2009 Year In Photos
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Russian policemen detain a participant of a banned National-Bolshevic ultra-left organization, shouting 'We hate government!' during a communist protest rally in the center of Moscow on 31 January 2009. Some hundred demonstrators demanded support for the working class amidst the national crisis. (epa)
March of dissent
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A scene from the International Santa Claus Festival in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on February 7, 2009. (RFE/RL)
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U.S. soldiers talk with Afghan children during a patrol in the village of Narizah in Khost province, some 200 kms southeast of Kabul on February 7, 2009. Village elders told U.S. soldiers they need help for reconstruction and complained they receive nothing from their own government, especially after stopping cultivation of the opium poppy.
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Iranian schoolgirls wave Iranian flags during a rally to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution at Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran on February 10, 2009. Tens of thousands of Iranians chanting anti-US slogans took to streets of Tehran for a mass rally marking 30 years since the Islamic revolution toppled the U.S.-backed shah. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)