Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 11th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #11
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Native River is cooled off after winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup on March 16 in England. (Reuters/Darren Staples)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to vote at a polling station in Moscow on March 18 in a vote that is all but certain to hand him a fourth term in office. (AP/Yuri Kadobno)
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Children play near their house on a hilltop overlooking the Afghan capital, Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a youth forum in Moscow on March 15. (AFP/Alexey Druzhin)
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A man holds a dog at an opposition rally on the streets in Budapest, Hungary. (AP/Tibor Illyes)
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A child sleeps in a suitcase in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria. A war monitor said that almost 20,000 civilians fled the Syrian town of Hammuriyeh and its surrounding areas in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)
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Approximately 7,000 pairs of shoes representing children killed in the U.S. by guns since the December 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are seen in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in a protest organized by a global advocacy group. (epa-EFE/Michael Reynolds)
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A wounded Syrian man waits for treatment at a makeshift clinic during Syrian government air strikes on the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus. (AFP/Amer Almohibany)
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko picks up the hat of a military soldier as he and Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen review the honor guard during a welcoming ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on March 14. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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U.S. President Donald Trump tosses a hat into the crowd as he arrives to speak at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, on March 13. (Reuters/Kevin Lemarque)
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A damaged bathroom in a house near Deraa, Syria. (Reuters/Alaa al-Faqir)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators protest against Israeli Army conscription in the town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
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Children hold their bowls as they wait in line for a charity food handout in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/ Fayaz Aziz)
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A truck turns on an overpass beside the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Caren Firouz)
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A woman waits at a bus stop in front of a graffito depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a building in Sevastopol on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. (AFP)
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A newlywed Turkish couple pose for photos among the ruins of the ancient city of Perge, Antalya. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)
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An Afghan health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child during an inoculation campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)