Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 15th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (April 7-13)
- By RFE/RL
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Afghan refugees embrace each other before leaving for Afghanistan at a bus stand in Karachi. Thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have been forcibly repatriated since Pakistani authorities set an April 10 deadline for those without documents to leave the country.
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A Ukrainian municipal worker cleans an area at the site of a Russian drone strike on Dnipro on April 9.
3
Relatives and friends mourn next to the coffin of 18-year-old Ukrainian soldier Olexandr Samoilovich during his funeral ceremony in the city of Slavuta.
4
A woman takes selfies in central Moscow with the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral in the background after a snowfall in the Russian capital.
5
US-Russian ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina hugs her boyfriend, South African boxer Chris van Heerden, as she arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland following her release from Russia. She had been imprisoned there for donating $51 to a US-based Ukrainian aid charity before being freed as part of a prisoner swap.
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An Afghan boy selling eggs waits for customers in Charikar in Parwan Province.
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People gather on a square in the town of Yevpatoria in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula to look at a giant inflatable installed ahead of Cosmonautics Day on April 12.
8
Serbian student cyclists celebrate as they arrive at a stopover during a bike ride to Strasbourg, France. Their trip aims to raise awareness within European Union institutions about ongoing anti-government protests in Serbia.
9
Ukrainian soldiers rest at their position on the front line near the town of Toretsk in the Donetsk region.
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Mourners attend a funeral ceremony on April 7 for two children who were killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian town of Kryviy Rih three days earlier.
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Georgians light candles on an anniversary of the so-called Tbilisi Tragedy in which 20 people were killed on April 9, 1989, during an anti-Soviet demonstration and marking a Day of Unity at the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi.
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A Russian Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Protesters gather on Budapest's Elisabeth Bridge to demonstrate after the Hungarian parliament passed a law that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march and which also introduces broader constraints on freedom of assembly.
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A woman walks her dog among pigeons in Moscow's Bauman Garden.
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Iranian protesters set Israeli flags on fire during a rally on Tehran's Palestine Square on to denounce Israel's resumption last month of massive military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Locals pass by burned cars at the site of a Russian drone strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on April 9.
