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The United Nations estimates that nearly 4 million refugees have left Ukraine since the start of the war on February 24. While many traveled together with family members, others traveled alone or with a beloved pet.

The Serbian opposition has long been in the political wilderness, plagued by infighting and stunted by an unfair electoral system. But this year change may be in the cards, with some opposition parties showing a more pragmatic approach, in terms of who they'll work with and who they'll nominate.

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

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Kyrgyz authorities to stop "harassing" independent media after a spate of criminal cases against journalists.

Ahead of elections that could unseat Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a crop of young politicians from his party are trying to attract a young crowd. But with unprecedented levels of spending on memes and action movies, some in the opposition are accusing the ruling party of having an unfair advantage.

Kazakhstan will not help Russia to evade Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a top Kazakh official has said.

In an exclusive interview, Peter Marki-Zay, the opposition's candidate for prime minister in April 3 elections, says Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a "traitor" for putting ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine at risk in the war with Russia and says "we have to stop Putin, not Brussels."

As the weather warms, experts are warning that tick season could be worse this year in Michigan.

Russia has continued shelling and launching missile strikes in Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv despite pledging it would reduce military activity around the area as Ukraine's military dismissed the Russian promises and braced for further heavy fighting in the east.

Since 2016, a nonstop avalanche of new findings on Lyme has crushed a lot of long-held beliefs about this disease.