Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 43rd week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #43
- By RFE/RL
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Belarusian law enforcement officers and service members block a street during an opposition rally to reject the presidential election results in Minsk on October 25. (Reuters)
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A member of an election commission wearing personal protection equipment stands next to a ballot box at a polling station during local elections in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on October 25. (Reuters/Stanislav Kozliuk)
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People wear face masks as they shop in Sofia's largest outdoor food market. (AFP/Nikolay Doychinov)
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Wearing a protective face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Russian police officer detains a man at a metro station in Novosibirsk on October 23. (TASS/Kirill Kukhman)
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Afghan men wait to collect tokens needed to apply for a Pakistani visa at Islamabad's consulate in Jalalabad. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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Pakistani man Muhammad Ikram, who was born without arms, plays snooker with his chin at a local club in Samundri. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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A medic talks to a sick woman in a bomb shelter in Nagorno-Karabakh's main city, Stepanakert. (AP)
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Afghan laborers work at a factory that produces fiberglass in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Smog blankets the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, on October 21. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
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A butterfly sits on a flower near a fragment of a rocket after shelling near Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP)
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Construction workers look at a chandelier during the refurbishment of the Orthodox Saint-Sava Church in Belgrade, Serbia. (AFP/Oliver Bunc)
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Pakistani security officials attend the scene of an explosion that targeted a passenger bus in Karachi on October 20. (epa-EFE/Zaib Akber)
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A man transports geese on top of his car as he drives on a highway heading toward the Azerbaijani city of Ganca. (Reuters/Umit Bektas)
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People inspect the merchandise at a bird market in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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An elderly man receives free bread from a bakery in the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. (AFP/Aris Messinis)
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An Afghan boy sorts pine cones in Jalalabad. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)
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An ethnic Armenian soldier rests in a trench at fighting positions on the front line amid the military conflict against Azerbaijan's armed forces in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on October 20. (Reuters)
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An Iranian woman wearing a face mask walks on a street in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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An Afghan woman collects cotton buds at a government farms in Jalalabad. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)
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A student of Russia's General Yermolov Cadet School poses for a picture before boarding a plane as she takes part in a parachute-jumping exercise at an airfield in the village of Novomaryevskaya outside Stavropol. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)
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A municipal worker wearing a face mask and a protective suit to protect against the coronavirus disinfects a square near the Lenin monument in central Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Men in Shushi (Susa) enter a cathedral damaged by shelling during the military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Russian serviceman stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
