Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the seventh week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #7
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A Nepalese girl looks toward her father as she writes on the wall of a Saraswati temple during the Shreepanchami festival in Kathmandu on February 11. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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Women and children fleeing from the last Islamic State pocket in Syria sit in the back of a truck near Baghuz, eastern Syria, on February 11. (AFP/Fadel Senna)
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Horse racing during the Grand Prix Credit Suisse on the frozen lake in St. Moritz, Switzerland. (epa-EFE/Peter Klaunzer)
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An Iranian woman takes selfies during a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran on February 11. (Tasnim via Reuters/Vahid Ahmadi)
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence with his wife, Karen, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda with first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda lay flowers on a train wagon as they visit the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, near Oswiecim, Poland. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
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Veterans and other participants gather before a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan at Victory Park, also known as Poklonnaya Gora War Memorial Park, in Moscow on February 15. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka play ice hockey in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. (Reuters/Sergei Chirikov)
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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama reacts as ink is thrown at him by members of the opposition during a parliamentary session in Tirana. (Reuters/Stringer)
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A man works at fabric-dying workshop in Lahore, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Rahat Dar)
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A man bikes during a winter storm in Ottawa, Canada. (Reuters/Chris Wattie)
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A couple poses for a wedding photo amid snowfall at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing. (China Daily via Reuters)
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Employees of the State Russian Museum take down a massive painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin ahead of sending it to an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery in St. Petersburg. (TASS/Peter Kovalev)
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A passenger train moves along the bank of the Yenisei River in the Siberian forest covered with snow and hoarfrost outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A waitress cleans tables in the buffet at the Vodka Museum in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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Pakistani authorities smash confiscated bottles of alcohol and burn drugs in Karachi. (AP/Muhammad Rizwan)
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Believers attend a ceremony marking the day of St. Haralampi, protector of beekeepers, around a cross-shaped platform covered with candles placed in jars of honey, at the Church of the Blessed Virgin in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, on February 10. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Villagers from the Chinese village of Jiexi Jiantan perform the ritual of "zha laoye," or "cracking local spirits," in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, on February 10. (epa-EFE/ZNSEN China Out)
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An elderly woman holds a copy of the Russian Constitution as she takes part in the March of Maternal Anger in Moscow on February 10. (TASS/Sergei Fadeichev)