Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fourth week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week (January 23-29, 2023)
- By RFE/RL
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Graves of Russian Vagner mercenary group fighters are seen in a cemetery near the village of Bakinskaya in the Krasnodar region of Russia.
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An Afghan youth and his horse walk along Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul on January 26.
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Nikolai Romanov, a former monk known as Father Sergiy until he was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church, baptizes those present in the hall from behind a glass cage during his trial in Moscow. The monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and challenged the Kremlin, was handed a new prison sentence on Janujary 27 on charges of inciting hatred.
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An elderly couple walks along a mass grave containing the victims of the Nazi siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad, the city's Soviet-era name. Up to 700,000 civilians are believed to have died from hunger, cold, shelling, and air bombardment during the siege, which lasted some 900 days.
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A view through broken glass of a church in Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
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People gather in a subway station being used as a bomb shelter during Russian air strikes on Kyiv on January 26.
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An Afghan boy poses for a photograph outside a snow-covered amusement park in Kabul.
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A Ukrainian man cries after his wife was killed when a Russian rocket destroyed their house in Zaporizhzhya on the night of January 25-26.
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Iranians shop at a bazaar in Tehran's Tajrish neighborhood.
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Local residents receive humanitarian aid in the embattled town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
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Participants compete in Kyrgyzstan's Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Bishkek.
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Laborers keep themselves warm near a fire as they wait for work on a cold morning at the wholesale grain market in Karachi, Pakistan.
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The Berlinale film festival's artistic director wears this year's Berlinale pin in the national colors of Ukraine during the press conference of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Burqa-clad women walk past a sick woman along a road in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.
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Supporters of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League party burn a Swedish flag during a demonstration against the burning of the Koran by a Danish anti-Islam activist, in Peshawar on January 24.
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Three boys attend an online class in a makeshift classroom they built using wooden poles and plastic sheeting on the only hill that catches mobile Internet in the village of Hontarivka, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.
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Oleg Navalny, the brother of imprisoned Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny, poses inside a replica of Navalny's cell built by supporters and activists opposite the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
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Children stand next to a crater left by a Russian missile strike in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv, on January 26.
