Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 35th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #35
- By RFE/RL
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A Belarusian opposition supporter gives a Victory-sign from his window as he welcomes a rally to protest against the disputed presidential election results in Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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An ironsmith sharpens knives to be used for flagellation during the sacred month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
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Muslim believers social distancing due to the coronavirus during Friday Prayers at a mosque in the southern Serbian city of Novi Pazar. (AFP/Irfan Licina)
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People descend on steel ropes across the Moskva River in Moscow on August 27. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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Opposition activist Nina Baginskaya, 73, struggles with police during a Belarusian opposition rally in Minsk on August 26. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Belarusian law enforcement officers block the door of a church filled with opposition supporters who protested against presidential election results in Minsk on August 26. (Reuters/Darya Buryakina)
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Young children stack bricks as they work as labourers at a factory on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Belarusian opposition supporters hold up their mobile phones with the flashlights on during a rally to protest against a disputed presidential election result in Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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The sun shines on a large cross during a memorial ceremony for ethnic Serbs who were killed near Plavno village, Croatia, during the Balkan wars. (epa-EFE/Miro Lelas)
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Rescue efforts get under way after heavy flooding in an area of Afghanistan's Parwan Province on August 26. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A family wades through a flooded road after torrential rain in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP/Fareed Khan)
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An Afghan woman walks outside the Karti Sakhi shrine in Kabul. (AP/Mariam Zuhaib)
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A couple walking along the embankment of the Moskva River in Moscow. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
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People, including veterans of the ongoing war against Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, relatives of those killed in the armed conflict, fighters of volunteer battalions and activists, take part in a march on Ukraine's Independence Day in Kyiv on August 24. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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A tank drives through a water obstacle on the course of the tank biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2020 at Alabino range outside Moscow on August 24. (Reuters/Yevgenia Novozhenina)
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An elderly woman walks by serviceman standing behind a barbed-wire fence during a protest in Minsk on August 23. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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A man waves a historical Belarusian flag in front of a riot-police blockade during a protest in Minsk on August 23. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Tourists look at an art installation resembling the structure of the COVID-19 virus, made of plastic water bottles on the beach of Ezerets, Bulgaria. The installation is actually intended to show the pollution of plastic waste in the world's oceans. (epa-EFE/Vasil Donev)
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Russian honor guards wearing protective masks attend the opening ceremony of the sixth International Military Technical Forum Army 2020 and Army Games in the military Patriot Park outside Moscow on August 23. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
!["The Europeans' worry is whether America [is] reverting to a neo-isolationist, anti-globalist, America-first country," says Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. "And my answer would be no, I don't think that's happening."](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-c726-08dbf4d6b04e_cx0_cy3_cw0_w100_r1.jpg)
!["The Europeans' worry is whether America [is] reverting to a neo-isolationist, anti-globalist, America-first country," says Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. "And my answer would be no, I don't think that's happening."](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-c726-08dbf4d6b04e_cx0_cy3_cw0_w33_r1.jpg)