Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 29th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Russians Swelter In Heatwave, A Fiery Equestrian Event Is Held In Kyrgyzstan -- The Week In Photos
- By RFE/RL
Russians look to cool down as a heatwave engulfs much of Europe while the Gallops international equestrian event comes to Kyrgyzstan.
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A horseback rider performs a fire stunt during a show organized for participants in the Gallops 2025 equestrian rally near Lake Song Kol in Kyrgyzstan.
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Participants in the Gallops' 2025 equestrian event play a game of Kyz kuar.
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A participant performs an acrobatic exercise at Gallops 2025.
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Participants at Gallops 2025 take part in a traditional game of Kok Boru in Kyrgyzstan.
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A Russian woman sits at a fountain on a hot day in St. Petersburg.
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Russian children cool off in a fountain during a sweltering day in Moscow.
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People cool down at a fountain in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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An Afghan man prepares tandoor clay ovens, traditionally used for baking naan or bread, in Mazar-e Sharif.
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Hungary's Daniel Angyal celebrates after his country won a water polo match against Serbia at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
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Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against a law that would remove the independence of two key anti-corruption bodies, in downtown Kyiv on July 23.
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Residents leave the site of a Russian air strike in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian rescuer works to extinguish a fire at the site of an aerial attack on Kharkiv.
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Cars burn at the site of the Russian air strike on Kharkiv.
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A Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest says mass in a Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region.
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A woman with her dogs leaves the site of a Russian air strike on Kharkiv.
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A Ukrainian POW kisses the hand of his daughter after a prisoner swap with Russia.
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Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
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A man drinks a cup of green tea in a tea shop in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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A young camel whose front limb was brutally chopped off by a landlord in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh walks for the first time with a prosthetic leg at an animal welfare facility in Karachi.
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Asian elephants in a zoo in Sofia are sprayed with water to cool down during a heatwave in the Bulgarian capital.
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Soldiers carry coffins during a funeral ceremony in Lviv for 12 Ukrainian servicemen and prisoners of war who died while in Russian captivity.
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People kneel in Lviv as they pay their respects to the 12 Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russian captivity.
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A tractor cuts a fire line as a wildfire burns near the settlement of Beledie Han in Bulgaria.
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An aerial view shows a woman harvesting tobacco leaves near the village of Baldevo, southwest of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.
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A Polish serviceman stands guard at the Poland-Belarus border in the village of Polowce.
