Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 34th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #34
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Rohingya refugee children ride on a swing ride in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
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The moon sets over the Qolsarif Mosque in Kazan. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)
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Ukrainian soldiers wait for the start of a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv. (AP/Felipe Dana)
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Soldiers stand in front of a depiction of Catherine the Great during the opening of a gallery of busts of Russian figures in St. Petersburg on August 24. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)
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A surfer rides a wave on Khalaktyrsky beach on Russia's Pacific coast. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)
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Iran's players celebrate after winning the women's kabaddi final against India at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 24. Kabaddi is a sport that combine aspects of tag and tackle with wrestling moves. It has long been dominated by India. (EPA-EFE/Raminder Pal Singh)
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A child plays on a gun at an exhibition of modern weapons and military equipment in Kyiv to coincide with Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24. (RFE/RL/Andriy Dubchak)
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Ukrainian servicewomen attend a rehearsal on August 22 for the a Ukrainian Independence Day military parade in central Kyiv on August 24.
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Kazakhstan's Askarbay Yedibayev performs his taijijian wushu routine at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 22. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
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Pilots Pete McLeod of Canada (right) and Kirby Chambliss of the United States fly over the city of Kazan in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan. (epa-EFE/Joerg Mitter)
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High waves batter the coast of South Korea's Jeju Island as the powerful Typhoon Soulik gradually approaches the Korean Peninsula on August 22. (epa-EFE/Yonhap)
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An Albanian woman harvests oat in the village of Turaj. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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A trainer dives as elephants from a local circus take a regular bath in the waters of the Black Sea on a hot summer day in Yevpatoria on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)
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An aerial shot of some of the buses used by Muslim hajj pilgrims to get to Mina, near Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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A heckler holds up a mirror to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis as he delivers a speech to honor the victims of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 at a ceremony in Prague on August 21. (AP/Petr David Josek)
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A military nurse in Kyiv sprays Ukrainian servicemen with water to cool them down from the heat during a rehearsal ahead of Independence Day celebrations on August 24. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A boy cools off under a waterfall on the outskirts of Kathmandu in Nepal. (Reuters/Jose Luiz Gonzalez)
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Hajj pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
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A cowboy drives a herd of cattle in Mexico's Juarez Valley. (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
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Judges watch competitors approaching a target during the FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship near Gross-Siegharts, Austria, on August 20. (Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader)
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North and South Korean family members meet during a reunion at North Korea's Mount Kumgang resort, near the demilitarized zone, on August 20. (Reuters)
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People look at a display during an international fireworks festival in Moscow's Brateyevsky Park. (epa-EFA/Yuri Kochetkov)