Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the sixth week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 6
- By RFE/RL
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A woman walks along the shore of the partially frozen Baltic Sea in Zelenogradsk in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave. (Reuters/Vitaly Nevar)
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A boy rides his bike to school amid heavy smog in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A municipal worker clears snow as an honor guard soldier stands in his station at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow. The weekly temperature in Moscow is around minus 12 degrees Celsius during the day and drops to minus 18 degrees at night. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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The Dugzhuuba (Rite of Purification) is held at the Gunzechoinei Temple. The ceremony is held ahead of Sagaalgan (White Month), the Buddhist New Year's Day, widely celebrated in Russia's Republic of Buryatia, Transbaikal territory, and Ust-Orda Buryat autonomous area. (TASS/Andrei Chepakin)
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An Iranian woman takes a selfie as she rides on a motorcycle during the celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran on February 10. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters/Majid Asgaripour)
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A man warms up prior to swimming in an ice hole in the Neva River in St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Kosovar artist Arbnora Fejza Idrizi gives the finishing touches to her origami mosaic showing Kosovo's national flag in the town of Skenderaj on February 10. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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Bulgarian Orthodox faithful light candles during a holy Mass for the "sanctification of honey" at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad on February 10. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)
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An Afghan man and and a boy walk to sell colored balloons on a street in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Pakistani government workers pray on a street amid teargas fired by police as they march toward parliament during a protest to demand higher wages in Islamabad on February 10. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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A snowboarder rides in the street after 30 cenrtimeters of snow fell in Kyiv on February 9. (RFE/RL / Radio Svoboda)
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A man plays with roosters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
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People walk on ice of the Finnish Gulf in the fog in St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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A model presents a creation by designer Polina Veller during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv on February 7. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Journalists Katsyaryna Andreyeva (right) and Darya Chultsova embrace in the defendants' cage before the start of a trial in Minsk. The journalists from the Polish-funded Belsat TV channel were detained in November when they were reporting on anti-government protests. They face up to three years in prison on charges of organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order. (epa-EFE/Stringer)
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Coffins containing the remains of Russian and French soldiers who died during Napoleon's 1812 retreat are reflected in an Orthodox icon during a ceremony in a small church in the monastery of John the Precursor in the western Russian town of Viazma. The remains of 100 Russian and French soldiers, unearthed in Viazma, will be buried together on February 13. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Romanian children line up outside school while waiting to disinfect their hands and enter the building during the first day of school at Cezar Bolliac Secondary School in Bucharest on February 8. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)
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Local residents gather at the scene of a suicide car-bomb blast that targeted a police post on the outskirts of the Khogyani district of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province on February 7. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)
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Members of the Belarusian diaspora and Ukrainian activists hold up white and red flares during a rally in support of anti-government protesters on the international Day of Solidarity with Belarus in the center of Kyiv on February 7. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A supporter of the Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) movement waves an Albanian flag during an election rally in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, on February 7. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
