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Photos Of The Week #20
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Crimean Tatars gather in Simferopol on May 18 to remember those who died in their wartime deportation from the peninsula. (RFE/RL /Oleg Kamushkin)
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Crimean Tatars and local residents light candles during a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Tatars from Crimea in Kyiv on May 17. (Reuters/Konstantin Grishin)
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The village of Zarat, in Azerbaijan's Shamakhi district (RFE/RL /Abbas Atilay)
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Members of the LGBT community carry a rainbow-colored flag as they attend a march for human rights and equality in Chisinau, Moldova, on May 17. (epa/Dumitru Doru)
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Serbian soldiers evacuate people in a boat in the flooded town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, on May 17. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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Residents of the flooded Bosnian village of Topcic Polje are evacuated from their homes by backhoe on May 16. (Reuters/Davo Rucic)
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Children look at chocolate in the form of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Lviv Chocolate Studio in western Ukraine. (Reuters/Roman Baluk)
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Sailors take part in the first stage of the Varna-Novorossiysk Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta in Bulgaria. (ITAR-TASS)
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A landslide and floodwaters around houses in the village of Topcic Polje, near the central town of Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 15. Severe flooding in Serbia and Bosnia has forced schools to close and hundreds of people to evacuate their homes and left thousands more without power. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
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U.S. Army soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, jump with parachutes during a military drill near the town of Gjakova. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Supporters of the Dynamo Kyiv soccer club shout slogans and light flares to protest against the proposed new location for the forthcoming Ukranian Cup final during a rally in central Kyiv on May 14. (Reuters)
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Afghan laborers work at a brick factory as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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As police officers detain him, a protester is kicked by Yusuf Yerkel (left), advisor to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, during a protest against Erdogan's visit to Soma, a district in western province of Manisa, where hundreds of miners died in an explosion this week. (Reuters/Mehmet Emin)
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A man kisses his son, who survived an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa, Turkey, which killed hundreds of people on May 13. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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A man holds a cross and a telephone as he stands near a barricade erected by pro-Russian activists during a rally to mark and celebrate the announcement of the results of the referendum on the status of Donetsk region in Donetsk on May 12. (Reuters/Maksim Zmeyev)
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Pro-Russia militia men destroy gambling machines in one of the gaming clubs in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev)
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A Turkmen man performs on a horse during the opening ceremony of 2014 International Akhal-Teke Horses Association Special Conference and China Horse Culture Festival at the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 12. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
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Internally displaced Afghan children look on from a tent on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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An Afghan policeman points to shrapnel at the site of a suicide attack in in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, which killed at least seven people on May 12. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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An armed pro-Russian militant stands at a checkpoint near Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 12. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
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Men work at a makeshift oil refinery site in the Kurdish town of Al-Qahtaniya in Syria. (Reuters/Rodi Said)
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A woman holds a Russian national flag during a rally to support the self-rule "referendums" for the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in central Simferopol, Crimea, on May 11. (AFP/Max Vetrov)