Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the fifth week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #5

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People shout slogans as they carry torches during a march organized by Svoboda (Freedom), a Ukrainian nationalist party, in Kyiv to mark the 99th anniversary of a battle near the the small Ukrainian city of Kruty. Some 300 Ukrainian students, cadets, and schoolboys were killed during combat with the regular Red Army on January 29, 1918, to protect the newly created Ukrainian People's Republic against Bolshevik aggression. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is one of the two countries, along with neighboring Pakistan, where polio is still endemic, crippling hundreds of children every year. (epa/Ghulamullah Habibi)