Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 18th week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (May 1-7, 2023)
- By RFE/RL
![A freight train on the move at sunset in Kazakhstan's Almaty region. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-4c6f-08db4d6bc56a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A freight train on the move at sunset in Kazakhstan's Almaty region.
![People take pictures under cherry blossoms in a park in Kyiv. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-d14f-08db4d6bcc01_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People take pictures under cherry blossoms in a park in Kyiv.
![An Iranian carpenter cleans her eye while working at her workshop in Tehran. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-d1d3-08db4d74f419_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian carpenter cleans her eye while working at her workshop in Tehran.
![A drone is seen exploding over Kyiv amid Russian strikes on the city on May 4. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-975b-08db4d6bc565_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A drone is seen exploding over Kyiv amid Russian strikes on the city on May 4.
![Ukrainian soldiers train on top of a tank under the supervision of German and Danish instructors at a base in Klietz, Germany. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-0044-08db4d73e978_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian soldiers train on top of a tank under the supervision of German and Danish instructors at a base in Klietz, Germany.
![Messages are left for victims at a vigil following a school shooting in Belgrade on May 3. A teen-aged boy has been accused of killing eight fellow students and a security guard.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-da5f-08db4c634771_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Messages are left for victims at a vigil following a school shooting in Belgrade on May 3. A teen-aged boy has been accused of killing eight fellow students and a security guard.
![The body of a person killed by a Russian military strike is seen at a supermarket in Kherson on May 3. At least 23 people were killed in Russian strikes on a supermarket, a train station, residential buildings, a hardware store, and a gas station.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-c2c3-08db4bd323bc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The body of a person killed by a Russian military strike is seen at a supermarket in Kherson on May 3. At least 23 people were killed in Russian strikes on a supermarket, a train station, residential buildings, a hardware store, and a gas station.
![An Afghan vendor pushes his ice-cream cart as he looks for customers near Shuhada Lake in Kabul.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-4710-08db4bcbc0bb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan vendor pushes his ice-cream cart as he looks for customers near Shuhada Lake in Kabul.
![Sheep graze between the solar panels of a solar park in Rogane, Kosovo.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-d6b1-08db4bc467f6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sheep graze between the solar panels of a solar park in Rogane, Kosovo.
![Olena Archipenko, 62, reacts as she prepares bread to be distributed to her neighbors in Siversk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-ef51-08db4b9bdbb2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Olena Archipenko, 62, reacts as she prepares bread to be distributed to her neighbors in Siversk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
![A laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore, Pakistan.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-d37d-08db4a3d4c2d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore, Pakistan.
![Pope Francis waves next to Hungary's President Katalin Novak during a farewell ceremony at Budapest International Airport on April 30, after his second visit to Hungary in less than two years came to an end.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-528f-08db4a27090c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pope Francis waves next to Hungary's President Katalin Novak during a farewell ceremony at Budapest International Airport on April 30, after his second visit to Hungary in less than two years came to an end.
![A Pakistani miner works at a coal mine on May Day in Quetta.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-5956-08db4ad17bea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Pakistani miner works at a coal mine on May Day in Quetta.
![An installation made by visual artist Ion Barbu, representing a communist-era Dacia car painted in the colors of the Romanian flag and reading, "If we don't have a Dacia, we will make it from a Porsche," is seen on the site of the closed coal mine in Petrila, Romania.](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-6c76-08db4a5d2f8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An installation made by visual artist Ion Barbu, representing a communist-era Dacia car painted in the colors of the Romanian flag and reading, "If we don't have a Dacia, we will make it from a Porsche," is seen on the site of the closed coal mine in Petrila, Romania.
![Kosovar police officers walk away from flares thrown by protesters during a May Day rally in Pristina. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-6121-08db4a5dabd3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kosovar police officers walk away from flares thrown by protesters during a May Day rally in Pristina.
![Two men pose on a walkway decorated with caricatures of the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (left) and his wife, Elena Ceausescu, in Petrila, Romania. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-352c-08db4a5d2f8f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two men pose on a walkway decorated with caricatures of the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (left) and his wife, Elena Ceausescu, in Petrila, Romania.
![Kyrgyz Communist Party supporters hold red flags in front of a monument to Vladimir Lenin during a rally to mark the May Day holiday in Bishkek. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-93bc-08db4a5c54f4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kyrgyz Communist Party supporters hold red flags in front of a monument to Vladimir Lenin during a rally to mark the May Day holiday in Bishkek.
![Taliban security personnel destroy a poppy plantation in Afghanistan's Balkh Province. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-c881-08db4a5c54ec_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Taliban security personnel destroy a poppy plantation in Afghanistan's Balkh Province.