Crni Vrh on July 8 during a peace march recreating the path take 25 years ago by people trying to escape advancing Serb forces. The event commemorates the more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who perished 25 years ago during 10 days of slaughter after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995, during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (AP/Kemal Softic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4e428a2d-317d-43ba-b7a3-4967645e2e8a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Bosnians, some of them survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, walk through a mountain area near Crni Vrh on July 8 during a peace march recreating the path take 25 years ago by people trying to escape advancing Serb forces. The event commemorates the more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who perished 25 years ago during 10 days of slaughter after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995, during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (AP/Kemal Softic)
![Ukrianian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (center) visited the Luhansk region to survey the damage from large-scale forest fires on July 8.](https://gdb.rferl.org/76a96219-26cc-4461-98f1-b713627da482_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrianian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (center) visited the Luhansk region to survey the damage from large-scale forest fires on July 8.
![Protesters rally in support of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on July 8. (RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3485551a-777b-4668-9913-da13f966e827_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Protesters rally in support of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on July 8. (RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
![A man kneels during protesters' clashes with police outside the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade on July 7. (epa-EFE/Koca Sulejmanovic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/def378d7-c451-41a7-a47a-74b5526720d1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man kneels during protesters' clashes with police outside the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade on July 7. (epa-EFE/Koca Sulejmanovic)
![A man steers his stand-up paddleboard at sunset on the Velikaya River in Pskov, southwest of St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c28c71d9-dec3-46c4-ab4d-ec8b07652842_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man steers his stand-up paddleboard at sunset on the Velikaya River in Pskov, southwest of St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
![Bishkek residents wait for their turn to receive medical care near a hospital in the Kyrgyz capital. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e89e9cd2-6cdc-47b3-9709-d37100d94b71_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Bishkek residents wait for their turn to receive medical care near a hospital in the Kyrgyz capital. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
![The full moon is pictured behind the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a491e29e-5771-4b24-bdec-c5ffa3cf0154_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The full moon is pictured behind the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![Serbian soldiers prepare a makeshift field hospital to accommodate patients infected by COVID-19 inside the Belgrade Arena on July 6. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/df5aeebf-c947-4573-b2f2-ea424a0134d9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serbian soldiers prepare a makeshift field hospital to accommodate patients infected by COVID-19 inside the Belgrade Arena on July 6. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)
![People take part in a free hike organized by the Chechen Tourism Ministry to mark the lifting of the self-isolation regime and the start of the hiking season on July 4. (TASS/Yelena Afonina)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9f2d09dd-eaaa-4ee2-adba-8344ce8289f8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People take part in a free hike organized by the Chechen Tourism Ministry to mark the lifting of the self-isolation regime and the start of the hiking season on July 4. (TASS/Yelena Afonina)
![Members of the Rus marine unit of the Historical Reenactment Club sail the Volkhov (Magi) boat in St. Petersburg's Neva Bay on July 5. (TASS/Pyotr Kovalyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/35eeb5df-baf7-4e51-9de2-ba9be1a2a9fb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the Rus marine unit of the Historical Reenactment Club sail the Volkhov (Magi) boat in St. Petersburg's Neva Bay on July 5. (TASS/Pyotr Kovalyev)
![Pakistani men ride on a donkey and cart during monsoon rains in Karachi. (AFP/Asif Hassan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0a816f05-fc7a-4456-a8d4-2b0d4ec9d264_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani men ride on a donkey and cart during monsoon rains in Karachi. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
![A girl throws a wreath of flowers into a river as part of a folk celebration in Belarus. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/068b8965-2e42-44f0-80a6-025c0230096b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl throws a wreath of flowers into a river as part of a folk celebration in Belarus. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)
![An apartment building in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4dc501ca-958e-4ff1-b3f0-7530d36e7389_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An apartment building in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![A woman waits at a public transport stop in central Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8031df51-5d97-4711-a85f-d2320632547a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman waits at a public transport stop in central Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![Afghan orphans visit an orphanage's library in Herat. NATO's Resolute Support Mission helped the orphanage renovate the library and provided several books. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fd9c54c7-4015-4079-8f76-7524e9ae1d68_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan orphans visit an orphanage's library in Herat. NATO's Resolute Support Mission helped the orphanage renovate the library and provided several books. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
![An Iranian girl travels on a public bus in the city of Zanjan, some 330 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b2ccdf50-ce89-40de-a08c-a6a6734d18f1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian girl travels on a public bus in the city of Zanjan, some 330 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)