Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 21st week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #21
- By RFE/RL
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Iranian athlete Maryam Toosi practices on the rooftop of her apartment building following the closure of sports facilities as part of measures aimed at containing the coronavirus in Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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Rescue workers gather at the site of a passenger-plane crash in a residential area near the international airport in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 22. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A migrant prays in a makeshift mosque inside the Sid-Point camp in Sid, Serbia. (Reuters/Marko Djunca)
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Two elderly women wearing face masks walk down a street in the town of Vitebsk, Belarus. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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A man grimaces during a gust of wind at the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest during a religious service ahead of the feast day of saints Constantine and Helena. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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Yulia Yushina is seen through an eye-shaped opening in a piece of pottery in her Moon Ceramic pottery studio. The studio makes ceramic ware and ornamented pieces and offers pottery lessons. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)
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Men cook potatoes at a small traditional factory in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Volunteer hairdressers from the International Association for Relief and Development cut the hair of internally displaced children ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at a camp in Idlib, Syria. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
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Russian conscripts sit next to their beds at a recruiting station in Kaliningrad, Russia. (Reuters/Vitaly Nevar)
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Volleyball player Victoria Palmer trains at Sandbanks Beach in Poole, England. (Reuters/Matthew Childs)
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A worker from Russia's Emergencies Ministry wearing protective gear disinfects Moscow's Leningradsky railway station on May 19. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A woman weeps near the wall of her house, which was damaged by shrapnel in the separatist-controlled village of Staromihailovka in eastern Ukraine. (epa-EFE/Dave Mustaine)
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Kosovar Muslim believers pray on Skanderbeg Square in Pristina. (AFP/Amend Nihani)
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A hot-air balloon is prepared for the start of a race as part of celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the late Pope John Paul II in Krakow. (epa-EFE/Lukasz Gagulski)
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Laborers sort mango at a fruit and vegetable market in Hyderabad, India. (epa-EFE/Nadeem Khawar)
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A public-transport worker at a security checkpoint at Moscow's Leningradsky railway station. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees carry out disinfection of the Kiyevsky Railway Station in Moscow on May 18. (TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofyev)
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Afghan families receive free food rations distributed by traders during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Herat on May 18. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A worker cleans letters on the wall of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in central Moscow on May 17. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)
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Bayern Munich substitute Lukas Mai sits in the stands wearing a protective face mask during the German Bundesliga soccer match featuring 1. FC Union Berlin against Bayern Munich in Berlin on May 17 as play resumed behind closed doors. (epa-EFE/Hannibal Hanschke)
