From bustling cities to war-torn countries, children across RFE/RL's regions are returning to the classroom for their first day of the new school year.
Back To School: A Glimpse Into The Lives Of Children Across RFE/RL's Region
Moldovan children in traditional dress wait to enter the Tara Shevchenko school in Chisinau.
Children across RFE/RL's region are welcoming the start of another year of learning.
Kyrgyz first-graders sit attentively as class begins in Bishkek. An estimated 150,000 children entered the first grade this year in Kyrgyzstan.
Ukrainian children -- many wearing the traditional "vyshyvanka" embroidered shirts -- celebrate their first day of school in Zaporizhzhya on September 1.
Children watch as people waving Russian flags welcome them to the start of the new school year at a lyceum in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Donetsk on September 2.
Students with green balloons wait patiently for the start of class in a school in the Armenian village of Jrap.
A little girl rubs her tired eyes during the first day at the lyceum named after Moldovan writer Gheorghe Asachi in Chisinau.
Children watch as traditional songs and dances are performed, welcoming them to the new school year in Bishkek.
Following the first day of school in Budapest, students and family members took part in a demonstration after the head of a leading public high school was dismissed for disagreeing with a new government policy about banning students from using mobile phones in schools.
Despite the Taliban's nationwide ban on teenage girls attending school past the sixth grade, some are resorting to private education while others, such as these students, attend an open-air school in Firozkoh in Afghanistan's Ghor Province.