A government opposition supporter guards a barricade in Kiev at the height of the standoff in January. (Jonathan Alpeyrie)
Activists in Tbilisi pressed their paint-coated hands against a board in support of domestic abuse victims. (Giorgi Lomsadze)
A Tajik woman poses in her home in Ishkashim, Tajikistan, which is on the border with Afghanistan. (Diana Markosian)
Ethnic Russian refugees from the civil war in Tajikistan gather water in a settlement near Moscow. (Konstantin Salomatin)
Murat Turan thanks the judges for his goldfinch winning a bird-singing contest in Istanbul. (Alexander Christie-Miller)
A non-combatant Ukrainian volunteer helps build a trench system near the border with Russia. (Katya Kumkova)
Elderly Tbilisi residents gather at Catharsis, one of the oldest Georgian-run charities. (Molly Corso)
An Afghan woman gathers water at the village's central stream in Ishkashim, Afghanistan. (Diana Markosian)
Bishop Pitirim proclaims "Christ is Risen," marking the start of Easter for Tajikistan’s Russian community. (David Trilling)
Cossacks have experienced a revival since their Soviet-era repression, especially in Russia's southern regions. (Noah Sneider)
Pragnesh Shah examines a stone at Dimotech, Armenia’s second largest diamond-refining factory. (Nazik Armanakyan)
The Kazantip dance fest has its first run on Georgia’s Black Sea coast after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. (Paul Rimple)
Maxim Plekhov adjusts one of his Ukrainian company’s signature bulletproof vests for a photo shoot. (Katya Kumkova)
A football player has his team’s name shaved in his hair at a Moscow tournament for Tajik labor migrants. (Konstantin Salomatin)
Kyrgyz border guards patrol Ak-Sai and areas Kyrgyzstan disputes with Tajikistan's Vorukh exclave. (David Trilling)
Hakan Karadenizli holds a male greenfinch, which he breeds for singing competitions in Turkey. (Alexander Christie-Miller)
Russian soldiers deliver wreaths at a ceremony honoring victims of the siege of Leningrad. (Noah Sneider)
A young boy travels with parents inside a van, following sheep to summer pastures in Kyrgyzstan. (Konstantin Salomatin)
Lyubov Lyzhikhina, from Tajikistan, has lived in the Borisoglebsk refugee settlement since 1998. (Konstantin Salomatin)
Amarcum Arakian, an ethnic Armenian, cuts the hair of Josif Petriashvili, a Georgian, in Georgia. (Justyna Mielnikiewicz)
After donning their spacesuits, a Soyuz crew of three are bused to their rocket for liftoff in Kazakhstan. (David Trilling)
Ukrainian government opposition protestors gather in central Kharkiv in support of the protests in Kyiv. (Jonathan Alpeyrie)
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