Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the sixth week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #6
- By RFE/RL
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Afghan laborers work on two flood protection canals, marking the first largest project in Kandahar since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Beside providing opportunities to 1,000 people, the two canals -- 1,300 meters and 950 meters in length -- will serve to protect several residential areas and villages from seasonal floods in a district of the provincial capital, Kandahar city.
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A girl carries bread on her head as she walks in the snow in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A medic holds a baby's hand at a children's hospital treating suspected COVID-19 patients in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on February 10.
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The weapons of newly recruited Taliban fighters are kept along a wall during a graduation ceremony at a training center in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A delivery man wearing a protective face mask cycles on a street on February 9 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow. According to the national coronavirus information center, over the previous 24 hours a record number of 183,103 cases of the coronavirus were detected in Russia.
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People gather for a rally demanding the closure of the independent news and investigative outlets Kaktus.media, Kloop, and RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service in Bishkek on February 9. The protesters want the outlets to be declared "foreign agents," saying they destabilize the lives of the Kyrgyz people.
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Shaoang Liu of Hungary is seen in action during a men's speed-skating event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Anastasia Gubanova of Georgia performs in the women's single skating short program at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Two men look at Moscow buildings through a telescope at the Vorobyovy Gory observation deck in the Russian capital.
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Dzmitry Lazouski of Belarus in action at the shooting range during a men's 20-kilometer biathlon race at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Dogs congregate in an enclosure at the Hachiko animal shelter in Grozny, Chechnya.
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Smog hangs over a Ferris wheel on Mikhailovskaya Embankment in the Russian city of Novosibirsk.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) hosts a meeting in Moscow with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 7 to discuss ways to de-escalate the crisis caused by the Kremlin massing more than 100,00 troops and hardware near the Ukrainian border. The extraordinarily long table and the distance between the two presidents spawned a multitude of memes in Russia.
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A resident in the front-line village of Novooleksandrivka in eastern Ukraine looks out of the window of her home on February 7.
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A model has her make-up prepared for a show at the Central European Fashion Week in Budapest.
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Rumia, a 59-year-old Ukrainian woman from Kyiv, uses a wooden rifle during training in how to handle a firearm amid fears of a Russian invasion. Rumia is a Crimean Tatar and a native of the Crimean Peninsula, which was forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014.
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Anastasiia Shabotova of Ukraine competes in a women's figure-skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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A man arranges traditional naan breads to sell from a stall in Peshawar, Pakistan.
