Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 41st week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #41
- By RFE/RL
1
A Belarusian protester makes a defiant gesture as police use a water-cannon truck to disperse an anti-government rally in Minsk on October 11. (AFP)
2
Rival opposition supporters clash at a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on October 9. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
3
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya waits ahead of a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Bratislava on October 8. (epa-EFE/Jakub Gavlak)
4
A soccer fan, wearing a protective face mask in a deserted stand, watches a Euro 2020 qualifying game between Bulgaria and Hungary in Sofia on October 8. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)
5
A man with physical disabilities sits on a street in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
6
A sapper works next to an unexploded BM-30 Smerch rocket allegedly fired by Armenian forces in the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, near the Mingacevir Hydropower Station in the town of Mingacevir. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
7
A man rides a horse at sunset in Afghanistan's western Herat Province. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
8
Shi'ite Muslims take part in a religious procession to mark the 40th day of mourning after the death anniversary of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
9
Afghan farmers work in a field to sun dry pomegranate seeds in Kandahar. (AFP/Javed Tanveer)
10
Police use a water cannon against demonstrators during a rally in Minsk, Belarus. Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have been protesting daily since the August 9 presidential election. (AP)
11
Smoke rises from the site of a fire at an ammunition depot in Russia's Ryazan region. (Courtesy of Instagram @KORABLINO/Social Media via Reuters)
12
People take refuge in a bomb shelter in Stepanakert (Xankandi), the main city of the breakaway region Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 6. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
13
A toy lies inside a house damaged by recent shelling in the settlement of Tazakand in the Agdam region in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (epa-EFE/Aziz Karimov)
14
A girl walks near a hotel where refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have been accommodated in the Armenian border city of Goris. (TASS/Sergei Bobylev)
15
A giant billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, wishing him a speedy recovery from COVID-19, is displayed in the village of Slatina, just west of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, on October 6. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
16
A protester waves a Kyrgyz flag during a rally against the results of a disputed parliamentary vote in Bishkek on October 5. (AP/Vladimir Voronin)
17
Ukrainian servicemen drape national flags over the coffins of air force cadets who died in a transport plane crash last month, during a farewell ceremony in the center of Kharkiv. (AFP/Sergey Borok)
18
Demonstrators hold up pictures of missing relatives, whom Pakistani human rights activists claim have been picked up by state agencies, primarily under the pretext of fighting terrorism, during a protest in Karachi on October 4. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
19
A woman looks out the window of an apartment house after shelling by Azerbaijani artillery in Stepanakert, the main city in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 4. (epa-EFE/David Ghahramanyan)
20
People stand next to a destroyed car in a damaged area of the city of Ganca following a reported Armenian rocket strike on October 4. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
