Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the tenth week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 10
- By RFE/RL
![Artists perform near a Soviet-era monument during a celebration of Maslenitsa, also known as Pancake Week, which is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter, in Yevpatoria, Crimea, on March 14. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8897f1da-7aa1-4800-a93b-b7b310e8b822_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Artists perform near a Soviet-era monument during a celebration of Maslenitsa, also known as Pancake Week, which is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter, in Yevpatoria, Crimea, on March 14. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)
![Women march down the street under umbrellas in the colors of the former white-red-white flag of Belarus to protest against the presidential election results in Minsk on March 11. (AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/41044578-a32e-409d-bed1-d3183973e532_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women march down the street under umbrellas in the colors of the former white-red-white flag of Belarus to protest against the presidential election results in Minsk on March 11. (AFP)
![A woman in Bucharest wears a red veil during a flash mob to raise awareness about increasing domestic violence toward women since the coronavirus pandemic has begun. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fa8c6159-4e34-4923-89a5-41ac4e8785b6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman in Bucharest wears a red veil during a flash mob to raise awareness about increasing domestic violence toward women since the coronavirus pandemic has begun. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
![A woman walks her dog during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/16d27c53-a0a5-41df-881a-036dff0eb381_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks her dog during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)
![An Iranian artist repairs a statue of a famous Iranian painter, Kamal-ol-molk, at a park in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f9166a20-48ad-4fb1-b79a-ac3ade814cab_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian artist repairs a statue of a famous Iranian painter, Kamal-ol-molk, at a park in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
![Steam rises from the chimneys of a thermal power plant in Sofia. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/b7500334-22e6-4d25-b13d-9ea873161b03_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Steam rises from the chimneys of a thermal power plant in Sofia. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)
![Students celebrate Maslenitsa, a holiday marking the end of winter, in central Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/685b66ce-0f36-4885-ae43-9200079c87a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Students celebrate Maslenitsa, a holiday marking the end of winter, in central Moscow. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)
![A man rides a bike across the frozen Finnish Gulf outside St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/14a6948e-28af-427d-b468-171718710a1c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man rides a bike across the frozen Finnish Gulf outside St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
![A Russian man on a Moscow street walks past a colorized version of an iconic photo showing the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag at the end of World War II. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8ff50d94-7708-4ee2-959d-6b1c4def4565_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Russian man on a Moscow street walks past a colorized version of an iconic photo showing the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag at the end of World War II. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
![Smoke rises from the erupting Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (TASS/Boris Smirnoff)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a60583c8-fb5c-4fc4-858c-9f9f7b895cdb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Smoke rises from the erupting Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (TASS/Boris Smirnoff)
![People watch a three-dimensional projection of the 56 meter-high Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province on March 9. (AFP/Wakil kKohsar)](https://gdb.rferl.org/26bf3907-a985-4fbe-ad22-eeec99efd967_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People watch a three-dimensional projection of the 56 meter-high Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province on March 9. (AFP/Wakil kKohsar)
![Activists burn smoke grenades as they protest against corrupt courts and judges in Kyiv on March 9. (epa-EFE/Serhiy Dolzhenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/448b4a33-fcf9-42f1-a43f-20b1d2cf5f67_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Activists burn smoke grenades as they protest against corrupt courts and judges in Kyiv on March 9. (epa-EFE/Serhiy Dolzhenko)
![Tourists walk in front of several Orthodox churches in the historical center of the town of Rostov Velikiy in Russia's Yaroslavl region. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4b0e8dc2-8e27-4acd-aabf-00b967288ba2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Tourists walk in front of several Orthodox churches in the historical center of the town of Rostov Velikiy in Russia's Yaroslavl region. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
![Russian feminists dance at an event to mark International Women's Day in St. Petersburg on March 8. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/52920b64-ee99-4ab4-bbcf-a8457bae536c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian feminists dance at an event to mark International Women's Day in St. Petersburg on March 8. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
![Kosovar Albanians in traditional dress and military costumes hold torches during events to mark the 23rd anniversary of the death of Adem Jashari, a Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) commander, in the village of Prekaz on March 7. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0c22b883-c9fa-4bea-9e7d-801ec4a871ec_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kosovar Albanians in traditional dress and military costumes hold torches during events to mark the 23rd anniversary of the death of Adem Jashari, a Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) commander, in the village of Prekaz on March 7. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhema)
![An aerial view shows a hockey rink after a match on the ice of Lake Baikal, which was organized to draw attention to environmental issues in Russia's Irkutsk region. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0ce405c1-8227-4831-a701-c3b5242ed4df_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An aerial view shows a hockey rink after a match on the ice of Lake Baikal, which was organized to draw attention to environmental issues in Russia's Irkutsk region. (Reuters/Maksim Shemetov)