Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the first week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #1
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People look at a burned vehicle at the site of car-bomb attack in a busy square at Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district on January 2. (Reuters/Ahmad Saad)
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A Pakistani vendor prepares peanuts for sale on a roadside in Peshawar. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)
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People hold flags picturing Ukrainian politician Stepan Bandera (left), the leader of Ukrainian nationalist resistance during World War II, and his ally Roman Shukhevych during a march in Kyiv on January 1. Bandera is hailed in western Ukraine as a freedom fighter. In eastern Ukraine, however, he is seen as a traitor to the Soviet Union who collaborated with the Nazis. (AFP/Genya Savilov)