Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 19th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 19
- By RFE/RL
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The European Aquatics Championships in Budapest (epa-EFE/Tamas Kovacs)
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An Afghan woman cries inside a car near a mosque that was hit by a deadly bomb explosion in the Shakar Dara district of Kabul on May 14. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A Bosnian Muslim visits a cemetery in Sarajevo for Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
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A man waits for children to ride his ponies at a park in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Russian Muslims attend a morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque on May 13. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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A ballerina performs at Romania's National Opera in Bucharest on May 12. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
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Afghan children look over Kabul as they stand near the grave of a girl who lost her life in the recent attack on a school. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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A Romanian soldier takes part in military exercises 260 kilometers north-east of Bucharest on May 11. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)
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A woman cries as she is taken to an ambulance at the scene of a fatal school shooting in Kazan, the capital of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, on May 11 (AFP/Roman Kruchinin)
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Vasiliki Alexandri of Austria performs at the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on May 10. (efe-EPA/Tamas Kovacs)
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A woman sells face masks by a Karachi roadside as the Pakistani government makes face masks mandatory in public places amid a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic on May 10. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
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Boys play in Victory Park during the Victory Day celebrations in Yerevan on May 9. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)
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Muslims pray on the 27th day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan amid a third wave of COVID-19 in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 9. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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Russian cadets march during a Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg on May 9. (AP Photo/Dmitri Love)
