Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 22nd week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (45 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #22
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A worker arranges Romania's national flag during a Guinness World Record attempt for the world's biggest national flag in Clinceni, near Bucharest. The flag, measuring 349 meters by 227 meters, established a new world record. It used 70 kilometers of thread and took weeks to sew. (Reuters/Bogdan Cristel)
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An aerial view of Romania's national flag during a successful Guinness World Record attempt for the world's biggest national flag in Clinceni, near Bucharest. The flag measures 349 meters by 227 meters. (Reuters/Bogdan Cristel)
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Ethnic Miao men dance with their guns during a performance for tourists in the village of Basha in Guizhou Province, China. The village, an old ethnic Miao settlement with a population of 2,200, is believed to be the last community authorized by the government to keep guns. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
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Shinnyo-en Buddhist monks and devotees place lanterns on the water during a ceremony marking remembrance and reflection on Memorial Day in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Reuters/Hugh Gentry)
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Smoke from deadly explosions billow in the background as supporters watch Iraq playing a friendly match against Liberia at Al-Shaab Stadium in Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
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People walk on a bridge over the Vardar River at sunset in Skopje, Macedonia. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of "The Rite of Spring" ballet at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. One-hundred years ago this week, the premiere of Russian emigre composer Igor Stravinsky's pounding, pagan, pulsating "The Rite of Spring" caused a near riot in Paris and changed the face of modern music. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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Turkish demonstrators kiss to protest against moral warnings issued at subway stations in Ankara. Subway officials have asked passengers "to act in accordance with moral rules" after spotting a couple kissing. (AFP)
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Comic fan Wayne Adams wears his homemade mask as he poses for a photograph at the MCM London ComicCon 2013 at the ExCel center in east London. The four-day conference showcases films, video games, science fiction, and anime from far and wide. (AFP/Leon Neal)
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Pakistani youth enjoy swimming in a river canal on a hot day in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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French actress Lea Seydoux (left), Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, and French actress Adele Exarchopoulos after they were awarded the Palme d'Or for the film "Blue Is The Warmest Color," a lesbian love story, during the closing ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or is the festival's top prize. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)
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Daredevil motorcycle riders thrill the public during the Red Bull X Fighters Jams show in Baku, Azerbaijan. (RFE/RL)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, take a drink by the beach during their holiday on the Spanish island of Ibiza. (AFP/Stefan Rousseau)
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An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with U.S. astronaut Karen Nyber, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is due to travel to the International Space Station on May 29. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Youths wave French flags in clashes with riot police during a protest march in Paris called "La Manif pour Tous" (Demonstration for All) against France's legalization of same-sex marriage. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)
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Lights shine on the tops of crosses at a memorial outside the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died in the powerful May 20 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
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Afghanistan has begun registering new voters for the 2014 presidential and provincial council elections due on April 5, 2014. (RFE/RL)
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Wu Yuanhong, a 42-year-old mentally disabled man, sits in his cage as his mother, Wang Muxiang, serves him lunch at their home in China's Jiangxi Province. According to Chinese media reports, Yuanhong has been locked in the cage by his parents for the past 11 years after he allegedly beat a 13-year-old child to death. Wang gives her son three meals a day, placing a cloth over the cage and providing a pan when he needs the toilet. (AFP)