Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 25th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 25
- By RFE/RL
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Birds come to rest at a special-purpose section of a graveyard for victims of COVID-19 on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 25.
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St. Petersburg's landmark weather vane, fixed atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, is silhouetted against the sun.
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A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination unit set up at a former TikTok studio in the MEGA Park mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Men at a landfill in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.
![A thick fog shrouds a cable-stayed bridge across the Zolotoy Rog [Golden Horn] Bay in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/7a3bdf6e-38d8-4a83-af08-4a0d46372ff1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A thick fog shrouds a cable-stayed bridge across the Zolotoy Rog [Golden Horn] Bay in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
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A youth rides a horse on Clifton beach in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan.
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People carry candles past a patriotic monument illuminated in red during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), Russia.
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Afghan militiamen join their country's defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul in a show of solidarity against the Taliban.
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A woman sits by the shore next to the fence of a temporary hospital for patients infected with the COVID-19 in St. Petersburg.
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A man cools himself at a water fountain in Moscow.
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Villagers walk around a bonfire celebrating the summer solstice in Okunevo, some 200 kilometers northeast of Omsk in Siberia.
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Ears of wheat at sunset in a field in Kazakhstan's Almaty region.
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A Russian ship at the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg.
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A man stands next to a car damaged by flooding after heavy rainfall in Yalta, Ukraine.
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A person celebrates the summer solstice at the Kokino megalithic observatory near the city of Kumanovo in North Macedonia on June 21.
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Couples dance the samba as smoke rises from a burning pyrotechnics warehouse in Moscow.
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Women take part in a yoga session in Lahore, Pakistan.
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A supporter of Ebrahim Raisi displays his portrait during a rally in Tehran to celebrate his Iranian presidential election victory.
