Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 47th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #47
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A woman looks at a wall full of QR codes in a park next to the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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A woman walks outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. (AP/Francisco Seco)
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A man feeds seagulls with fish under the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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Flowers and candles adorn a memorial for slain Maidan activists on the sixth anniversary of the start of the pro-Western protests in central Kyiv on November 21. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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Pakistani fishermen return home as the sun sets on a beach in Karachi. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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A woman walks along a street in the old Moscow neighborhood east of the Kremlin known as Kitai-Gorod, which dates from the 1500s,. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A troupe of Thai performers dance after a Holy Mass by Pope Francis at the National Stadium in Bangkok on November 21. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)
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A Russian beggar woman seeks alms on Tverskaya Street in downtown Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Illegal migrants gather around a small fire inside their tent at the Vucjak camp on the outskirts of the Bosnian city of Bihac. (AFP/Elvis Barukic)
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An Afghan vendor waits for customers at his firewood stall in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A woman carries a basket on her head through a field of vegetables on a foggy morning in the Indian city of Srinagar, Kashmir. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
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People walk past a bank that was burned during recent protests in the Iranian town of Shahriar, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
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People get ready to welcome Ukrainian Navy ships upon arrival at a port in Ochakiv, in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, on November 20. The ships were seized by Russia in the Kerch Strait in 2018 and held for almost a year. (AFP/Oleksandr Gimanov)
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A man walks in front of a fire blockade set up by supporters of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales on the outskirts of Sacaba, Chapare Province. (AFP/Ronaldo Scheimdt)
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Georgian riot police disperse opposition supporters during a protest rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi on November 18. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
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Protesters run from tear gas as they try to reenter the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) after a failed attempt to leave, during clashes with police in Hong Kong on November 18. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
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Visitors pass an animation during the press preview of the exhibition Move Little Hands, Move! by Czech surrealists Jan and Eva Svankmajer in Dresden, Germany, on November 18. (epa-EFE/Filip Singer)
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A father and his child visit the Freedom memorial, leftovers of the barbwire fence dividing Austria from the former Czechoslovakia, at Devinska Nova Ves, Slovakia, on November 17. (AFP/Joe Klamar)