Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the second week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #2
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Horses walk in front of cars along a highway on a frosty winter day outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A man sells carpets on a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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A Syrian boy runs while carrying bread following a reported air strike by government forces in the Syrian town of Binnish, on the outskirts of Idlib. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
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A boy stands by a shelter set up in a hockey arena where mainly Afghan families live at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex in a southern suburb of Athens. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)
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An elderly Iraqi man comforts a wounded boy as he receives treatment from military doctors in Mosul during a military operation by Iraqi security forces against Islamic State militants. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Afghans attend a funeral ceremony for a victim of twin bombings that targeted the parliament building in Kabul. A double suicide attack killed at least 38 people. (epa/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Afghan youth collect metal and plastic from a landfill to sell for recycling on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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A fishing boat is stuck in the frozen Dojran Lake near the Greek border with Macedonia. (epa/Georgi Licovski)
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An Afghan bank official sorts old and soiled banknotes to be destroyed in Kandahar. (epa/Muhammad Sadiq)
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A Filipino child carries scrap metal from burned homes after a pre-dawn fire in Navotas City, north of Manila. (epa)
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Commemorating the victims of a Soviet crackdown on independence protesters in Lithuania on January 13, 1991, people place lit candles outside the Ministry of Education and Science in Vilnius. (epa)
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People walk past icicles hanging from the roof of a building in a street in central Kyiv on January 13 (Reuters/Gleb Garanich).
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Smoke can be seen coming from a chimney as heating plants in Belgrade operate at increased capacity due to icy weather. (epa/Koca Sulejmanovic)
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Wild ducks rest on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary (epa/Attila Balazs)
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Members of the Iraqi rapid-response forces fire a missile toward Islamic State militants during a battle in the Sumer district of eastern Mosul, Iraq, on January 11. (Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)
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Children walk past the icicles hanging from the roof of a residential house during a sunny day on outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir. (epa/Farooq Khan)
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A woman walks across the Charles Bridge at sunrise during a freezing winter morning in Prague on January 11. (epa/Martin Divisek)
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U.S. President Barack Obama embraces his wife Michelle Obama after his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois, on January 10. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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A monkey used for being photographed with tourists is wrapped up in a thick coat to protect it from the cold in central Kyiv on January 10.
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A man dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, plays accordion at an underground crossing in Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A woman sits by the walls of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress during freezing weather in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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A Syrian woman braves a snowstorm at a refugee camp north of Athens, Greece, on January 10. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
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A displaced Iraqi girl who fled violence in the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Mosul holds a balloon at the Khazer refugee camp near Irbil. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Adrien Van Beveren of France rides his Yamaha in Bolivia during the seventh stage of the Dakar rally. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes)
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A young vegetable vendor rests at the Khazer refugee camp for people who fled the violence in the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Mosul, Iraq. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)