Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the sixth week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #6
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The night sky as photographed near Hajnacka, southern Slovakia. The faint zodiacal light is caused by interplanetary dust reflecting sunlight. (AP/Peter Komka/MTI)
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A portrait of Iran's President Hassan Rohani lays on a street as thousands of Iranian opponents in exile staged a protest in Paris against the Tehran regime, before the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
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Members of the Dolphin winter swimming club warm up on an embankment of the Yenisei River ahead of their weekly bathing session, with the air temperature at about minus 28 degrees Celsius, in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Olesya Ushakova throws hot water into the air in freezing weather near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A scene from the 2019 Al-Ula Balloon Festival in Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hussain Daghiri)
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A disabled man wearing a military uniform begs for alms in front of the Mykhaylo Gold Dom Cathedral frescoes in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Artists perform with molten metal near the Badaling Great Wall, in the Yanqing district of Beijing, China. (epa-EFE/Roman Pilipey)
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A woman takes photos of the sea in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus.
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Taliban officials get into an elevator as they attend "intra-Afghan" peace talks in Moscow on February 6. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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A man looks at images of the "Heavenly Hundred" Memorial commemorating people who died during Ukraine's Maidan protests of 2013-2014, after a heavy snowfall in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Turkish woman Arzu Tekgoz is rescued at the site of a building that collapsed in Istanbul's Kartal district on February 6. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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A picture shows a tree covered with snow after a heavy snowfall in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on February 6. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A municipal worker clears ice from the steps of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Performers are silhouetted as they stand during a Qing Dynasty ceremony, in which emperors prayed for a good harvest and fortune, at a temple fair in Beijing's Ditan Park on February 5. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Two women look at the shredded Banksy painting Love Is In The Bin at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany. (dpa/Uli Deck)
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A caretaker plays with a pair of pet lions in an enclosure built in a house on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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People buying fruit are seen through the window of a parked car at a market in Srinagar, India, on February 5. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
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Ukrainian servicemen play the piano in а destroyed house near their position on the front line in the Donetsk region. (Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko)
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Villagers cross a makeshift bridge in a suburb of Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Aircraft fly over the presidential palace during a reception for Pope Francis in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, on February 4. (AFP/Giuseppe Cacace)
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An Indian Naga Sadhus, or naked holy man, participates in a procession during the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad. (epa-EFE/Rajat Gupta)
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American football player Brandon King of the New England Patriots sits in confetti on the playing field after his team won the Super Bowl against the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 3. (AFP/Angela Weiss)
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Metropolitan Epifaniy (center), head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, takes part in an enthronement ceremony at Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv on February 3. (Reuters)