Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive.
Photos Of The Week #13
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Pro-Russian activists hold a large Russian flag bearing a portrait of late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they take part in a rally in Odesa, Ukraine. (AFP/Aleksei Kravtsov)
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A man walks past an election-themed mural in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AFP/Banaras Khan)
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The remains of decommissioned submarines float at a nuclear waste disposal plant in the town of Fokino in Russia's far-eastern Primorsky region on March 28. (Reuters/Yuri Maltsev)
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A supporter of presidential candidate Zalmai Rasul carries chairs as he prepares for an election rally in Panshir, northern Afghanistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
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An Afghan man feeds pigeons in the yard of the shrine of Imam Ali, son in-law of Prophet Muhammad, in the city of Mazar-e Sharif. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)
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Activists from the Right Sector movement and their supporters gather outside Ukraine's parliament building to demand the immediate resignation of the interior minister in Kyiv on March 27. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Afghan artists perform the traditional "attan" dance during international Norouz celebrations in Kabul on March 27. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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An elderly woman passes by a branch of Sberbank in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Aleksandr Demianchuk)
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An anti-Russian activist (right) takes away a Russian flag from a pro-Russian activist during a rally in Tbilisi on March 27. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
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Maria Lats, 21, holds her four month-old daughter, Valeria, at a temporary shelter in the port town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on March 26. Maria, her daughter and her husband, a Ukrainian Coast Guard officer, left the Crimean town of Kerch on March 23. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
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People fish on a pier at the port of Mariupol, located on the north of the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
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An Afghan girl smiles as she walks away after visiting the Sakhi shrine in Kabul. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
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Ultraorthodox Jews knead dough in a Matzah Bakery in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. (epa/Abir Sultan)
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People lie down in a pedestrian zone of Frankfurt on March 24 as part of an art project in remembrance of the 528 victims of the Katzbach Nazi concentration camp. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)
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Belarusian opposition activists hold their white-red-white and Ukrainian flags during a solidarity action in Minsk to show support with Ukraine. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Relatives carry coffins in Pristina with the remains of 46 ethnic Albanians killed by Serbian security forces during the 1998-99 war. (epa/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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A motorist checks his car next to a Ukrainian tank position close to the border with Russia, near the city of Kharkiv. (Reuters/Dmitry Neymyrok)
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A family member of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cries on a bus before heading to the Malaysian Embassy, outside Lido Hotel in Beijing. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon)
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Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdul Rasul Sayyaf listen to his speech during an election campaign in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
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Women and a boy with a toy assault rifle walk past an unfinished wall painting in Moscow depicting a map of the Crimean peninsula and a slogan reading, "Together Forever." (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
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An Afghan shepherd guides his sheep on a rainy day in Jalalabad Province. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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A Ukrainian soldier stands guard outside a Ukrainian Army military camp set up on a field close to the Russian border in east Ukraine. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
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A woman holds a candle at the St. Marko Church in Belgrade during a memorial service for the victims of the 1999 NATO air campaign against Serbia and Montenegro. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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An Israeli border officer stands on a pile of rubble from a damaged section of Israel's controversial barrier at the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)