RFE/RL looks back at the year 2011, from the Arab Spring to memorial services for Kim Jong Il and Vaclav Havel.
2011: The Year in Photos
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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza on September 11, 2001, pauses at his son's name at the 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center in New York on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. (Reuters)
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Members of a presidential fan club sing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to celebrate Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's 46th birthday on September 14. (ITAR-TASS/Maksim Shemetov)
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A Chornobyl veteran passes by police in front of the parliament in Kyiv on September 20. Some 1,000 people protested against a draft law that would cancel benefits for veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Chornobyl emergency workers, and others. (AP
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Afghans carry the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani during his funeral ceremony in Kabul on September 23. Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)
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Chinese exchange students in Cupertino, California, create a memorial to Apple co-founder and technology icon Steve Jobs, who died on October 5. (AFP)
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her daughter Yevhenia attend a session at a Kyiv district court on October 11. Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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A still from a mobile-phone video shows wounded Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as he was seized by rebel fighters in Sirte on October 20. He was shot dead soon after being captured. (AFP)
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Turkish rescue workers carry a baby from a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern city of Van, on October 25. The 14-day-old baby was rescued 46 hours after a devastating earthquake struck southeastern Turkey. (Reuters)
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An activist confronts police on October 25 during the Occupy Oakland protest, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate power that began in New York and spread to other U.S. cities throughout the fall. (AFP)
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A resident of the village of Arashan, near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, rides past a campaign poster for Almazbek Atambaev ahead of the October 30 election. Atambaev won the presidency with some 63 percent of the vote. (Reuters/Vladimir Pirogov)
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Demonstrators protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Homs on November 13. The UN estimates that some 5,000 people have been killed in the Syrian uprising this year. (Reuters)
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A man shows his ink-stained finger after voting in parliamentary elections in Cairo on November 28, the first ballot since President Hosni Mubarak was forced out of office in February. (Reuters)
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A Pakistani child stands alongside tribesmen on top of a NATO flag during a demonstration in Islamabad on November 29 against a NATO strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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An Iranian student tears a picture of Queen Elizabeth II, taken as hundreds of students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on November 29. The raid on the embassy erupted in response to new U.K. sanctions against Iran. (epa/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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Afghans run for shelter seconds after a suicide bombing struck a Shi'ite Muslim gathering in Kabul during the festival of Ashura on December 6. As many as 20 people died in the sectarian attack. (Reuters/Najibullah Musafer)
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An activist (front) from a pro-Kremlin youth movement attacks opposition activists during a protest on December 6 against the results of Russia's parliamentary elections. (Reuters/Anton Golubev)
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Trees are covered in spider webs in a flooded region of Pakistan's Sindh Province on December 7, apparently the result of spiders escaping the rising flood waters. (Reuters/Russell Watkins)
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Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets on December 10 to protest against Kremlin policies and alleged election fraud in the largest-ever display of opposition to the rule of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (Reuters/
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Opposition supporters hold a rally to protest against violations in the parliamentary elections and the policies of the current Russian authorities. (RFE/RL /Irina Chevtaeva)
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People light candles and hold the national flag in tribute to late former Czech President Vaclav Havel on Wenceslas Square in Prague on December 18. (Reuters)
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In honor of former Czech and Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel, who died on December 18, RFE/RL projected an image of his face on the front of its headquarters in Prague. (RFE/RL)
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The wife of late former Czech President Vaclav Havel, Dagmar (left), and her daughter Nina walk behind a hearse transporting Havel's body to Prague Castle on December 21. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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Members of the Korean People's Army cry for late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on December 21. (AFP)
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North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, salutes as he and his uncle Jang Song Thaek accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral procession in Pyongyang on December 28. (Reuters/Kyodo)