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2025: The Year In Photos

Images captured by photographers and RFE/RL journalists highlight the biggest news stories and most captivating moments from across our regions over the past year.

A bird flies away from the rocket plume of the Soyuz MA-27 rocket as the spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 8.Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters.
26 A bird flies away from the rocket plume of the Soyuz MA-27 rocket as the spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 8.

Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters.
Armenian and Azerbaijani military positions, situated around 25 meters from each other, seen on May 13 above the southern Armenian village of Khnatsakh.Photo by Hayk Baghdasaryan/Photolure
27 Armenian and Azerbaijani military positions, situated around 25 meters from each other, seen on May 13 above the southern Armenian village of Khnatsakh.

Photo by Hayk Baghdasaryan/Photolure
A married couple embrace outside the ruins of their apartment in Kyiv on June 17 following a Russian strike. The body of their young son was later discovered in the rubble. Photo by Serhiy Nuzhnenko/RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
28 A married couple embrace outside the ruins of their apartment in Kyiv on June 17 following a Russian strike. The body of their young son was later discovered in the rubble.

Photo by Serhiy Nuzhnenko/RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.

Relatives of Turkish army officer Umit Unce grieve during his funeral in Ankara. Unce was one of 20 killed when a military aircraft crashed into Georgian territory minutes after taking off from Azerbaijan on November 11. Investigations into the crash are ongoing.Photo by Efekan Akyuz/Reuters.
29 Relatives of Turkish army officer Umit Unce grieve during his funeral in Ankara. Unce was one of 20 killed when a military aircraft crashed into Georgian territory minutes after taking off from Azerbaijan on November 11. Investigations into the crash are ongoing.

Photo by Efekan Akyuz/Reuters.
Boys flip into a canal running through Tashkent on a hot summer's day on August 14.Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko.
30 Boys flip into a canal running through Tashkent on a hot summer's day on August 14.

Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko.
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