Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the fifth week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #5
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A huge flag of Greece flies over people demonstrating to urge the government not to compromise in the festering name row with neighboring Macedonia in Athens on February 4. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)
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A masked person wearing a traditional carnival costume poses in St. Mark Square in Venice during Venice's Carnival on February 4. (AFP/Tiziana Fabi)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony during an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd on February 2. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)
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Police officers stand near The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd on February 2. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A drone shot of the belfry of St. Nicholas's Cathedral in the town of Kalyazin in Russia's Tver Region. (AFP/Dmitry Serebryakov)
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A Soyuz rocket takes off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on February 1. (TASS/Donat Sorokin)
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A skateboarder practices next to a modern bronze statue of Alexander the Great in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. (AP/Giannis Papanikos)
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A super blue blood moon is seen above the tower of the Lakhta Center, which is under construction in St. Petersburg, Russia. (TASS/Peter Kovalev)
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Fishermen walk on the solid ice surface of a waterway in Kyiv. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Photographers descend on Sid the pug at a media preview event for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
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Honor guard soldiers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along the snow-covered Kremlin wall in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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A full moon shines over a monument dedicated to Red Army heroes in Vladivostok, Russia. (AP/Yevgeny Uvarov)
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Female Peshmerga officers celebrate after their graduation ceremony at the Zakho military academy in Iraq's Kurdistan region. (epa-EFE/Gailan Haji)
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A masked participant carries a burning mattress during the ancient carnival of Zubieta in the northern Spanish province of Navarra. (AFP/Ander Gillenea)
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Afghan boys slide down a snow-covered slope in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Afghan children walk during a snowfall on the outskirts of Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A nomadic woman looks out from a window of her house in the Talesh area of Iran, close to the Caspian Sea. Due to heavy snow and a shortage of grasses, Talesh nomads descend from the mountains to the foothills in winter and return in late spring. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Nepali Hindu devotees take part in a bathing ritual on the last day of the monthlong Swasthani Festival in the Hanumante River at Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu. (AFP/Prakash Mathema)
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington on January 30. (Reuters/Win McNamee)
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A Turkish soldier is seen in an armored personnel carrier at a checkpoint near the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis Province, Turkey. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
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Tourists ride camels as they visit the snow-covered desert at Mingsha Shan in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Riot police detain a protester holding a poster reading "Putin, you are not my president" during a rally in St. Petersburg on January 28 against the Central Election Commission's decision to ban opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's presidential candidacy. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Small trucks loaded with potatoes stand abandoned following air strikes by government forces that hit a vegetable market in the town of Saraqeb in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
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People gather in a square in Moscow during a rally on January 28 held by supporters of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who is calling for a boycott of the March 18 presidential election. (Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva)
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A farm worker stacks cauliflower outside Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)