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Some 2,500 people in Turkmenistan’s Balkan region were mobilized this week to clean the streets, repaint buildings, and plant flowers along the sidewalks ahead of a “possible visit” by authoritarian ex-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.

Determined to stay put, Volodymyr survived the long Russian occupation of Velyka Oleksandrivka, a Kherson region town that was left in ruins when the invaders pulled out. But like other Ukrainians whose lives have been torn apart, he has lost a great deal, and there’s no way back to his past life.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 46th week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.

Hassan Draoftadeh, the father of a 16-year-old boy who was killed last month in the western Iranian city of Piranshahr, says that security agents summoned him and pressured him to say his son was killed by Kurdish groups and not by the Iranian government.

The veteran correspondent of conflicts from Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland to Palestine and Uganda talks about Vladimir Putin's "drip, drip, drip" of bad behavior morphing into "cyclones and nightmares."

The deputy chairman of the independent Labor Union of Belarus has been handed a 30-month prison term for telling factory workers to consider forming a strike committee as a crackdown on dissent continues in the country.

The Uzbek National Electricity Control Center has warned of possible blackouts across the Central Asian region due to a natural gas shortage in the country.

People who have been treated for Lyme disease, but continue to have symptoms, have changes in their brains that confirm the memory and concentration problems many of them have reported, a new study has found.

Russian authorities have started a preliminary investigation into a video published on a Telegram channel linked to the private Russian mercenary group Vagner that shows the brutal death by sledgehammer of a fighter who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side in the war against Russia.

Moldova's president, prime minister, and members of the senior ruling party gathered for an urgent weekend meeting after weeks of anti-government protests, pressure from Moscow, and social media hacks that targeted top officials.