Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 50th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (December 9-15)
- By RFE/RL
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People in Kosovo take part in the Run Santa event in Pristina to raise funds for charity.
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Two teams in Kabul compete at the start of the sixth season of the Afghan Buzkashi Premier League on December 11.
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A vendor waits for customers amid a display of Matryoshka dolls in Moscow's Red Square.
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Hundreds of protesters gather outside Serbia's national broadcaster in Belgrade to demand accountability for the collapse of a concrete train station canopy that killed 15 people in the city of Novi Sad last month.
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Pakistani laborers in Sindh Province process sugarcane juice to produce jaggery, a traditional unrefined sugar that is used as a natural sweetener.
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The aftermath of the Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhya on December 10.
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Afghan men sit around a fire at a market on a cold winter day in Herat.
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People gather around a fire to beat the cold in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Demonstrators take photos of a coffin containing an image depicting Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili during mass protests against the government's postponement of EU accession talks until 2028, in central Tbilisi.
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A view of the skyline in Kabul
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A man fishes on a frozen pond at a residential area in Moscow.
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Leo Gudmundur Rafnsson of Iceland competes in a heat of the Men's 100m Backstroke at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships in Budapest.
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A Ukrainian soldier drives a vehicle on a road leading to the town of Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, eastern Donetsk region.
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A woman sits next to food aid distributed by a local charity foundation in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.
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Rescuers carry a wounded civilian after a Russian missile hit a private medical clinic in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
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Russia Ukraine War Christmas
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NOVI SAD SERBIA Hundreds of citizens gathered in front of the building of the Rectorate of the University of Novi Sad, protest "I think, therefore I block"
