Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 23rd week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (42 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #23
26
A farmer holds a handful of soil to show the dryness of the land due to drought in a farm formerly irrigated by the Nile River in Al-Dakahlya, Egypt, about 120 kilometers from Cairo. Ethiopia has not thought hard enough about the impact of its ambitious dam project along the Nile, Egypt says, underlining how countries downstream are concerned about its impact on water supplies. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
27
Queen Elizabeth leaves Westminster Abbey after celebrating the 60th anniversary of her coronation in London on June 4. (Reuters/Andrew Winning)
28
Part of an installation called "Campo de Color" by Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone is pictured during the 55th La Biennale of Venice. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)
29
An Indian man searches for coins in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on the eve of World Environment Day. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
30
Rustam Makhmudov, who is suspected of gunning down the renowned journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, stands in a glass cage in a Moscow court. A Russian court has resumed the trial of five men accused of murdering Politkovskaya in 2006, after a long-running investigation that has failed to identify the mastermind behind the crime. (AFP/Evgeny Feldman)
31
Supporters and area residents offer funeral prayers for provincial lawmaker Farid Khan, who was killed in an attack by gunmen, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. (AFP/Basit Shah)
32
A member of the Free Syrian Army shoots back at a sniper during clashes with pro-government forces in Aleppo. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)
33
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate and lead nuclear negotiator Said Jalili show their palms, which read, "The key to progress is resistance," during a campaign rally at Tehran University. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
34
Children read the Koran at a mosque on the outskirt of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
35
A farmer walks through a field in Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
36
A statue of world harmony leader Sri Chinmoy is partially submerged in the rising waters of the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David W Cerny)
37
People look out the upstairs windows of a flooded house in the center of the Bavarian town of Passau, Germany. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle)
38
Antigovernment protesters clash with riot police near the Turkish prime minister's office in Istanbul. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
39
A judge checks a bull's horns to ensure they have not been sharpened before a traditional bullfight in the village of Preocica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
40
A woman smokes a cigarette while holding a cut-out of a cannabis leaf during a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia in support of easing penalties for marijuana possession. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
41
Two men pile sandbags in Dresden, Germany against imminent flooding from the Elbe River. (AFP/Arno Burgi)
42
A demonstrator waves the Turkish national flag as he sits on a monument during a protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party in central Ankara. (Reuters/Umit Bektas)