2014: The Year In Photos

Demonstrators supporting Ukraine's integration with Europe celebrate the New Year on Kyiv's Independence Square, or Maidan, on January 1. The mass "Euromaidan" demonstrations that began in November led to the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych three months later. (Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters)

Thick ice lines the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, during sub-zero temperatures on January 6. (Scott Olson, Getty Images)

A man carries a child as they flee an apparent air strike by government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on January 21. (Ammar Abdullah, Reuters)

A man escapes from a blaze at a government building in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on February 7. Protesters set fire to the building and clashed with riot police during several days of unrest over high unemployment and political inertia. (Dado Ruvic, Reuters)

Former Taliban fighters, including two women, stand handcuffed near seized weapons at a police headquarters after a military operation in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province on February 4, 2014. (Abdul Mueed, epa)

One of the five illuminated Olympic rings fails to open during the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, on February 7. (Phil Noble, Reuters)

A Cossack militiaman attacks Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and other members of the punk protest group Pussy Riot as they performed on a street in Sochi, Russia, on February 19. (Morry Gash, AP)

A scarecrow-like figure stands on a barricade in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 21. As protesters and government forces fought fierce street battles in the capital, President Viktor Yanukovich fled Kyiv and the parliament voted to strip him of his powers. (Bulent Kilic, AFP)

Russians Aleksandr Emereev (left) and Dmitry Zaytsev smile after getting married in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 25. Same-sex couples are not able to marry in Russia, and gay Russians have faced growing levels of repression and violence. (Daniel Garcia, AFP)

Participants enter the ballroom during the opening ceremony of the Vienna Opera Ball on February 27. (Herbert Neubauer, epa)

Kyrgyz horsemen play the traditional Central Asian sport of Kok-Boru (goat pull) during Norouz celebrations in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 17. (Igor Kovalenko, epa)

A car flies a Russian flag near the Crimean port city of Feodosia on March 24, shortly after Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula. (Shamil Zhumatov, Reuters)

The remains of decommissioned submarines float at a nuclear waste disposal plant in the town of Fokino in Russia's far-eastern Primorsky region on March 28. (Yuri Maltsev, Reuters)

Afghan women wait to vote at a polling station in Mazar-i-Sharif on April 5. The presidential election, marking the first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban regime, led to a run-off vote that brought Ashraf Ghani to power. (Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)

Hungarian women vote in Veresegyhaza, near Budapest, in parliamentary elections on April 6 that gave Prime Minister Viktor Orban another four years in office. (Laszlo Balogh, Reuters)

Armenian demonstrators in Yerevan set fire to a Turkish flag during a march marking the anniversary of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire on April 23. (Hayk Baghdasaryan, Photolure)

Iraqi women flash the sign for victory with ink-stained fingers after voting in Iraq's parliamentary elections in Baghdad on April 30. (Sabah Arar, AFP)

Transvestite singer Conchita Wurst speaks to the press in Vienna on May 11, one day after winning the Eurovision Song Contest as Austria's contestant. (Georg Hochmuth, AFP)

A man kisses his son who was rescued after an explosion caused a coal mine to collapse in the western Turkish city of Manisa on May 13. Scores of miners were killed in the disaster. (Bulent Kilic, AFP)

A fireworks show marks the opening of a new mosque in Argun, Chechnya on May 16. The Haja Aymani Kadyrova Mosque is named in honor of the mother of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. (RFE/RL's Radio Marsho)

A front loader helps evacuees escape from their flooded houses in Topcic Polje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the region's worst floods in more than a century. (Dado Ruvi, Reuters)

Fred Glover, formerly of the British 9th Parachute Regiment, watches a parachute drop at Ranville in Normandy, France, on June 5, during 70th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. (Andy Rain, epa)

Planes stand near a damaged section of Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 10, after an attack by Taliban militants left at least 27 people dead. (Athar Hussain, Reuters)

A boy dives into a crater filled with water in the al-Shaar district of Aleppo, Syria, on July 10. Activists said the pit was the result of bombing by government forces. (Hosam Katan, Reuters)

Mourners visit a cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the anniversary of the July 11, 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb troops. (Midhat Poturovic, RFE/RL)

A man walks through the wreckage of a Malaysian airliner brought down near the town of Shaktarsk in rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board the flight were killed in the disaster. (Alexander Khudoteply, AFP)

Muslims pray during Ramadan at the Meshedi Dadash mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 21. (Abbas Atilay, RFE/RL)

Buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli attacks are seen in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City during a temporary cease-fire on July 26. (Oliver Weiken, epa)

An Orthodox priest throws a tire during clashes between activists and militiamen on Kyiv's Independence Square on August 7. (Sergei Supinsky, AFP)

A diver jumps from a 22-meter-high bridge during a competition in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, on August 11. (Armend Nimani, AFP)

Displaced Iraqis from the minority Yazidi sect walk toward the Syrian border as they flee attacks by the Islamic State militant group on August 11. (Rodi Said, Reuters)

Visitors run away as waves caused by a tidal bore surge over the banks of the Qiantang River in China's Zhejiang Province on August 13. (Reuters)

U.S. National Guard officers keep watch from a hill in Ferguson, Missouri, as demonstrators protest on August 21 against the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man. Violent protests erupted in the wake of Brown's death in August and again in November, when the police officer responsible was acquitted. (Larry W. Smith, epa)

Dust, glass, and damaged household items litter a kitchen in Donetsk, Ukraine, on August 26 during fighting between government forces and separatist rebels. (Sergei Ilnitsky, epa)

People dance and throw straw during a traditional Belarusian festival in the village of Ozerco, near Minsk, on September 7. (Uladz Hrydzin, AFP)

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of a Russian Soyuz space capsule shortly after landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on September 11, following a six-month stay at the International Space Station. (Maxim Shipenkov, Reuters)

People walk past a vehicle almost entirely submerged in mud after heavy flooding in the village of Tekija, Serbia, on September 17. (Djordje Kojadinovic, Reuters)

Women in folk costumes dance near empty shopping carts during a local food fair in Stavropol, Russia, on September 21, 2014. In August, Russia imposed bans on many foreign food products in response to Western sanctions over Moscow's involvement in Ukraine. (Eduard Korniyenko, Reuters)

A woman plays with her daughter at a winter sports resort near the village of Gudauri, north of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on September 24. (Kirill Kudryavtsev, AFP)

A sign warns of the danger of Ebola in West Point, a slum area of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, on September 25. The area was among the worst affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (Ahmad Jallanzo, epa)

A multiple exposure shows Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Khilko competing in the women's gymnastics trampoline event at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on September 26. (Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters)

People in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar gesture as air strikes hit Kobani, across the border with Syria, on October 22. Kurdish pershmerga fighters were battling Islamic State militants for control of the town. (Bulent Kilic, AFP)

A girl takes a picture with a tablet while visiting a beach in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 28. (Akhtar Soomro, Reuters)

Protesters in Hong Kong open their umbrellas, symbols of the prodemocracy movement, as they mark one month since the beginning of mass demonstrations demanding reform. (Damir Sagolj, Reuters)

A pro-Russian militant stands guard at a polling station during early voting in the eastern Ukrainian village of Volodorsk on October 29. The rebel-controlled Donbas region held parliamentary elections on November 2 that were not recognized in Kyiv or abroad. (Stanislav Krasilnikov, TASS)

Afghan children study in open-air classrooms on the outskirts of Jalalabad on November 5. (Parwiz, Reuters)

A young girl places a rose at the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse during a ceremony on November 9 marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall. (Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters)

Leaders of the G20 countries watch a performance at the opening of a summit in Brisbane, Australia, on November 15. (Jason Reed, Reuters)

Demonstrators hold up red cards to show their opposition to Czech President Milos Zeman at a protest in Prague on November 17, the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to communist rule. Zeman's opponents warn that the president is reviving warm relations with Russia and turning his back on human rights issues in Russia, China, and elsewhere. (David W. Cerny, Reuters)

Dead buffalo lie on the ground during a sacrificial ceremony of the Gadhimai Mela Festival in Bariyapur, Nepal, on November 28. The Hindu festival, which takes place once every five years, involves the largest ritual animal slaughter in the world. (Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters)

Firefighters work at a market set alight during a terrorist attack in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on December 4. At least 14 policemen and security force members and 10 militants were killed in gun battles during the attack. (Kazbek Vakhayev, epa)

Pigeons fly past a woman begging in the snow in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 7. (Shamil Zhumatov, Reuters)

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai poses with friends and fellow activists in Oslo on December 9, shortly before receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala, who was shot by Taliban gunmen for her work, shares the prize with Indian children's rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. (Odd Andersen, AFP)

Indian schoolchildren hold candles in the northern city of Amritsar on December 17 as they pray for the victims of a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. At least 141 people, mainly students, died in the attack.