Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 17
- By RFE/RL
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Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter in Kyiv on May 2. (RFE/RL /Serhii Nuzhnenko)
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Ukrainian border guards patrol the Sea of Azov off the city of Mariupol on April 30. (AFP/Aleksey Filippov)
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A Pakistani potter carries clay pots at a workshop in Karachi. (AP/Fareed Khan)
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Russian servicemen take part in a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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A Kyrgyz emergency worker unloads mattresses for people evacuated after violent clashes along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. (AFP)
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A man rides a bicycle on a sunny morning in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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Soldiers from Romania's Presidential Honor Guard pay their respects in front of the World War II Heroes Memorial in Bucharest during a Veterans Day ceremony on April 29. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)
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Afghan boys peek out inside a madrasah during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic in Kandahar. (epa-EFE/M. Sadiq)
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A visitor receives a dose of the QazVac vaccine against COVID-19 in a vaccination center located at a shopping and entertainment mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan started using its own domestically developed vaccine for mass inoculation. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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The moon rises over a replica of the Statue of Liberty in the Kosovar capital, Pristina. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
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A municipal worker paints over a mural of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 28. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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A Ukrainian serviceman rests in a dugout on the front line near Mariupol in eastern Ukraine. (AFP/Aleksei Filippov)
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An elderly Kosovar man mourns his only son during a ceremony on April 27 to mark the Day of Missing Persons, which commemorates those lost in the 1998-99 conflict with Serbian forces. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)
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A vendor arranges traditional vermicelli noodles at a factory in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
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Women wearing black clothing and face masks with the radioactivity sign march under umbrellas in Minsk on April 26 to commemorate victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the 35th anniversary of the tragedy. (AFP)
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A young woman poses for a selfie on Red Square in Moscow, which is being prepared for a Victory Day Parade. Russia will celebrate 76 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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The so-called "super pink moon" rises behind a stork in a nest in the village of Rzanicino near Skopje, North Macedonia, on April 26. A super full moon is so named because it is at its closest to Earth and thus appears bigger than a normal full moon. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
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A full moon shines behind the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Kremlin in Moscow. (TASS/Marina Lystseva)
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A man pays his respects near a radioactivity sign made out of candles at a monument to victims of the Chernobyl disaster in Slavutych, the Ukrainian city where the power station's personnel lived, some 50 kilometers from the accident site. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A visitor takes a tour of a nuclear defense bunker, 43 meters below Moscow. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Russian Orthodox believers are sprayed with holy water during a service marking the feast of Palm Sunday amid the coronavirus pandemic in Rostov-on-Don on April 25. (Reuters/Sergey Pivovarov)
