Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 26th week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (36 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #26
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American daredevil Nik Wallenda walks without a harness or any other safety precautions on a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon in the U.S. state of Arizona. (AFP/Joe Klamar)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941 at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin walls in Moscow. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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A participant warms up backstage before the start of the "Mr. Srinagar" bodybuilding competition in Srinagar, India. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
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Sunni Muslim gunmen roam the streets and block roads with burning tires, expressing their solidarity with Salafist leader Ahmad al-Assir, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. (Reuters/Omar Ibrahim)
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Fireworks light up the sky over St. Petersburg. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
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A full moon rises over the Israeli-occupied West Bank. This "super Moon" -- also known as the "perigee" full moon -- appears about 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a regular full moon. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
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An Afghan boy somersaults into a river on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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Thirteen people died and 32 others were injured when a Romanian bus carrying some 46 passengers crashed through a guardrail and plunged into a gorge in Montenegro. (Reuters/Stevo Vasiljevic)
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Croatian President Ivo Josipovic (second from right); his wife, Tatiana; Zagreb's Mayor Milan Bandic (left); and Mini-Europe director Thierry Meeus (right) pose next to a miniature of St. Mark's Church in Zagreb after its inauguration at Mini-Europe in Brussels. Croatia is set to become the EU's 28th member in July.