Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the eighth week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #8
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A musher is pulled by a team of Siberian huskies during a practice session on the frozen Biryusa River in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Russia's Viacheslav Barkov soars through the air during the ski-jumping portion of the Nordic Combined at the Nordic Ski World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. (AP/Matthias Schrader)
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Catalan police officers remove demonstrators blocking a road leading to Barcelona city during a general strike in Catalonia, Spain. Strikers advocating for Catalonia's secession from Spain are blocking major highways, train lines, and roads across the northeastern region. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)
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Street vendors sell corn on Sultanahmet Square near the Blue Mosque on a foggy day in Istanbul. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)
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Actors dressed in horse costumes wait to entertain passersby in a lighted boulevard in Moscow. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)
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The scene of a fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
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Afghan horsemen compete during a game of the traditional sport of buzkashi in Badakhshan Province. The ancient game -- an Afghan national sport -- is played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw an animal carcass into a circle. (AFP/Sharif Shayeq)
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An employee checks a strip of film at a cinema in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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Rawan, an 11-year-old Syrian girl, poses on a destroyed tank with her stuffed bear near the village of Yazi Bagh, about 6 kilometers from the Bab al-Salamah border crossing between Syria and Turkey in the north of Aleppo Province. (AFP/Nazeer Al-Khatib)
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An Afghan chickpea vendor looks on as he waits for customers at his roadside stall near Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A Pakistani man walks with his horse alongside a river in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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An Indian rickshaw driver sleeps in his cart in New Delhi, India. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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A young girl runs at the Malkohi refugee camp in Jimeta, Nigeria. (AFP/Luis Tato)
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A folk artist makes a shower of sparks with molten iron during a local celebration ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival, in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Masked revelers attend a traditional carnival in Roztoky, near Prague. Carnivals across the Czech Republic marked the departure of winter, the forthcoming spring, and the beginning of Lent. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A mother stands on a windy hillside overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, as she waits for her child's school bus. (epa-EFE/Narendra Shrestha)
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A man dives into a partly frozen lake in Shenyang, in China's northeastern Liaoning Province. (AFP/Stringer)
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Servicemen from the Belarusian Interior Ministry's special forces take part in an event at their base in Minsk. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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An ethnic Tibetan man holding a child looks at a huge sacred painting on cloth depicting Buddha during a prayer festival at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu Province. (epa-EFE/Roman Pilipey)
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Veiled women, reportedly members of Islamic State and wives of the extremists, walk under the supervision of a female fighter from Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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Afghan men ride horses on snow-covered ground on the outskirts of Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)