Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 21st week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #21
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An acrobat entertains the crowd in Tbilisi during celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the first Georgian democratic state on May 26. (RFE/RL/Mzia Seganelidze)
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An officer with the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service has his face painted in the colors of both Champions League finalists, Liverpool and Real Madrid, as he prepares to meet soccer fans at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv on May 25.
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A Filipino villager boy plays as the sun sets on the resort island of Boracay on May 25. (epa-EFE/Jo Haresh Tanodra)
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Indian fishermen row their boat on the Bay of Bengal near Visakhapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on May 25. (AFP/Xavier Galiana)
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Members of the performing group Houle Douce practice their instruments on tightropes ahead of a show at the Tianmen Mountain National Park in Hunan Province, China. (Reuters)
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A burqa-clad Afghan woman sits in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or "Blue Mosque," in Mazar-e Sharif during the holy month of Ramadan. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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A man jumps in the Euphrates River during hot weather in Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters/Aboud Hamam)
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Egyptian dancers perform the Tanoura during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the El-Ghuri Culture Palace in Cairo. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
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People cool off around punctured water-supply lines amid a heatwave in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
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Afghan youths play on a swing at sunset on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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An internally displaced Afghan child looks out of a window in her temporary home at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Members of the rebel Syrian Democratic Forces, trained by a U.S.-led coalition, participate in a graduation ceremony for their first regiment in Al-Kasrah, in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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An internally displaced Afghan girl holds a mask as she walks outside a shelter at a refugee camp in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A group of schoolchildren visits a church in the Kremlin in the Russian city of Kazan. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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An Afghan boy reads from the Koran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A Muslim woman prays at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta. (AP/Tatan Syuflana)
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Women dressed in the traditional clothes of the Sorbs carry a statue of the Virgin Mary during a procession in front of the sun in Rosenthal, Germany, on May 21. (AP/Jens Meyer)
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Supporters cheer as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a preelection rally in Sarajevo on May 20. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)