Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 39th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 39
- By RFE/RL
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Kosovar women mourn next to coffins bearing the remains of their relatives killed by Serbian security forces during the 1998-99 Kosovo War after they were returned by Serbia at the Kosovo-Serbia border crossing in Merdare on September 30.
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A demonstration dedicated to Volodymyr Dudka's birthday is held in Kyiv on September 30. Dudka is one of three Ukrainians arrested in 2016 in Crimea and jailed for 14 years by Russia for attempted sabotage.
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A burqa-clad Afghan woman living in Pakistan waits to get registered during a registration drive at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 30.
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A dog wearing a crown is seen at the 2021 Golden Pet Awards at the Federation Tower of the Moscow International Business Center.
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A member of the Taliban pushes a journalist who was covering a demonstration by women protesters outside a school in Kabul.
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A view of anchored fishing boats after Pakistani fishermen in Karachi were advised not to venture out to sea due to rough conditions following the cyclonic storm Gulab in the Arabian Sea.
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Ballet dancers perform during a rehearsal of Swan Lake in St. Petersburg.
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Shi'ite Muslims beat their chests during a religious procession to mark the 40th day of mourning after the anniversary of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 28.
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A girl poses for a photo as she plays in a poor Kabul neighborhood where hundreds of internally displaced people from the eastern part of Afghanistan have been living for years.
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Taliban fighters ride on paddle boats at Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Boats sail in the Black Sea near a tornado at sunset in Sochi, Russia, on September 28.
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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov rides a horse in a parade marking Independence Day in Ashgabat on September 27.
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Azerbaijani soldiers carry portraits of servicemen and civilians who were killed during fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict.
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People march with torches in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to commemorate the victims of the 2020 armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Pakistani women jostle to get free milk at a distribution point during a three-day annual festival celebrating the famous saint Data Ganjbaksh at his shrine in Lahore.
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People with their belongings cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan at the Spin Boldak border crossing.
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Environmental activists take art in a rally calling for climate action in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Afghan boys ride in the trunk of a car in Kabul.
