Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 47th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #47
![A woman looks at a wall full of QR codes in a park next to the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/8d517aad-d1bf-4d76-bafa-025863a19ea6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman looks at a wall full of QR codes in a park next to the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
![A woman walks outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. (AP/Francisco Seco)](https://gdb.rferl.org/910c49f0-5f0b-4aaf-8d2c-f08b33951ab1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. (AP/Francisco Seco)
![ A man feeds seagulls with fish under the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)](https://gdb.rferl.org/89c78615-a148-45d3-ba4f-eae57da79258_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man feeds seagulls with fish under the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
![Flowers and candles adorn a memorial for slain Maidan activists on the sixth anniversary of the start of the pro-Western protests in central Kyiv on November 21. (AFP/Genya Savilov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/97820bb4-b886-448e-9133-82ac94405982_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Flowers and candles adorn a memorial for slain Maidan activists on the sixth anniversary of the start of the pro-Western protests in central Kyiv on November 21. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
![Pakistani fishermen return home as the sun sets on a beach in Karachi. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/d9b65297-730d-403f-a880-9a29ba8544d3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani fishermen return home as the sun sets on a beach in Karachi. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
![A woman walks along a street in the old Moscow neighborhood east of the Kremlin known as Kitai-Gorod, which dates from the 1500s,. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ee6b11ee-4fd4-47b4-aada-07c246c2d4de_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks along a street in the old Moscow neighborhood east of the Kremlin known as Kitai-Gorod, which dates from the 1500s,. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![A troupe of Thai performers dance after a Holy Mass by Pope Francis at the National Stadium in Bangkok on November 21. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4d989edb-8536-4f83-b0ca-85e5c2a90e72_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A troupe of Thai performers dance after a Holy Mass by Pope Francis at the National Stadium in Bangkok on November 21. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)
![A Russian beggar woman seeks alms on Tverskaya Street in downtown Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cedfb547-dd13-4986-98df-01b02f3212bb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Russian beggar woman seeks alms on Tverskaya Street in downtown Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
![Illegal migrants gather around a small fire inside their tent at the Vucjak camp on the outskirts of the Bosnian city of Bihac. (AFP/Elvis Barukic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4be2756d-49fb-4d94-bbfa-72453cdec066_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Illegal migrants gather around a small fire inside their tent at the Vucjak camp on the outskirts of the Bosnian city of Bihac. (AFP/Elvis Barukic)
![An Afghan vendor waits for customers at his firewood stall in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6c7fd6be-c314-401a-a781-a905752217fb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan vendor waits for customers at his firewood stall in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
![ A woman carries a basket on her head through a field of vegetables on a foggy morning in the Indian city of Srinagar, Kashmir. (Reuters/Danish Ismail) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/a81e1d81-5645-4c16-bbc0-503453bf90c2_cx0_cy12_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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A woman carries a basket on her head through a field of vegetables on a foggy morning in the Indian city of Srinagar, Kashmir. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
![People walk past a bank that was burned during recent protests in the Iranian town of Shahriar, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a6749c9a-7d99-4b94-9e82-314cbf65fc2d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People walk past a bank that was burned during recent protests in the Iranian town of Shahriar, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
![People get ready to welcome Ukrainian Navy ships upon arrival at a port in Ochakiv, in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, on November 20. The ships were seized by Russia in the Kerch Strait in 2018 and held for almost a year. (AFP/Oleksandr Gimanov) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/33a1ac27-fd29-4ed4-851a-98cf4e80f54b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People get ready to welcome Ukrainian Navy ships upon arrival at a port in Ochakiv, in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, on November 20. The ships were seized by Russia in the Kerch Strait in 2018 and held for almost a year. (AFP/Oleksandr Gimanov)
![A man walks in front of a fire blockade set up by supporters of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales on the outskirts of Sacaba, Chapare Province. (AFP/Ronaldo Scheimdt) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/56848069-6b7b-4cfb-a34c-5a5078cbc6a4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks in front of a fire blockade set up by supporters of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales on the outskirts of Sacaba, Chapare Province. (AFP/Ronaldo Scheimdt)
![Georgian riot police disperse opposition supporters during a protest rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi on November 18. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3381b02d-94db-4d29-9f15-56be6c1cdaf6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Georgian riot police disperse opposition supporters during a protest rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi on November 18. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
![Protesters run from tear gas as they try to reenter the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) after a failed attempt to leave, during clashes with police in Hong Kong on November 18. (Reuters/Thomas Peter) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/1ef8c537-ff45-4a05-886a-8e34be81db03_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Protesters run from tear gas as they try to reenter the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) after a failed attempt to leave, during clashes with police in Hong Kong on November 18. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
![Visitors pass an animation during the press preview of the exhibition Move Little Hands, Move! by Czech surrealists Jan and Eva Svankmajer in Dresden, Germany, on November 18. (epa-EFE/Filip Singer) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/67025388-a0c0-4e2a-be6d-2b5ed3b4b056_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Visitors pass an animation during the press preview of the exhibition Move Little Hands, Move! by Czech surrealists Jan and Eva Svankmajer in Dresden, Germany, on November 18. (epa-EFE/Filip Singer)
![A father and his child visit the Freedom memorial, leftovers of the barbwire fence dividing Austria from the former Czechoslovakia, at Devinska Nova Ves, Slovakia, on November 17. (AFP/Joe Klamar) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/5280ddaa-669e-48d4-a07d-782b75c29f14_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A father and his child visit the Freedom memorial, leftovers of the barbwire fence dividing Austria from the former Czechoslovakia, at Devinska Nova Ves, Slovakia, on November 17. (AFP/Joe Klamar)