Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 45th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #45
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A man rides in a horse-drawn carriage on a foggy autumn day near the village of Krutilavichy, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A participant is seen through a Soviet-era truck's window, which reflects a Kremlin tower, during preparations for a historical military parade in Moscow on November 7. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
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Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah on the Syrian border with Turkey on November 8. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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A Pakistani demonstrator rests under a makeshift plastic tent to avoid cold weather during the so-called Freedom March, a rally organized by Islamist politicians to protest against Prime Minister Imran Khan's government in Islamabad. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A Ukrainian soldier patrols by a destroyed coal mine of Butovka at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far from the town of Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region. (AFP/Anatoliy Stepanov)
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An internally displaced Afghan girl looks on as she holds a doll inside her temporary home at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen (left) and William Taylor, the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine, look at a map inside a car in the town of Zolote in the Luhansk region on November 7. (epa-EFE/Sergei Kozlov)
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A zookeeper carries a pelican to to its winter enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David Cerny)
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Anti-government protesters set a fire while security forces fire live ammunition and tear gas at a demonstration near state TV in Baghdad. (AP/Hadi Mizban)
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Afghan women harvest saffron flowers, a lucrative alternative to opium poppies, in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Pedestrians cast shadows during a sunny autumn day in the center of Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple as part of the religious festival of Rakher Upabash in Narayangonj, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
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An Iraqi protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashes victory signs during a protest and strike in a central Baghdad square. (epa-EFE/Murtaja Lateef)
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In Islamabad, Pakistan, a supporter of the religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam plays the traditional game of "topai" (cap) during an opposition march to protest the government. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Pigeons flying outside the Karti Sakhi shrine at sunset in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A car falls down in a hole caused by burst heating pipe in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on November 5. (AP/Sergey Ristenko)
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A pedestrian walks past a mural painted on the wall of a house in the town of Ferizaj, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Hindu women worship the sun god in the polluted waters of the River Yamuna during the religious festival of Chatth Puja in New Delhi. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)