Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 40th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #40
- By RFE/RL
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A worker feeds oak barrels with wine in the cellar of the Stone Castle winery near the town of Rahovec, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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People walk on the street in Podgorica as schools officially started the new school year in Montenegro on September 30 in accordance with health protocols due to the coronavirus pandemic, following measures such as limiting the number of students, social distancing and wearing face masks. (epa-EFE/Boris Pejovic)
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Russian National Guard troops in the Volga Federal District taking tests during training exercises. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)
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A boy playing in fall leaves at the Ostafyevo park in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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An elderly Pakistani man sleeps on a roadside in Peshawar. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)
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A cultivator is used to loosen the soil and prepare it for autumn sowing near the Miklosfa district of Nagykanizsa, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Gyorgy Varga)
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Kids ride bicycles along a road in the Dand district of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A local resident stands next to a destroyed building following a forest fire in the village of Syrotyne in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region. (Ukrainian Governmental Press Service via Reuters/Sergii Kharchenko)
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A man shows a shell fragment in the yard of his brother's house, which was damaged by shelling during fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the disputed region's city of Martuni on October 1. (AFP)
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A handout photo made available by the Armenian Defense Ministry on September 30 shows an Armenian soldier during military clashes with Azerbaijani troops along the Line of Contact in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. (epa-EFE)
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Boys sit on a bench under a campaign banner for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan featuring an image of former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev in the village of Arashan, some 20 kilometers from Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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Students attend a class during the first day of primary school after the resumption of classes in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 30. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
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A migrant from Bangladesh stands inside an old abandoned factory near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where hundreds of migrants from Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa have set up makeshift camps near the border with EU-member Croatia. ( Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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An ethnic Armenian soldier in the separatist Karabakh forces fires an artillery piece toward Azerbaijani positions during fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region on September 28. ( AFP/Armenian Defense Ministry)
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A Jewish man touches an installation opened at Babyn Yar during a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary on September 29 of the beginning of the mass execution of Jews by the Nazis there in September 1941. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A little Kyrgyz boy holds the flag of the Ata-Meken party in Bishkek. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
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An Afghan girl works at a carpet loom in Herat. ( epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Afghan laborers work at an iron factory in Jalalabad. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)
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Staff in a restaurant gesture in support as participants take part in an opposition rally protesting the official presidential election results in Minsk. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital calling for Alyaksandr Lukashenka's ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him, as protests marked their 50th consecutive day on September 27. (AP/TUT.by)
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Afghan women work at a carpet loom in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A member of the Russian hydroflight team performs during a World Tourism Day celebration on the Neva River in St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A herd of sheep gather on a pasture in front of a mountainous landscape near the village of Gornaya Maevka, some 30 kilometers from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
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People watch state TV as they gather in a bomb shelter to protect against shelling in Stepanakert, the capital of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh authorities reported that shelling hit Stepanakert and the towns of Martakert and Martuni. Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over Nagorno-Karabakh entered a third day on September 29 as the two sides blamed each other for the hostilities amid international calls for an immediate end to the fighting. (Armenian Foreign Ministry via AP)
