Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 33rd week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #33
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French tightrope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongoga balances over the Vltava River during her performance to open an international circus festival in Prague. (AP/Petr David Josek)
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A street artist drinks vodka as he sells his paintings to tourists in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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An elderly woman walks on a street in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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A Urals Airlines Airbus A321 made a hard landing on August 15 in a cornfield near Moscow due to a bird strike. There were 233 people on board but only 23 people suffered injuries. (TASS/Emergency Situations Ministry)
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A woman and a girl take a dip in the cold water of the Golubaya Krinitsa (Blue Spring) during celebrations of Orthodox Honey Savior, which is also called the Savior on Water, near the town of Slavgorod, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Riot police disperse pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong International Airport. The protests were sparked by opposition to a plan to allow extraditions to the mainland but have since morphed into a wider call for democratic rights in the semiautonomous city. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
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Children ride on a manual Ferris wheel outside the Kart-e Sakhi shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Pakistani women sing their country's national anthem with Kashmir's flag to express solidarity with the people of the disputed region during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan's 72nd Independence Day in Karachi on August 14. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Indian students with the colors of their national flag on their hands take part in Independence Day celebrations in Hyderabad on August 14. (AP/Noah Seelam)
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A meteor streaks across the sky near the Monument to the Revolution, a World War II memorial in Mrakovica, Bosnia. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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Wildfires burning in the village of Kontodespoti, on the island of Evia, Greece. (Reuters/Michalis Karagiannis)
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People walk near the statue The Motherland Calls under reconstruction in Mamayev Kurgan, the main site of the Battle of Stalingrad memorial, during sunset in Volgograd. (AP/Dmitry Rogulin)
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The famous Kalyazin Bell Tower, part of the submerged monastery of St. Nicholas, is seen in the morning fog in the town of Kalyazin on the Volga River. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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A Perseid meteor crosses the night sky and stars trails above the ruins of a medieval castle in the village of Kreva, some 100 kilometers northwest of Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Saudi soldiers carry a woman in a wheelchair as she throws pebbles as part on the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual at the Jamarat Bridge during the hajj pilgrimage near Mecca on August 11. (epa-EFE)
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Ukraine's Oleksiy Sereda, 13, competes on his way to win the gold medal in the 10-meter platform final at the European Diving Championship in Kyiv on August 11. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)