A protester attends a march organized by opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili's Movement of New Forces party in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 4, 2018. Thousands marched through the Ukrainian capital to call for President Petro Poroshenko's resignation. On February 12, Ukrainian security forces detained Saakashvili in Kyiv and deported him. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Workers pull apart a house in Khandyga, Russia, on February 2, 2018. The shifting ground caused by the uneven thawing of permafrost each summer causes buildings like this Soviet-era apartment house to sag and collapse. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A Kazakh eagle hunter, known as a “berkutchi”, takes a part in national hunting competition in Uralsk, Kazakhstan, on February 25, 2018. (Photo by Pyotr Trotsenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





The Prypyat river floods the Homel region in Belarus, April 4, 2018. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Children wait for the Holy Fire, a flame lit in Jerusalem and passed from candle to candle, to arrive at the Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in Kyiv on Easter night, April 7, 2018. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





People mourn over victims of the 1992-1993 conflict in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia as the victims' bodies were returned to Tbilisi on April 26, 2018. (Photo by Mzia Saganelidze/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Police arrest protesters in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 10, 2018. Dozens of people were detained at rallies calling for the release of political prisoners in the Central Asian state. (Photo by Assylkhan Mamashuly/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Young Crimean Tatars pray on the slopes of the Chatyr-Dah mountains in Crimea on May 13, 2018. More than 1,000 people commemorated the victims of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from their homeland during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1944. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A girl watches a school graduation celebration on May 25, 2018 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Beksultan Abibakir/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A shepherd in Georgia's Tusheti mountains on May 28, 2018. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A starry night in the mountains near Kyrgyzstan's Kol-Suu Lake in Naryn Province on July 18, 2018. (Photo by Bektur Stamkulov/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A station of the Tashkent Metro in Uzbekistan, August 9, 2018. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





The ruins of a library in the frontline village of Opytne near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on August 11, 2018. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Azerbaijani Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, in Baku on August 22, 2018. Sheep and other animals are slaughtered as a symbolic offering to God. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A soldier in Zaslaeu, in the Minsk region of Belarus, during a city celebration on August 26, 2018. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A bride belonging to Kazakhstan's Dungan minority wears hand-embroidered clothing before her wedding in the village of Sortobe on August 27, 2018. (Photo by Petr Trotsenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Riders fight in a mock battle on horseback on the opening day of the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Remains of a railway, known as Stalin's Dead Road, in the Russian taiga between Salekhard and Nadym, September 23, 2018. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A look inside the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on November 1, 2018. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Fog partly conceals the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 6, 2018. The 102-meter-tall statue belongs to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A Ukrainian soldier in a front line position in the village of Zholobok in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region on November 7, 2018. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A man walks in front of the 800-year-old Great Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, on December 10, 2018. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)