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November 12, 2011
Photos Of The Week -- November 5-11

Snow In Iran, A New Government In Greece, Protests In Minsk, And Topless In Zurich.

November 07, 2011
Orumieh, Iran's Dying Lake

Lake Orumieh, or Urmia, in northwestern Iran, was once one of the country’s most beautiful natural wonders. Now, shrunk by drought and mismanagement of rivers, the lake is better known as an environmental disaster. Photos by Abbas Atilay, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service
November 05, 2011
Photos Of The Week -- October 29-November 4

Occupy Oakland, nationalists march in Russia, and 50 years of Turkish guest workers in Germany.
November 04, 2011
Russian Nationalists March In Moscow

Russian ultranationalists marched in a "Russian March" in Moscow on November 4, 2011. Russia marks National Unity Day on November 4, when it celebrates the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612 and replaces a communist celebration of the 1917 revolution.
October 31, 2011
After The Turkish Quake

In the days following Turkey's earthquake, Abbas Atilay, a photographer working for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, traveled to the city of Van, which was one of the places worst affected by the quake. While he was there, he documented the frantic rescue efforts that took place in the immediate aftermath of the quake and also captured images of local residents as they began the slow process of rebuilding their lives.
October 30, 2011
Kyrgyzstan's Presidential Vote On October 30

Polls opened on October 30 for Kyrgyzstan's 3-million-plus registered voters to pick a new president for the first time since bloody protests chased Kurmanbek Bakiev from power a year and a half ago. Interim leader Roza Otunbaeva declined to run, leaving a field of 16 presidential hopefuls to battle it out to lead post-Soviet Central Asia's lone parliamentary democracy. (Photos by RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and official sources)
October 22, 2011
Photos Of The Week -- October 15-21

From prisoner swaps to Greek riots, Kosovo roadblocks, and the undoing of a Libyan dictator.
October 20, 2011
Muammar Qaddafi: Snapshots Of A Strongman

Muammar Qaddafi took power in Libya in 1969 and ruled the North African country until he was deposed in 2011.
October 18, 2011
Policing 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests In U.S.
October 10, 2011
Meet The Residents Of The Samaxi Boarding House

Photographers Abbas Atilay and Ahmed Mukhtar twice visited the Azerbaijani city of Samaxi -- in May and September 2011 -- to meet the residents of a state boarding house for people with mental disorders.
October 08, 2011
Photos Of The Week -- October 1-7

Apple boss Steve Jobs is remembered following his death, as Russia fetes its former/future president.
October 06, 2011
An Innovator's Life: Steve Jobs

A retrospective of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011), the technology entrepreneur who was described after his death on October 5 by U.S. President Barack Obama as "among the greatest of American innovators."

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