Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area for the 48th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #48
- By RFE/RL
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A person walks with a dog during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)
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Afghan children sort pomegranate seeds for export in Kandahar. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)
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A ruby star atop one of the Kremlin's towers during a snowfall in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A woman wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus walks past a mural depicting late Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Amfilohije in Belgrade. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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Afghan men ride a donkey cart in heavy fog in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Robots made by local enthusiasts in the region of Donetsk, Ukraine, parts of which are controlled by Russian-backed separatists. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
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A climber removes ice from the cables of the Russian Bridge in Vladivostok. (TASS/Viktor Gokhovich)
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Morning fog covers the landscape around the Castle of Somosko, near Salgotarjan, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Peter Komka)
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People ride a camel on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
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A worker sprays sanitizer on a student's shoes at a school in Lahore. Pakistan will again close all educational institutions as of November 26 because of a steady and increasingly drastic increase in coronavirus cases. (AP/K.M.Chaudary)
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A man and his son make their way toward home as they carry a stove to be used for heating in Kabul. Due to the shortage of electricity, the majority of people in Afghanistan use coal and wood as the only energy supply for warming their houses and cooking during the winter season. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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A man harvests persimmons in his garden in Stepanakert, the main city of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. (AFP/Karen Minasian)
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People walk past graffiti depicting a Russian health-care worker fighting the coronavirus in Omsk. (Reuters/Aleksei Malgavko)
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Dancers of Kosovo Ballet perform during a rehearsal amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Pristina. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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A woman wearing a boxing glove takes part in a rally against police violence by Belarusian pensioners in Minsk on November 23. (AFP)
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Unexploded ammunition is scattered around a damaged ammunition store near Aeygestan, on the outskirts of Stepanakert, the main city of the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Children perform during the opening of a private ballet school run by the former soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, Maria Volodina, in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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A vendor sells umbrellas outside closed shops in northern Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
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Riot police detain an opposition supporter during a rally in central Minsk on November 22. (TASS)
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An internally displaced Afghan boy sits outside his shelter during a snowfall in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
