Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 22nd week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #22
1
Participants of the Khamoro World Roma Festival dance through the historic center of Prague, Czech Republic. (Reuters/David W Cerny)
2
A man spreads a bucket of feed for pigeons, as many believe feeding the birds brings good luck, after Friday Prayers during the holy month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 1. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
3
Antigovernment protesters in Tbilisi hold their cell phones aloft as protest leader Zaza Saralidze speaks to the crowd on June 1 in the Georgian capital. The mass rallies began on May 31 as a protest against the verdict in the trial of two young men suspected of murdering a teenager. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
4
A fisherman passes buoys in the port of Gouqi Island, Zhejiang Province, around 100 kilometers southwest of Shanghai. (AFP/Johannes Eisele)
5
Afghan vendor Rafi, 9, poses for a photograph as he sells brooms at a roadside stall in Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
6
People light up their mobile phones as they attend a protest rally in front of the old parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 31. Thousands gathered to protest what they said was political influence in the trial of teens allegedly involved in the stabbing death of two teenage boys in a brawl in December. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
7
Children from the region around Chernobyl in Ukraine look out the window of a plane after arriving in Hanover, Germany. Children suffering health consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident were invited by the regional Evangelical Lutheran Church and will stay for four weeks with German host families. (AFP/dpa/Ole Spata)
8
Protesters shout antigovernment slogans during a protest in front of the Romanian government headquarters in Bucharest. Around 2,000 people gathered after Romania's Constitutional Court ruled that President Klaus Iohannis must approve the government's dismissal of the country's top anticorruption prosecutor, Laura Kovesi. The government accuses Kovesi of violating the constitution, but her supporters say she has been targeted for investigating corruption among Romania's political elite. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
9
Russian dissident journalist Arkady Babchenko (right) and the deputy chief of the Crimean Tatar channel ATR where he works, Aider Muzhdabaiev, look at a memorial set up by Babchenko's colleagues after news of his death, in Kyiv on May 31. Babchenko's death was faked by Ukraine's security services to uncover what they said was a plot to assassinate him. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
10
Migrants stand in line with their belongings as French police evacuate hundreds living in makeshift camps in Paris, France, on May 30. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
11
Dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko (center), who was reported to have been shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital on May 29, stands beside Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko (right) and the head of the state security service (SBU), Vasily Gritsak, during a news briefing in Kyiv where it was revealed that Babchenko's supposed killing was part of a sting operation to thwart an alleged Russian plot to assassinate him.
12
A man cools off under a water pipe from a canal in hot and sunny weather on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
13
An Afghan boy pulls his little brother in a basket on the outskirts of Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
14
Volcanic gases rise from the Kilauea lava flow near Pahoa in Hawaii. (Reuters/Marco Gracia)
15
Olympic figure-skating gold medalist Alina Zagitova of Russia holds an Akita Inu puppy named Masaru, which was presented by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a visit to Moscow. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
16
Afghan girls arrive to read the Koran in a madrasah, or religious school, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
17
A passenger bathes beside railway tracks on a hot summer afternoon on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Temperatures reached 42.5 Celsius. (AP/Channi Anand)
18
Free food is placed on tables on a roadside in Karachi, Pakistan, as the time to break the Ramadan approaches. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
19
Pakistani youth cool down at a swimming pool during a a hot day in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
20
An Afghan cigarette vendor waits for customers at his stall along a road in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)