Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 18th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #18
- By RFE/RL
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People offer Friday Prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A woman walks along a decorated street in Moscow. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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An internally displaced Afghan girl poses for a photograph at a temporary shelter in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Mikhail Polyachkov, a World War II veteran, is seen during a private parade arranged for him as part of the Supporting Veterans initiative to mark Victory Day on May 8. (TASS/Peter Kovalev)
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Children in Pakistan play in water to beat the heat during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a lockdown in Sindh Province due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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A woman walks by a depiction of medical staff wearing protective equipment, executed in the style of Orthodox icons, in Bucharest. The artwork was created by designer Wanda Hutira and is part of a campaign called Thank You Doctors, meant to raise awareness of the work of medical staff fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Following public pressure by Romania's influential Orthodox Church, the artworks, described as "blasphemous," will be removed from all locations in the Romanian capital, according to the agency behind the project. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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A Russian marathon runner trains on the stairs of his high-rise apartment building during the coronavirus lockdown in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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Empty chairs arranged to display "SOS" are placed in Neumarkt Square in Dresden to call attention to the difficult situation of hotel and restaurant owners in Germany due to the coronavirus. (Reuters/Matthias Rietschel)
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Belarusian servicemen wearing protective gear spray disinfectant on each other after sanitizing a hospital in the town of Zaslauye outside Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Czech protestors hold placards during a demonstration against the response of the government to the coronavirus pandemic in Prague. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
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A man bathes his horse as people cool off in the Arabian Sea on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Birds fly in front of a wall of flames coming from a burning warehouse on the southern outskirts of Moscow, Russia, on April 28. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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A woman walks by a depiction of medical staff wearing protective equipment, executed in the style of an Orthodox icon in Bucharest, Romania, on April 29.
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A homeless Russian man has a meal at at a center in Moscow on April 27. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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A couple take a walk with a dog at sunset during the coronavirus lockdown in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Serrgei Ilnitsky)
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An Afghan shoeshiner covers himself with a plastic sheet in the rain as he waits for customers during quarantine in Kabul on April 28. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A Pakistani Muslim boy reads verses from the Koran at a mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Karachi on April 27. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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Demonstrators in Brest protest on April 26 against the opening of a battery-manufacturing plant in the Belarusian city. (RFE/RL/Uladz Hrydzin)
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel is seen on a TV screen as he speaks about the COVID-19 outbreak in Havana. (AFP/Yamil Lage)
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A Ukrainian man wearing a face mask and holding a bunch of red flowers touches one of the busts of a monument honoring those who died in cleanup efforts after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in Kyiv on the 34th anniversary of the tragedy on April 26. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
