Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

At least 12 people were killed in continuing overnight Russian strikes throughout Ukraine on May 25, with scores of residents wounded. In what Ukrainian authorities said was the largest Russian air ...

Romanian President-elect Nicusor Dan has returned a favor to political allies in Poland, addressing a mass rally in Warsaw in ...

A lot has changed in Central Asia in the more than three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As countries in ...

Kyiv is gearing up on May 25 for the third day of a mass prisoner exchange with Moscow following scenes of raw emotion as Ukrainian prisoners returned from incarceration in Russia, even as both sides ...

At his first NATO summit, Secretary-General Mark Rutte will try to keep Donald Trump onside, Ukraine out of the spotlight, ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, once imprisoned in his home country and for years banned from traveling abroad, on May 24 won the Palme d'Or, the prestigious award at the Cannes Film ...

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya urges Latvia and Lithuania to keep borders with Belarus open, warning that full closure could cut off escape routes for dissidents. She als ...

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on Latvia and Lithuania to keep their borders open with neighboring Belarus.

There were scenes of raw emotion as hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers returned from Russia on the second day of a mass prisoner exchange on May 24. Draped in Ukrainian flags, they emerged from buses and ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that another 307 Ukrainian defenders had returned home on May 24, as part of a major prisoner exchange with Russia.

Three people died and at least 15 people were injured in Russian-launched mass air attack on Ukrainian cities overnight. The deadly strike hit Odesa late on May 23, followed by hundreds of drones and ...