Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 51st week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (December 16-22)
- By RFE/RL
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A Ukrainian woman holds her cats amid an evacuation of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.
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People take shelter in a metro station during an air-raid alert in Kyiv.
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A vendor sells secondhand shoes at a roadside market in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
4
Bosnia-Herzegovina's 172-meter-high Avaz Twist Tower peaks through a dense layer of fog and smog in Sarajevo.
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A woman passes Christmas decorations in the center of the Moldovan capital, Chisinau.
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A seagull flies by as two others sit on an electric light on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzali.
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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Ukrainian scouts take part in a peace ceremony at Kyiv's main railway station.
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Contestants compete in a heat of the women's 200-meter backstroke competition at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest.
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A boy plays in front of riot police trucks outside the parliament building in the restive Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
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A steam train festooned with seasonal decorations moves along a railway in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
12
A child rides on a merry-go-round at Christmas fair in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
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Kyrgyz soldiers stand guard as people gather in front of an illuminated Christmas tree and other decorations on the central Ala-Too Square in Bishkek.
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A tiger is seen in scratches an itch in Kyiv's city zoo.
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An opposition supporter attends a protest in front of Georgia's parliament building in Tbilisi.
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Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, an Uzbek citizen suspected of involvement in the killing of General Igor Kirillov in Moscow, is escorted to a courtroom at the Basmanny District Court on December 19.
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A Ukrainian soldier of the Khyzhak Brigade launches a drone at a position in a front line near the town of Toretsk, Ukraine.
