Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 36th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #36
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Separatist fighters of the Donetsk region stand guard during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Donbas region from Nazi occupation during World War II, near the war memorial complex Savu on September 7. (Reuters/Aleksandr Yermochenko)
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A Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet of the Russian Eastern Military District performs a test flight over Ajax Bay by Russky Island on September 5. (TASS/Yury Smityuk)
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Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, on September 6. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. (AP/Noah Berger)
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Filya, a 2-year-old lion, gets very friendly with tourists at Crimea's Taigan Safari Park on September 5. (TASS/Sergei Malgavko)
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Indian rescue workers and villagers gather near a collapsed bridge in the Indian state of West Bengal. No casualties were reported in the collapse. (AFP/Diptendu Dutta)
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Turkey's Janset Genel in full flight during the mounted archery event, which the 18-year-old would go on to win, at the third World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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A light show is displayed on the Ryugyong hotel amid the city skyline of Pyongyang. North Korea is preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding on September 9. (AFP/Ed Jones)
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Participants ride horses as they compete for a goat carcass during a game of buzkashi in Bayingol, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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A contestant in competition at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan on September 6. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
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An aerial photo shows the aftermath of a large landslide that occurred after an earthquake hit Hokkaido in northern Japan on September 6. (epa-EFE/Jiji Press)
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A group of dancers performs during the launch of a container ship in Le Havre, France. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
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A man holds an Iraqi national flag while protesters burn a municipal complex during protests demanding better public services and jobs in the city of Basra, 550 kilometers southeast of Baghdad. (AP/Nabil al-Jurani)
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A man looks out of an opening of a makeshift shelter in an underground cave in Idlib, Syria. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
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A laborer works at the world's largest amber deposit in the village of Yantarny in Russia's Kaliningrad region. (Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS)
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A mock horse battle gets under way at the World Nomad Games 2018 in Kyrgyzstan on September 4. (Amos Chapple/RFE/RL)
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Cars are seen stuck in a traffic jam on St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt on September 3. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
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A child sits in front of a tent at a camp for the displaced from the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, in the village of Al-Ghadfa, southeast of the province. The Syrian regime and its ally Russia are threatening an offensive to retake the northwestern province, Syria's last rebel bastion. (AFP/Nazeer Al-Khatib)
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A scene from the opening ceremonies of the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, on September 2. The biannual games are held to "revive and preserve the culture of nomadic civilizations," according to the organizers. More than 3,000 athletes from 77 countries are participating this year. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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People watch as a fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Authorities fear the destruction of more than 20 million items. The cause of the fire is not yet known.(Reuters/Ricardo Moraes)
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An Indian Hindu devotee breaks a dahi-handi -- or curd pot -- during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of the Hindu god Lord Krishna, in Mumbai. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
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A sculpture called Helter Shelter, depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and created by artist Callum Morton, is seen as part of the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair preview at Barangaroo in Sydney, Australia. (EPA-EFE/Paul Braven)
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Athletes take photos during the closing ceremony of the Asian Games in Jakarta. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)
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People shout slogans as they hold a poster reading "Pension Reform" during a Communist Party rally protesting hikes in the retirement age in St. Petersburg. Several thousand people gathered in central Moscow and St. Petersburg on September 2. Other demonstrations were reported in Vladivostok in the Far East and Barnaul and Novosibirsk in Siberia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)