Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 22nd week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #22
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A woman holds an EU flag as she walks in the late afternoon light outside the European Parliament in Brussels. (AP/Francisco Seco)
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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov (right) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ride in a GAZ-21 Volga car during a meeting in Ashgabat on May 31. (AFP)
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An Afghan man inspects broken glass from his garage at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 31. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Secondary-school graduates play in a fountain as they celebrate the last day of school, traditionally called the "last bell," in central Kyiv on May 31. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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An art light installation is displayed during a festival in Skopje, North Macedonia. (Reuters/Ognen Teofilovski)
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Indian Muslims offer last congregational Friday Prayers for the holy month of Ramadan on a road in Agartala on May 31. (AFP)
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev pets a Central Asian Shepherd puppy presented to him by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in Ashgabat. (TASS)
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A Chelsea assistant coach picks up a butterfly from a football during a training session at the Baku Olympic Stadium ahead of his team's UEFA Europa League final game against Arsenal. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A wounded Syrian girl is transferred to a hospital following a reported air strike by regime forces and their allies on Maaret al-Noman in the southwestern Idlib Province on May 30. (AFP/Abdulaziz Ketaz)
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A man is seen in silhouette as he smokes a cigarette at his shop in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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A woman poses with a poster of the Chelsea team in a fan zone on the eve of the Europa League final soccer match between Arsenal and Chelsea in Baku. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A member of the Russian national hydrofly team performs a stunt during an extreme-water-sports show under Palace Bridge in St. petersburg on May 27. (TASS/Pyotr Kovalev)
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Nepalese soldiers pile up the garbage collected from Mount Everest in Namche Bajar on May 27. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Police detain a woman during a yellow-vest protest with other groups in Brussels on May 26. (AP/Francesco Seco)
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A man is seen through a curtain as he reads the Koran in separation, as a part of "Itikaf," a practice of staying in a mosque for worship for the last 10 days of the holy month of Ramadan, in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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A man evacuates a young bombing casualty after a reported air strike by regime forces and their allies in the jihadist-held Syrian town of Maaret al-Noman in the southern Idlib Province on May 26. (AFP/Abdulaziz Ketaz)