Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 19th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #19
- By RFE/RL
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Women wearing protective face masks visit the World War II museum on Victory Day, the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, in Kyiv on May 9. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
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Police officers pepper spray protesters during a demonstration against coronavirus lockdown measures at Alexanderplatz in Berlin on May 9. (Reuters/Christian Mang)
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In Minsk, Belarus, soldiers dressed in period uniforms march during the Victory Day military parade that marked the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
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A migrant worker, who was stranded in the western Indian state of Gujarat due to a coronavirus lockdown, looks out from a train that will take him to his home state of eastern Bihar. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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An Afghan man wearing clothes spattered in blood lays down on a road as protesters shout slogans against the Iranian regime during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Jawad Jalali)
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A man rides his bicycle in the early morning hours during the coronvirus lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal. (epa-EFE/Narendra Shrestha)
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Ihor Ponomarchuk, a Ukrainian serviceman injured in the military conflict in the country's eastern regions, and his bride, Anna Diolomina, arrive for a wedding ceremony at the Main Military Clinical Hospital amid the coronavirus outbreak in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Cobblestones with Jewish tombstone fragments on display at a construction site in Wenceslas Square in Prague. Hundreds of cobblestones created from cut Jewish tombstones were found in recent days during the reconstruction of the square. According to the Jewish community in Prague, during the manual dismantling of the original paving, dozens of stones with remnants of texts and hundreds of stones made of polished marble were found. These findings confirm that during the communist regime, Jewish gravestones often served as building material. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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Models wearing protective face masks and wedding dresses walk on the Charles Bridge as they take part in a commercial shoot in Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A serviceman of the Belarusian Defense Ministry wearing protective gear disinfects a colleague after a hospital disinfection in Minsk. (TASS)
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A crow walks across an empty road in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst)
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A doll is seen on a windowsill in a damaged house in Aleksandrovka in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region following shelling. Three girls -- aged between 7 and 10 -- were reportedly injured in the attack. The village of Aleksandrovka is controlled by Russia-backed separatists. (TASS/Valentin Sprinchak)
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A man carries a religious icon near St. Basil's Cathedral amid the coronavirus outbreak in Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
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A Kazakh artist works on a large mural in Almaty dedicated to front-line workers involved in the country's fight against COVID-19. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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Professional rugby player Alex Craig trains on his parents' farm in Scotland during the coronavirus lockdown. (Reuters/Lee Smith)
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A woman wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus walks past model faces displayed in a window of a wax museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Russian military aircraft fly in formation during a rehearsal in Moscow for a flypast as part of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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People line up to receive free food as the time to break fast approaches during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a coronavirus lockdown in Lahore, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Rahat Dar)
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A man stands in his apartment in a building on the outskirts of Moscow during a strict coronavirus lockdown in the Russian capital on May 4. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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An Afghan man reads the Koran at a mosque in Kabul on May 4. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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A view of Russia's State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg shortly before many of its lights were switched off as part of the city's cost-cutting measures during the coronavirus pandemic on May 3. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
