Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 34th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #34
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A child dressed as the Hindu Lord Krishna poses during the festival of Janmashtami in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohamma Ponir Hossain)
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People gather for the inauguration ceremony of a new mosque in the Chechen town of Shali that local authorities say is the largest in Europe. (Reuters/Said Tsarnayev)
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Firefighters extinguish a blaze at an industrial building in St. Petersburg on August 22. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
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An Iranian woman buys shoes at a local bazaar in Bandar Abbas.
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Pedestrians walk along the Vinogradovsky bridge across the Yenisei River on Russia's National Flag Day in central Krasnoyarsk on August 22. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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People look at a forest fire in Marbella in southern Spain on August 22. (epa-EFE)
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People relax in a spring near Banja Luka, Bosnia. Weather forecasters predict hot weather across the country over the next few days. (AP/Radivoje Pavicic)
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People observe the Nil Barahi mask dance festival, an annual event during which dancers perform while posing as various deities that people worship to seek blessings, in Bode, Nepal. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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A couple kisses in front of the cross established in honor of the 50th anniversary of World War II in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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An Afghan woman cries as she touches a banner displaying photographs of victims of a wedding hall bombing during a memorial service in Kabul. The bombing killed at least 80 people. A local affiliate of the Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A view of a mural depicting Russia's Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, created by Italian artist Jorit Agoch in Odintsovo, near Moscow, during a festival in which 60 artists from Russia, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia, England, France, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Mexico, Thailand, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, China, and Switzerland are participating. (epa-EFE/Maksim Shipenkov)
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A man caries a wounded person to the hospital after a blast in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on August 19. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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An Orthodox priest blesses apples and pears in a church during the Yablochniy Spas, or Apple Feast of the Savior, a religious holiday in Bobruisk, Belarus, on August 19. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Turkish police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators in Diyarbakir during a protest against the replacement of Kurdish mayors with state officials in three cities on August 19. (Reuters/Sertac Kayar)
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People lay in tomato pulp as they take part in the first Russian Tomatina battle in St. Petersburg on August 18. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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An Afghan man cries as he sits inside a damaged wedding hall on August 18 after a blast the night before in Kabul that killed at least 63 people. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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The shoes of victims are seen outside a damaged wedding hall after a blast in Kabul on August 17 that killed at least 63 people. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A competitor takes part in the annual international waterfall-jumping competition held in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on August 17. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)