Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fourth week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (January 20-26)
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Demonstrators flash mobile phone lights during a protest against government policies, corruption, and negligence, which they blame for the deaths of the victims in the November 2024 Novi Sad railway station disaster, in Belgrade on January 24.
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People clear the rubble inside St. Andrew's Cathedral ,which was damaged by a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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A Russian officer listens to a speech at a Budapest synagogue as people commemorated the 80th anniversary of the former Budapest ghetto's liberation during World War II.
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Ethnic Serbs take part in the traditional Epiphany swimming competition in Gazivoda, Kosovo.
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Police officers and a wounded resident evacuate a woman from an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
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Ukraine's Elina Svitolina writes a message on a TV camera after winning her fourth-round match against Russia's Veronika Kudermetova in the Australian Open.
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A vendor sells peanuts at a peanut market in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Iranian daily newspapers at a newsstand in Tehran on January 21 include Sazandegi (center), which leads with a piece on U.S. President Donald Trump titled "Trump Again."
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A Ukrainian soldier of the 110th Territorial Defence Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces holds a cat inside a dugout at a position on a front line in the Zaporizhzhya region.
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People stand in voting booths at a polling station during Belarus's presidential election in Minsk on January 26.
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A Ukrainian soldier of 24th Mechanized Brigade trains at the polygon not far from the front line in the Donetsk region on January 21.