Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 16th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 16
- By RFE/RL
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A woman argues with a police officer during a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Ulan-Ude, Russia. (AP/Anna Ogorodnik)
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Afghan men perform Friday Prayers inside a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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The body of a man who died from COVID-19 is prepared for burial at a cemetery just outside Tehran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Workers dismantle a bas-relief at the Monument to the War Glory of the Soviet Army following a decision by local authorities in Lviv on April 23. (Reuters/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
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An Iranian man wears a gas mask as he poses on a street in Tehran, after the government announced a red alert for coronavirus infections on April 22. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters/Majid Asgaripour)
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Supporters of jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny hold up phones with the lights on during a rally in Moscow on April 21. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Police officers stand prepared ahead of a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Khabarovsk, Russia. (AP/Igor Volkov)
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Russian cadets hide from the rain under an umbrella near a church in the town of Vladimir. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)
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A Ukrainian soldier on the front line near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. (AP/Roma Mostetskiy)
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Smoke from a fire at a dye storage can be seen over Chisinau on April 21. (epa-EFE/Dumitru Doru)
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Archpriest Ioann Kudryavtsev shows a disposable vial of consecrated oil during a lecture titled Pastoral Counseling Amid the Pandemic -- PPE Use And Spiritual Guidance Of COVID-19 Patients at St. Aleksii Hospital Metropolitan of Moscow Hospital on April 20. (TASS/Mikhail Tereshchenko)
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People receive free bread during the fasting month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 20. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)
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A boy runs during a dust storm at Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Migrant workers stand by the barbed-wire fence of the penal colony where jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny was reportedly transferred in the city of Vladimir on April 19. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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An Afghan man waits for customers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Riot police detain a counterprotester as demonstrators gather in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague on April 18 following accusations that Russian agents were behind a massive munitions explosion in 2014. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A Ukrainian soldier mans the front line near Horlivka in the Donetsk region. (RFE/RL /Marian Kushnir)
