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Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked to revive Moscow’s influence in Africa over the past decade as he seeks to restore his nation’s great-power status. But will Russia’s war in Ukraine undermine those efforts?

Tehran has homed in on its drone technology as it looks to keep the security situation in Afghanistan in check and gain regional influence.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.

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A young girl from Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has chosen her high-school graduation ceremony to express her opposition to Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

As battles rage in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, people living in the strategic Black Sea port city of Odesa are trying to live life as normally as possible. Odesa has been hit by Russian missiles, but the city has so far been been spared any full-scale assault.

A Kazakh court has replaced another activist's prison sentence with a parole-like penalty, the latest in a series of similar moves in President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's self-proclaimed liberalization campaign amid an outcry by human rights groups over political prisoners.

Ukraine's Armed Forces have warned of an increase in military activity and troop levels by Belarus near the border.

Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was imprisoned in Russia for nearly three years on charges that were widely condemned as being trumped-up, says he refused to let himself hope for his release up until the day he left detention.

Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has told an assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the impact of Russia’s invasion on health care and mental well-being could last for decades.