Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 14th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #14
- By RFE/RL
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Street artists perform at sunrise on a deserted Charles Bridge in the Czech capital, Prague. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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A stray dog stands on a snow-covered deserted square in Pristina, Kosovo, on April 1. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Gravediggers in a Sao Paulo cemetery open new graves amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths in Brazil. (Reuters/Amanda Perobelli)
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Migrant workers wearing protective face masks queue outside a migration control center to prolong their stay in Russia amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in St. Petersburg. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)
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A statue of Soviet World War II commander Ivan Konev is loaded onto a truck after being removed from its platform in a Prague district on April 3. Konev is regarded as a hero in Russia for retaking much of Eastern Europe from Nazi German forces during World War II. But many Czechs view him an enforcer of Soviet rule after the war. A local assembly voted in 2019 to remove the statue. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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A worker walks past motivational placards designed in the style of Soviet propaganda posters at the construction site of a new COVID-19 hospital outside Moscow on April 1. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)
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A homeless man wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus waits to receive basic medical help from members of a group of volunteer doctors in Moscow on April 1. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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Afghan farmers look on as authorities destroy poppy fields in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province on April 1. (epa-EFE/Watan Yar)
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A woman wears a protective mask as she waits for public transport at a bus stop during a heavy snowfall in Skopje on April 1. (AFP/Robert Atanovski)
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Chinese firefighters work on extinguishing a forest fire that started near Xichang in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province on March 31. (China Daily via Reuters)
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Moscow police officers walk across an empty Red Square. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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A specialist worker wearing protective gear sanitizes public facilities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during sunset in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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People walk past Tehran's Azadi Tower, which has been lit up with messages of hope in solidarity with all the countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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A police officer smokes on an empty street while patrolling central Kyiv on March 31. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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A parking lot full of rental cars in Podolsk, Russia. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Seven-year-old Uzbillah stands with face masks on a stick selling them with his brother at the corner of a street during a lockdown in Karachi on March 31. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a warning sign made of balloons outside a closed cafe, after Moscow authorities announced a partial lockdown and ordering residents to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus on March 30. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)
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Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant on a street in a residential area of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, during a government-imposed coronavirus lockdown. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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A man sleeps on a bench in deserted downtown Moscow on March 30. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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A person wearing a protective mask against the coronavirus is reflected in the side mirror of a car near a Kazakh police officer in Almaty on March 30. (Reuters/Mariya Gordeyeva)
