Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 42nd week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #42
- By RFE/RL

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A woman takes a selfie with yellow leaves in a park in Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

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A French bulldog named Nord Boss stands on the back of his owner, Natasha, while they skateboard in Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)

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Timur Xaligov carries the body of his 10-month-old daughter Narin, who was killed with five other relatives, including her mother, Sevil, when a rocket hit their home during fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Ganca, Azerbaijan, on October 17. (Reuters/Umit Bektas)

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A wounded Armenian soldier receives treatment in the basement of a medical center outside Stepanakert, the main city of Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 14, amid ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

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Sunset over a communist-era block of flats in Bucharest (Reuters/Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea)

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A duck swims in a river in which houses are reflected in the center of Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

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A boy collects recyclable waste from a dump on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)

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A woman runs along an embankment of the Moskva River in Moscow on October 16. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)

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Members of a Hungarian circus company perform a dance on the stage of the Budapest Arts Palace. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

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Relatives in Yerevan mourn by the coffin of a soldier killed in the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)

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Russia's Artem Dzyuba (left) and Hungary's Willi Orban jump for the ball during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Russia and Hungary at Dinamo Stadium in Moscow on October 14. The teams played to a goalless draw. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

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Stretchers are seen outside a hospital that, according to the Foreign Ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, was damaged during recent shelling by Azerbaijani armed forces, in the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Martakert on October 15. (Reuters/Stringer)

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A statue of Vladimir Lenin in Yekaterinburg wears a face mask that says, "Protect Yourself And The Ones You Love." A group of medical volunteers put face masks on local statues with the consent of local authorities. (TASS/Donat Sorokin)

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Construction workers paint a building at a site near Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

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A wounded soldier receives treatment in the basement of a medical center outside the city of Stepanakert on October 14 during ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

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Activists from various Ukrainian nationalist parties attend a rally in downtown Kyiv on October 14. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)

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A passenger wears a protective mask at a metro station in Moscow. (TASS/Vladimir Gerdo)

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A boy holds a large bat after catching it while it was feeding in a persimmon orchard in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)

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A flock of starlings looks for food over a field of reaped sunflowers near Inke, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Gyorgy Varga)

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An unexploded BM-30 Smerch missile is seen on the outskirts of Stepanakert on October 12 during the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

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Belarusian pensioners argue with a law enforcement officer during a rally to demand the resignation of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and a new presidential election in Minsk on October 12. (AFP/Stringer)

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Afghans flee their villages after fighting intensified between Taliban militants and security forces in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of restive Helmand Province, on October 12. The clashes come as both the Taliban and Afghan government are in the process of taking peace talks forward in Doha. (epa-EFE/Watan Yar)

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A woman waves rainbow flags as she takes part in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride parade in Pristina on October 12. (AFP/ Armend Nimani)

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People stand behind caution tape as rescuers search for victims or survivors at a blast site hit by a rocket in the city of Ganca, Azerbaijan, during the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on October 11.

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Retired police officer Genadiy Avanesyan, 73, searches for belongings in the remains of his house, which was said to be destroyed by Azerbaijani shelling, in the city of Stepanakert, the main city in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 10. (AFP/Aris Messinis)