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Фото недели 16-22 апреля

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An Iranian student from a university in the city of Qazvin sits behind a religious flag as she takes part in a three-day sit-in demonstration outside the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on April 22, to protest against Saudi Arabia's support of Bahraini leaders during the suppression of Bahrain's recent antigovernment protests.
Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters
Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters

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A light burns next to two cameras posed symbolicallly during a memorial service for slain photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros held in Benghazi on April 21. Fellow media workers, diplomats, local rebel officials and relief workers paid homage to the pair, who were killed by a mortar strike in the besieged western Libyan city of Misurata on April 20.
Photo by Odd Andersen for AFP
Photo by Odd Andersen for AFP

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A participant of the international conference "25 years after Chernobyl" lights a candle in Minsk on April 18. Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear reactor explosion in Chornobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear accident, on April 26.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko for Reuters
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko for Reuters

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Workers wash and clean a statue of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state and creator of the Soviet Communist Party, in central Krasnoyarsk on April 20, 2011. Supporters of Lenin marked the 141st anniversary of his birth on April 22.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin for Reuters
Photo by Ilya Naymushin for Reuters