Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 18th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #18
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Russian police officers detain a protester during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally called by opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on May 5 in St. Petersburg, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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Russian policemen detain an opposition supporter during a protest in Moscow on May 5, ahead of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration ceremony. (Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva)
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Ukrainian schoolgirls take part in a ceremony on May 4 dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two at the compound of the WWII museum in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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A woman visits the Cascade giant stairway in Yerevan, Armenia. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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A participant sprays water on an honor guard to cool him off before the ceremony at a World War II memorial in Stavropol, Russia. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)
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A black kite flies past a cat to catch a piece of meat, left by people who believe feeding birds and other animals brings good luck, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A girl climbs on a sculptural composition at the World War II open-air museum in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A Pakistani boy jumps into water to cool off during hot and humid weather at a port area in Karachi on May 3. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a large bonfire in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on May 2. (epa-EFE/Abir Sultan)
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An elderly sexton cleans candles in the church of an Orthodox monastery near the town of Istra, some 70 kilometers outside of Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A young South Korean boy touches his newly shaved head during a Buddhist service at the Jogye Temple in Seoul. (AP/Lee Jin-man)
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Supporters of Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinian wait for the results of a parliamentary vote to select an interim prime minister in central Yerevan on May 1. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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A protester holds a flare during a May Day union march in Paris, France, on May 1. (Reuters/Christian Hartmann)
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A man passes an obstacle as he takes part in an extreme race competition near the Belarusian town of Lahoysk, some 40 kilometers north of Minsk. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)
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A couple dressed in historical military uniforms dances during May Day celebrations in central Moscow on May 1. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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Bottles containing rice, money, and USB sticks are thrown into the sea by North Korean defector activists on Ganghwa island, west of Seoul, on May 1. The defectors have been throwing hundreds of bottles filled with food, cash, medicine, and memory sticks into the sea twice a month for more than two years. South Korean coast guards have told them the bottles are often retrieved by North Korean fishing boats. (AFP/Ed Jones)
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A worker dismantles loudspeakers that were set up for propaganda broadcasts near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea. (Reuters/Kim Hong-ji)
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A man dressed as a character from the computer game World Of Warcraft stands on a field near the town of Kamyk nad Vltavou, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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Indian children search under a railway bridge for coins offered by Hindu devotees in passing trains on the Yamuna River in Allahabad. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)
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Antigovernment protesters hold Armenian national flags as they drive by Republic Square in Yerevan. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Afghan security officers react after a deadly twin bomb attack in Kabul that killed at least 25 people on April 30. (epa-EFE/Christian Bruna)
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Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan in action against Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus at the Table Tennis Team World Championships in Halmstad, Sweden, on April 30. (epa-EFE/Christian Bruna)