Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 24th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #24
- By RFE/RL
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Locusts swarm a residential area of Quetta, Pakistan, on June 12, where an outbreak of desert locusts is threatening food security, officials say. (AP/Arshad Butt)
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Boys bathe in a canal as the weather turns warm in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 12. (AP/Muhammad Saijad)
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Muscovites enjoy warm weather near a fountain in the Russian capital on June 11. (TASS/Mikhail Metzel)
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Muslims perform midday prayers while wearing masks and keeping a social distance of 1.5 meters in a central mosque in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
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A woman undergoes a test for the coronavirus at a clinic in Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
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A girl rides a bicycle in front of a fountain and Cosmos pavilion with a Soviet-era Vostok rocket, at the All-Russia Exhibition of National Economy in Moscow. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlyanichenko)
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People walk through the subway, with a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in the background, in Moscow. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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An Iranian woman takes a train in a subway station in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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An Afghan woman produces protective face masks at a factory in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Lightning strikes above a Catholic church during a thunderstorm in the Belarusian village of Kreva, some 100 kilometers northwest of Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Russian fighter jets fly in formation during a rehearsal for a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Alabino on June 10. (TASS/Sergei Bobylev)
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An Iranian woman wearing a face mask sits in a train in a Tehran subway station on June 10. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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Pigeons cool down at a public fountain in downtown Bucharest. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghementi)
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Children play in a fountain in the Russian city of Sochi on June 8. (TASS/Dmitry Feoktistov)
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A full moon rises next to a television tower in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
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A man runs in front of a mural inspired by the coronavirus pandemic in Skopje, North Macedonia. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
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A worker wearing a face mask and a protective suit prepares coffins that will be later distributed to hospitals to transport people who have died from COVID-19 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Sohail Shahzad)
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A woman rides her skateboard at the Sokolniki park in Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dikoff)
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Anton Mikheyev, an artist from the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, trains in a forest amid Russia's restrictions due to the coronavirus. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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The hands of a woman collecting signatures for alternative candidates in Belarus's upcoming presidential election is reflected in the glasses of a man in Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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A protester wearing a face mask attends a rally in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the center of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, on June 6. (AFP/Nikolay Doychinov)
