Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 11th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #11
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Hot-air balloons are seen rising over Lake Burley-Griffin during the Canberra International Balloon Festival in Canberra, Australia. (epa-EFE/Lukas Coch)
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A drone photo shows a tractor preparing the ground for spring in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Gyorgy Varga)
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The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is transported to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 12. NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchinin arrived at the International Space Station on March 15. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch gestures from inside a bus during a farewell ceremony outside the cosmonaut hotel prior to the launch on board the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A child blows a whistle during the Global Climate Strike for the Future protest, in front the cabinet of ministers building in Kyiv on March 15. ( epa-EFE/Stepan Franko)
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A woman in Minsk, Belarus, looks at the sculpture of an elephant designed by Salvador Dali. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)
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A SU-34 military jet is seen in a yard amid apartment blocks in Moscow on March 15. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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A woman walks in Zaryadye Park in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Photographers take pictures as a Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft carrying a three-person crew to the International Space Station blasts off on March 14. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Cyclists take part in a demonstration in front of Kyiv City Hall calling for modern infrastructure for safe cycling traffic in the Ukrainian capital. (AP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Members of Macedonian special police forces take part in an emergency drill in Skopje. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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A migrant looks at himself in a mirror while having his hair cut in a factory hall that has been turned into a reception facility in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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People march down a street toward a memorial service marking the 16th anniversary of the assassination of the first democratic prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, in Belgrade on March 12. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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An Afghan street vendor selling oranges waits for customers on a rainy day on the roadside in Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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The sun is reflected in a building behind a sculpture of the first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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A homeless man sleeps on a monument dedicated to architect Wladyslaw Horodecki in the center of Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A reveler celebrates Ash Monday by participating in a colorful "flour war," a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until Orthodox Easter, in the port town of Galaxidi, Greece, on March 11. (Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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A youth spins a flaming tire as part of a tradition marking the upcoming first day of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar, in the Romanian village of Poplaca on March 10. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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A man attends a picket to protest against tightening state control over the Internet in St. Petersburg on March 10. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
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Athletes compete on the way from Maloya to S-Chanf during the 51st annual Engadin skiing marathon in Sils, Switzerland, on March 10. (epa-EFE/Ennio Leanza)
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An artist performs during Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) holiday celebrations in front of the Historical Museum in Manezh Square near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow on March 9. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlyanichenko)