Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the third week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos of The Week #3
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Two horses stand close together for warmth during a snowstorm in Anspach, near Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at an exhibit dedicated to the breaking of the Nazi siege of Leningrad in World War II at a war museum in Kirovsk. (Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters)
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Serbian Orthodox believers swim in the cold water of the Danube River during celebrations of the Epiphany in Belgrade. People believe that swimming in blessed waters during the holiday of Epiphany strengthens their spirit and body. (epaA-EFE/Andrej Cukic)
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Students rally against the government in Budapest. (Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
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A boy takes a dip in the freezing waters of Lake Buzim during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations with the air temperature at about minus 40 degrees Celsius, near the village of Sukhobuzimskoye, north of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Russian ice skater Maria Sotskova competes in the Ladies Short Program at the European Championships in Moscow. (Reuters/Grigory Dukor)
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A priest leads a service in a residential house on the eve of Orthodox Epiphany in the village of Lesiny, Belarus, on January 18. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A Russian police officer walks in the yard of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery in downtown Moscow on January 18. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen in the sky near the village of Beit Kama in southern Israel. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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A pigeon keeper watches his birds fly from the roof of his home in the war-damaged Bab Dreib neighborhood in the Old City of Homs, Syria. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
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A woman walks by a snow covered picture displayed in an outdoor exhibition featuring photos of Ukrainian historical figures in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A swimmer competes in the IWSA World Cup of winter swimming in Minsk. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)
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Afghan men play with a dog in the early morning in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Indian Army soldiers cross a rope bridge amid smoke from canisters as they showcase their skills during a training session in Bangalore. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)
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Wild ducks swim in the icy waters of the Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Riot policemen block access face off against Ukrainian oppositionists near the parliament building in Kyiv on January 16. (Reuters/Andriy Kravchenko)
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A local man wearing a bear costume made of hay and reeds takes part in celebrations marking the 'Malanka' winter holiday in the village of Krasnoilsk in western Ukraine. (epa-EFE/Oleg Petrasyuk)
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People wearing disguises take part in the annual carnival in the village of Vevcani in southwestern Macedonia. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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A woman walks past a wall pock-marked with bullet holes opposite the Nariman House cultural and religious center of the ultraorthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Mumbai, India, on January 15. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
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A man sells traditional grilled food at a shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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A Turkish Pegasus Airlines 737-800 that skipped off the runway in Trabzon lies stricken on the edge of a cliff on January 135. Miraculously, none of the 162 people on board was seriously injured and the plane was safely removed on January 18. (AP)