Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 15th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
Iranians celebrated in Tehran after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a missile attack on Israel overnight on April 13-14.
While North Macedonia experiences an increase in tourists, there's a concerning trend of visitors spending fewer days in the country. Is the state's modest budget of 30,000 euros for the promotion of tourism contributing to the issue?
Hundreds of Russians have been handed yearslong prison terms under new censorship laws that assign severe penalties for discussing the invasion of Ukraine. Here are eight of the ordinary people who have had their lives upended by the new legislation.
Floodwaters continue to rise across Russia and Kazakhstan as major rivers burst their banks resulting in some of the worst flooding in decades.
Every week, memorial services are held in the heart of Kyiv for fallen Ukrainian soldiers. Two best friends -- who fought and died side by side in eastern Ukraine -- were honored a day before parliament passed a new mobilization law to boost the country's dwindling troop numbers.
Before-and-after satellite imagery reveals the floodwaters that have forced thousands of residents to evacuate from the Russian city of Orsk.
Worshippers are marking the conclusion of the monthlong dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan with a three-day celebration known as Eid al-Fitr.
Satellite imagery reveals the floodwaters that have forced thousands of residents to evacuate along multiple rivers and tributaries of the Ural River in the Orenburg region of Russia, near the Kazakh border.
Two years after Russian forces retreated from the Kyiv region, RFE/RL photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko revisited the same sites he photographed then to see what reconstruction efforts look like outside Ukraine's major cities.
Floodwaters continue to rise in the aftermath of a burst dam in the Russian city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains. Investigators have launched a criminal investigation into the dam's construction.
Restoration work has begun on a fourth-century fortress from Tbilisi's storied architectural and historic past.
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