Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 22nd week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (May 29-June 4, 2023)
- By RFE/RL
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A Pakistani vendor arranges dates on his cart at a market in Rawalpindi.
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Romanian teachers are reflected into the waters of the Dabovita River as they march for better pay and conditions in Bucharest.
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An Afghan man buys bread in downtown Herat.
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Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in action during her first-round match against the Czech Republic's Brenda Fruhvirtova at the French Open in Paris.
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Britain's King Charles III (left) speaks to Romanian President Klaus Iohannis during a welcoming ceremony for the U.K. monarch on his visit to the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest.
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A dog holds a sign during a demonstration in Budapest calling for better pay and conditions for Hungary's teachers.
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Girls walk past an EU flag installation in a park in Chisinau ahead of a summit of European leaders in the Moldovan capital.
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A relative sits next to the covered body of a 9-year-Ukrainian old girl, who was killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv.
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A man works in a brick factory in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A damaged doll lies among debris at the site where a Russian drone strike hit a private building in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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A monument to a Soviet soldier is vandalized with red paint in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Soldiers of the NATO-led international peacekeeping Kosovo Force scuffle with ethnic Serbs in front of the municipal building in Zvecan, Kosovo.
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People take cover in a subway station during a Russian rocket attack on Kyiv.
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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul.
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Security forces from the NATO-led international KFOR peacekeeping force prepare their gear in front of a municipal building in the restive Zvecan municipality in northern Kosovo.
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A Russian missile explodes after being intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses over Kyiv.
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A man carrying his son removes stones from a road in Kabul so that bicycles and cars can travel better.
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An Afghan boy rides his bicycle through rainwater along a road in the Tangi Valley of the Saydabad district in Maidan Wardak Province.
