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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Yemen has stood as one of the world’s gravest humanitarian disasters, with more than 20 million people—over half the ...

A Georgian national and alleged leader of a neo-Nazi group has been extradited from Moldova to the United States to face ...

The case has been described as a textbook illustration of how Russian intelligence now operates in Europe: outsourcing risky ...