Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 32nd week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive.
Photos Of The Week #32
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Zoo employee Yekaterina Mikhailova plays with Vesna, a 4-month-old female snow fox cub, in an enclosure at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Vesna is the first attempt by the zoo to domesticate a wild fox. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Brides and grooms participate in a mass wedding in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RL/Maria Kolesnikova)
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Josh Schonwald, a U.S.-based food writer, tastes the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, is the result of years of research by Dutch scientist Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht, who is working to show how meat grown in petri dishes might one day be a true alternative to meat from livestock. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
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The sun sets behind skyscrapers and a traffic jam on the Sadovoe (Garden) Ring in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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An inmate hides her face from the photographer at a provisional tent camp for illegal migrants detained during police raids on Moscow markets. (ITAR-TASS/Zurab Dzhavakhadze)
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An Ergenekon prisoner being driven in a police armored vehicle waves at protesters as police and gendarmerie block access to the courthouse in Silivri, near Istanbul, where prosecutors delivered final arguments in the case against 275 people accused of plotting to overturn Turkey's Islamic-leaning government. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A boy plays with a panda bear sculpture in front of Berlin's main train station, where the German branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature marked the 50th anniversary of its founding. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
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War veterans and commanding officers who took part in a military parade held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean truce clap and cheer in Pyongyang. (Reuters/KCNA)
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Macedonian officials attend celebrations marking the 110th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising, an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, at the Ilinden Memorial in Krusevo.
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Men walk amidst sandals, mostly from victims of a bomb blast, strewn at the roadside on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. An improvised bomb went off in a weekly bazaar outside Kandahar city, killing four civilians and wounding 22 others. (AFP/Jangir)
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An elderly woman prays for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima in front of the cenotaph at the Peace Memoral Park in Hiroshima. Hiroshima is marking the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing on August 6. (AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
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A sign featuring the defaced picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during Vancouver's 35th annual Pride Parade. (Reuters/Ben Nelms)
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A man climbs a tree trunk during the Rugova Traditional Games in southwestern Kosovo.