Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the fifth week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #5
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Artists perform during the presentation of a new show titled Water Extravaganza. Fairies Park in Minsk on January 31. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A cyclist passes by a street installation during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia, on January 31. (Reuters/Eduard Komiyenko)
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A picture taken on January 30 shows Brussels' landmark Manneken-Pis statue decorated with a Union Jack waistcoat and a top hat to mark the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump waves to onlookers as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House to depart for Michigan by the Marine One helicopter on January 30. (epa-EFE/Michael Reynolds)
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Amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak, Taiwanese commuters wear face masks as they ride motorbikes in Taipei. (epa-EFE/David Chang)
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A steel worker stands amid sparks of raw iron coming from a blast furnace at a ThyssenKrupp factory in Duisburg, Germany. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)
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A Palestinian demonstrator looks on as tires burn during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank on January 30. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)
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With the Parthenon temple in the background, visitors take pictures at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. (Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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White pelicans congregate on the shore of the Chapala lagoon in Cojumatlan, Mexico. (AFP/Ulises Ruiz)
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A woman with an owl, which poses for pictures with tourists, uses her cell phone as she waits for custom in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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People wearing face masks walk down a deserted street in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is at the center of the coronavirus outbreak. (AP/Arek Rataj)
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An Afghan man rides a bicycle up a a hill during sunset in Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Naftoon)
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Veterans attend an event marking the Red Army's liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, at Moscow's Victory Museum on January 28. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Locals inspect the wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crashed in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, on January 27. (AP/Saifullah Maftoon)
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Afghan children play with balloons on a street in Kandahar Province. (AFP/Javed Tanveer)
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An Orthodox priest walks after paying respects at the Holocaust memorial in Bucharest, Romania, on January 27. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
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Viktoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia perform during the exhibition skating program of the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Graz, Austria, on January 26. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)
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Children take part in a memorial ceremony for Holocaust victims at a Jewish community center in Yekaterinburg, Russia. (TASS/Donat Sorokin)
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An Iranian passenger plane sits on a highway close to the airport in the southwestern Iranian city of Mahshahr after skidding off the runway. (epa-EFE/Mohammad Zarei)