Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 26th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #26
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A municipal worker sits on a bench next to a statue in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, during the 2018 soccer World Cup. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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The Mount Agung volcano spews hot volcanic ash into the air as seen from a village in Bali, Indonesia. (epa-EFE/Made Nagi)
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Actors perform during a ceremony to unveil a monument to the victims of World War II on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp in Trostenets outside Minsk, Belarus, on June 29. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Gary Hunt of Britain performs during a training session for the Red Bull Cliff Diving competition at the Gugghenheim Museum in Bilbao, northern Spain. (epa-EFE/Luis Tejido)
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Smoke rises above opposition-held areas in the city of Daraa during air strikes by Syrian regime forces on June 28. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)
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Immigration activists wrapped in silver blankets, symbolizing immigrant children that were seen using similar blankets at a U.S.-Mexico border detention facility in Texas, protest inside the Hart Senate Office Building after marching to Capitol Hill in Washington on June 28. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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A girls runs at the Kremlin historic citadel of Tatarstan in Kazan, Russia. (Reuters/Pilar Olivares)
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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny (right) greets his brother Oleg Navalny (left) after he was released after spending 3 1/2 years in prison in the western Oryol region on June 29. In 2014, the two brothers were convicted of stealing about $500,000 from two Russian firms and of laundering some of the money. Both were sentenced to 3 1/2 years, but Aleksei's sentence was suspended. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the brothers were convicted unfairly. (TASS)
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A Serb with a child wears a face mask depicting Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic as he participates in a ceremony commemorating a medieval battle with invading Ottoman forces in 1389 at Gazimestan, Kosovo. Hundreds of Serbs gathered to mark the 629th anniversary of the battle in which a Serbian army was defeated by the Ottoman Empire. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
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People take pictures in a lavender field outside Chisinau, Moldova. (EPA-EFE/Dumitru Doru)
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A poster of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is seen outside a Karachi workshop ahead of general elections in Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A boy plays in a fountain on a hot day in Volgograd, Russia. (Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)
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A burqa-clad woman carries a large box on her head along a road in Herat, Afghanistan. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Afghan girls carry a gas canister on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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Retired Argentinian player Diego Maradona makes an obscene gesture to rival fans during his country's World Cup group match against Nigeria in St. Petersburg on June 26. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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A man crosses a flooded street after a storm at sunset in Kazan on June 26. (AFP/Benjamin Cremel)
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Afghan boys play soccer on a field in Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Burmese law enforcement authorities burn impounded illegal drugs on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking during a ceremony in Yangon on June 26. (AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
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Muslim tourists pose in front of a poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which reads, "Thank you, Istanbul," on Taksim Square on June 26. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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Rohingya refugee children play with jump ropes outside their tents at a refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. (AP/Wong Maye-E)
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Iran's Majid Hosseini (left) competes for the ball with Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo in their countries' World Cup group game in Saransk, Russia, on June 25. (Reuters/Ivan Alvarado)
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A mother holds her daughter in a Moldovan lavender field some 40 kilometers east of Chisinau. (epa-EFE/Dumitru Doru)
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A protester in the Greek city of Thessaloniki shouts slogans on June 24 during a demonstration against the agreement reached by Greece and Macedonia to resolve a dispute over the former Yugoslav republic's name. (Reuters/Alexandros Avramadis)
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People shout slogans and let off flares outside the ruling Justice and Development Party's headquarters in Istanbul after Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. (AFP/Gurcan Ozturk)
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Czech pilot Martin Sonka takes part in a Red Bull Air Race in Budapest, Hungary. (AP/Predrag Vuckovic)