Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 7
- By RFE/RL
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A girl looks at symbolic paper angels paying tribute to the "Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred," referring to those killed during anti-government demonstrations in early 2014, during a memorial event near Kyiv's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, on February 18.
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Pakistani craftsmen build a boat at the shipyard in the southern port city of Karachi.
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A woman walks by as observers survey a crater and damage to a house from an artillery shell that landed in the front-line town of Vrubivka in eastern Ukraine on February 17.
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A vendor sells dried fish at her street stall in Odesa, Ukraine.
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Family members hold pictures of their missing relatives during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 16. Pakistani human rights activists claim many have been picked up by state agencies, primarily under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
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The building of Ukraine's cabinet of ministers is illuminated with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on a national Day of Unity in Kyiv on February 16.
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Montenegrin politician Aleksa Becic speaks to demonstrators at a protest rally over the potential formation of a minority government in Podgorica on February 16.
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A Polish border guard stands on duty at the construction site for a fence on Poland's border with Belarus near the town of Tolcze.
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A Pakistani carpenter sands a panel-carving at a workshop in Peshawar.
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Kyrgyz servicemen take part in planned exercises at the Ala-Too training ground, 25 kilometers from Bishkek.
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A vessel of the Russian Navy is seen through a flock of birds in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea.
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Ukrainian servicemen talk at a frontline position outside Popasna in the eastern Luhansk region, where they battle Russia-backed separatists amid a massive Russian military buildup near the Ukrainian border.
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Priests read prayers in honor of St. Haralampus as believers gather around candles stuck to jars of honey arranged in a cross during a mass for the "sanctification of honey" at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad, south of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marked the day of St. Haralampus, the Orthodox patron saint of beekeepers, by performing a ritual for health and a rich harvest.
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Veterans pray during a memorial service for soldiers killed in Afghanistan, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on February 15.
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Jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny (second from left) and his wife Yulia Navalnaya are seen on a monitor screen during a court hearing in a penal colony in Russia's Vladimir region on February 15.
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People walk next to a Russian Christmas Market set up on Red Square in Moscow on February 14.
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A Taliban fighter directs traffic as a street vendor sells red heart-shaped balloons for Valentine's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Ukrainian servicemen take part in combat training in the Chernihiv region.
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A protester supporting Russian anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny is detained in the northern city of Arkhangelsk.
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A woman holds a sign that says 'The Ukrainian nation is invincible" during a March of Unity in Kyiv against the threat of a new military invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
