Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 15th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
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Pigeons fly in front of a large poster of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Bursa. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

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A costumed participant skis on a pool as part of the Californication 9.0 humoristic competition marking the end of the winter season outside the town of Lahoysk, Belarus, on April 7. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)

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Young people dance on the Moskva River embankment during a sunny day in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

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Kyrgyz national honor guards lay a wreath at a monument to those killed during the April 2010 uprising at the Ata-Beyit cemetery outside the capital, Bishkek, on April 7. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)