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Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

As Russian forces neared their town outside Ukraine’s capital, the mayor and his family decided to separate, his wife and children taking refuge in a quiet hamlet a few kilometers away. Days later, it was time for a rethink – and a desperate rescue effort.

In an interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves questions dialogue with Russia and says that Georgia's position on the war in Ukraine is "absolutely despicable."

Russia's war on Ukraine threatens to devastate the economies of many developing countries that are now facing even higher food and energy costs and increasingly difficult financial conditions, a UN task force has warned.

Experts with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) say they found "clear patterns" of violations of international humanitarian law by Russian forces in Ukraine.

The prices of some drugs in Iran have soared amid plans by the government to eliminate a major medical subsidy. Pharmacists and residents say the cost of some drugs has increased fivefold. Iranians fear that the removal of the subsidy will make it impossible for them to access life-saving medicines.

A court in Moscow has replaced the 18-month parole-like sentence handed to opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, a close associate of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to actual prison time, saying she had violated the terms of her punishment by leaving the country.

Honestly, the free ones from the state look way better than the ones I bought online.

Kazakhstan will temporarily restrict exports of wheat and wheat flour starting on April 15. A ripple effect of the war in Ukraine, the move is bad news for Central Asian countries that rely on Kazakhstan for more than 90 percent of their wheat imports.

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