Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 27th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #27
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People walk past a poster with the hashtag #freesentsov and a photo of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, taken by journalist Anton Naumlyuk, and displayed in a shop window in the center of Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Police hold back revelers as the Festival of San Fermin begins in Pamplona in northern Spain. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world attend the fiesta, made famous by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises. Many of them participate in the highlight of the event -- the running of the bulls, or encierro -- where they attempt to outrun bulls along a route through the narrow streets of the old city. (EPA-EFE/Jim Hollander)
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Revelers cool down as water is poured on them from people on balconies during the launch of the Chupinazo rocket to celebrate the official opening of the 2018 San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. (AP/Alvaro Barrientos)
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Employees sort footballs at a company manufacturing sports equipment in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Porcelain figures are displayed in the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. The museum is dedicated to space exploration, with exhibits, items, and models related to the Soviet and Russia space eras. (EPA-EFE/Felipe Trueba)
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Women wearing traditional costumes look at installations with goldfish in illuminated tanks at Art Aquarium 2018 in Tokyo. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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People riding scooters and motorcycles cross the Taipei Bridge from Sanchung to go to work in Taipei, Taiwan. The number of motorbikes moving down the Taipei Bridge has earned it the nickname Motorbike Waterfall, attracting many tourists and photographers every morning. Motorbikes are the most common means of transportation in Taiwan. According to the Environmental Protection Administration, there are nearly 14 million motorbikes in Taiwan, which has a population of 23 million. (EPA-EFE/David Chang)
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An Afghan woman works in a traditional wool factory in Herat. The goat wool is destined for export to China. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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A woman sells lettuce at a food market in Kazan, Russia. (AFP/Benjamin Cremel)
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Activists from the Spanish Proactiva Open Arms charity place a life jacket on the Christopher Columbus statue after the Open Arms rescue boat arrived at a port in Barcelona carrying migrants rescued off the coast of Libya. (Reuters/Albert Gea)
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Spectators watch a fireworks display on the east side of Manhattan, part of Independence Day festivities on July 4 in New York. (AP/Craig Ruttle)
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Protesters take part in a demonstration against bullfighting before the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. (Reuters/Vincent West)
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A Pakistani man rides his horse cart through a flooded square after heavy rains in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Youths from a camp for the displaced in the Syrian village of Al-Rafid clutch a barbed-wire fence near a checkpoint along the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights during a protest against the Syrian government and calling for international protection. (AFP/Jawad Abu Hamza)
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Members of the LGBT community shout slogans at a gay-pride parade in Istanbul on July 1. (EPA-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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An Afghan pigeon fancier, Abdul Ghani, 70, sits as he feeds his pigeons from the rooftop of his home in Herat Province on July 1. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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A displaced Syrian child from Daraa Province fleeing shelling by pro-government forces waits on July 1 in a makeshift camp to cross the Jordanian border, near the town of Nasib, in southern Syria. Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled since the beginning of the offensive, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says that nearly 100 civilians have been killed. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)
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A Russian fan celebrates in central Moscow after Russia won its knockout match in the Round of 16 against Spain on July 1 in the 2018 World Cup. (AFP/Konstantin Chalabov)