Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 37th week of 2014. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive by clicking on the banner above.
Photos Of The Week
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A man and woman walk past a Ferrari in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
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Armenian police taking part in exercises at the Arzni airport, close to Yerevan.
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Shi'ite fighters launch rockets during fierce clashes with Islamic State members near Tikrit in northern Iraq on September 12. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)
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Residents carry an injured man out from the debris at a site hit by what activists claim were at least five air strikes by Syrian government forces in Douma near Damascus on September 11. (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)
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An icon and a weapon lie in a bus window in a military camp in Volnovaha town, some 60 km from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on September 11. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
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A Kyrgyz stuntman performs during the first World Nomad Games in the Kyrchin (Semenovskoe) gorge, some 300 kilometers from Bishkek on September 10. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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A photographer clambers along mounds of potassium waste from the local salt mine in the town of Salihorsk, some 140 kilometers south of Minsk, Belarus. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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The “Tribute in Light” illuminates the sky down in the Wall Street area of lower Manhattan in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule shortly after landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Maksim Shipenkov)
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A woman looks at the site of a car-bomb attack in Baghdad. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks over papers while flying from Jordan to Iraq. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
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A Pro-Russian separatist fighter holds a grenade as he stands guard at a checkpoint on a road near the Donetsk airport. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
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A dog at a flooded house following heavy rains in Jhang, Punjab Province, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over Baghdad from a helicopter during a visit to the Iraqi capital on September 10. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
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Improvised mortar shells are seen inside a weapons factory in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire at Islamic State militant positions from their position on the top of Mount Zardak, a strategic point about 25 kilometers east of Mosul. (AFP/JM Lopez)
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Despite a cease-fire, a Ukrainian forces' field camp was destroyed by shelling by pro-Russian militants in the eastern region of Luhansk. (AFP/Sergei Bobok)
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Afghan laborers rest as they work at a leather factory in the Tashqurghan district on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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An "Air" in-flight magazine is pictured at the site where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, near the village of Hrabove in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on September 9. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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Pro-Russian rebels stand near a monument in Donetsk, Ukraine, during a ceremony to honor the World War II defenders of Donetsk from Nazi forces. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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A boy collects items thrown by devotees as religious offerings next to idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, a day after they were immersed in the waters of the Sabarmati River in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani visits Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his prostate operation at a hospital in Tehran. (AFP via Khamenei's website)
24
Ukrainian soldiers check a smoldering army truck after an overnight bombing attack at a Ukrainian Army checkpoint on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol. (AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
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A member of the Guard of Honor of the Presidential Regiment from Russia performs on the final day of the International Military Music Festival on Red Square in Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)
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Members of Russia's Squadron of the Special Guards dressed like Russian soldiers of World War I perform during the closing of the International Military Music Festival on Moscow's Red Square. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)