Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week No. 7
Updated
- By RFE/RL
![Members of the Kosovo Security Forces band attend a ceremony to mark the 13th anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence, in Pristina on February 17. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b1a5eec2-868e-4ab5-ba22-02b4264caea8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the Kosovo Security Forces band attend a ceremony to mark the 13th anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence, in Pristina on February 17. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
![A migrant walks covered in a blanket during a visit by European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson at the Lipa camp outside Bihac, Bosnia. Migrants have suffered from cold and hunger during the winter after they were sent back after crossing into Italy from Slovenia, which then sends them packing to Croatia, which then pushes them back into Bosnia, after their failed attempts to cross into the European Union. (AP/Kemal Softic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ede90ade-566e-4c35-84e5-5214d987d223_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A migrant walks covered in a blanket during a visit by European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson at the Lipa camp outside Bihac, Bosnia. Migrants have suffered from cold and hunger during the winter after they were sent back after crossing into Italy from Slovenia, which then sends them packing to Croatia, which then pushes them back into Bosnia, after their failed attempts to cross into the European Union. (AP/Kemal Softic)
![A Ukrainian service member plays music on the contact line with Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. (Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9b30eb64-c097-4ba0-953c-c97943218662_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian service member plays music on the contact line with Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. (Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko)
![A woman walks on a street in Moscow, where temperatures have dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0c378a16-2789-480b-bbad-dedc7f519540_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks on a street in Moscow, where temperatures have dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
![Serbian Orthodox priests attend a liturgical ceremony in Belgrade's Congregational Church on February 19. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e50d302b-3086-428d-ac40-5bb25a664e76_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serbian Orthodox priests attend a liturgical ceremony in Belgrade's Congregational Church on February 19. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
![People feed swans on the bank of a water reservoir of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant near the town of Ostroh in Ukraine on February 18. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9bf7d501-915e-4e1c-a655-d525ae91b04a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People feed swans on the bank of a water reservoir of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant near the town of Ostroh in Ukraine on February 18. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
![Young visitors look at a diver dressed up as a mermaid as they walk through an observation tunnel in an aquarium at the Yekaterinburg Oceanarium in Russia. (TASS/Donat Sorokin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f7a22274-ee34-4b9d-84b3-3fcefce1fac2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Young visitors look at a diver dressed up as a mermaid as they walk through an observation tunnel in an aquarium at the Yekaterinburg Oceanarium in Russia. (TASS/Donat Sorokin)
![Woman attend yoga in a park while heavy fog envelopes Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bf845fe6-19d4-48c0-b761-92842d5a7d1e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Woman attend yoga in a park while heavy fog envelopes Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
![Women walk past banks of snow on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in central Moscow. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b1f8513c-3abe-4860-9937-175645548df6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women walk past banks of snow on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in central Moscow. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
![A woman walks along a forest path during a snowfall near the village of Lyubuchany outside of Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0f4a501e-0a66-489f-a7d6-70f488deec8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks along a forest path during a snowfall near the village of Lyubuchany outside of Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
![Two members of the Cold Water Tribe group chat while taking a dip in the icy waters of a frozen lake in Veresegyhaz, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Peter Lakatos)](https://gdb.rferl.org/1077eb02-c592-4466-8e9e-bc8b7956c762_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two members of the Cold Water Tribe group chat while taking a dip in the icy waters of a frozen lake in Veresegyhaz, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Peter Lakatos)
![An audience of people from Iran's East Azerbaijan Province attend a speech by video conference by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AFP/Khamenei.ir)](https://gdb.rferl.org/208f1f97-614b-47cc-a30c-35bda1064e9a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An audience of people from Iran's East Azerbaijan Province attend a speech by video conference by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AFP/Khamenei.ir)
![A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital where it was taken for examination in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. A pack of stray dogs with blue fur was found earlier this month near an abandoned chemical plant in the city of Dzerzhinsk. (Reuters/Anastasia Makarycheva)](https://gdb.rferl.org/46d6accd-9e2b-4763-8955-682c6a04076c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital where it was taken for examination in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. A pack of stray dogs with blue fur was found earlier this month near an abandoned chemical plant in the city of Dzerzhinsk. (Reuters/Anastasia Makarycheva)
![People fish on the frozen Dnipro River in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7b4c7e31-11aa-4b91-a73a-0c97a1b66596_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People fish on the frozen Dnipro River in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
![Steam rises from a heating plant behind a monument to Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin in Moscow. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/584bad33-b856-4922-84b4-370f6e6f0868_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Steam rises from a heating plant behind a monument to Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin in Moscow. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
![Girls dance on a pedestrian bridge on a rainy day in Tbilisi. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)](https://gdb.rferl.org/085493c5-4ee6-4aa9-9ead-954521959b35_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Girls dance on a pedestrian bridge on a rainy day in Tbilisi. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
![A carrier rocket with the Russian Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft aboard blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 15. (Reuters/Roskosmos)](https://gdb.rferl.org/aa536b03-6121-4fc9-b871-75ad0b2072b1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A carrier rocket with the Russian Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft aboard blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 15. (Reuters/Roskosmos)
![Laborers load pieces of used tires to recycle in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fc534d89-75ed-4b6e-bffe-a90712682588_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Laborers load pieces of used tires to recycle in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
![A woman carries a heart-shaped balloon while sitting with her husband on a motorbike in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 14. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d3632535-2709-45ee-82f2-573a6f553ff5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman carries a heart-shaped balloon while sitting with her husband on a motorbike in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 14. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
![Russian women holding roses and signs form a human chain using Valentine's Day to express support for the wife of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and political prisoners, in St. Petersburg on February 14. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0e4f9b88-96d5-41f2-9868-d91c8bc1b892_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian women holding roses and signs form a human chain using Valentine's Day to express support for the wife of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and political prisoners, in St. Petersburg on February 14. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
![Supporters of Kosovo's Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) movement celebrate their victory in parliamentary elections in Pristina on February 14. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/089401e7-679e-4b38-82c3-6c8b58fc9ae0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Supporters of Kosovo's Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) movement celebrate their victory in parliamentary elections in Pristina on February 14. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
![A feminist activist takes part in a flash mob with photographs of women imprisoned since the Belarusian presidential election on August 9, 2020, as they protest against police violence in Minsk on February 14. (AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bcdad844-0f58-41bf-a0be-bf6c321fbf72_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A feminist activist takes part in a flash mob with photographs of women imprisoned since the Belarusian presidential election on August 9, 2020, as they protest against police violence in Minsk on February 14. (AFP)
![Women sumo wrestlers compete at the 2021 Russian Sumo Championship at the Ak Bars Palace of Martial Arts in Kazan on February 14. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/12850d42-8ccb-41b7-b23a-7901fc726ac8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women sumo wrestlers compete at the 2021 Russian Sumo Championship at the Ak Bars Palace of Martial Arts in Kazan on February 14. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)
![People "draw" hearts with their cell-phone flashlights as part of a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Moscow on February 14. (AP/PavelGolovkin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d80565ac-8463-42e9-9024-ad28f0ebc1d1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People "draw" hearts with their cell-phone flashlights as part of a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Moscow on February 14. (AP/PavelGolovkin)