Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

Russian film critic Yekaterina Barabash, under house arrest for opposing the war in Ukraine, has gone missing. Authorities ...

As the US dollar tanks value amid tariff turmoil, Central Asian migrant workers are benefitting from a surging Russian ruble – bringing a huge boost in remittances sent home.

A Russian drone attack hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region on April 23, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, local ...