From eagle hunters in Kazakhstan to a peaceful revolution in Armenia, these are some of the most striking images of the year 2018 from RFE/RL's photographers.
The Year's Best From RFE/RL's Photographers
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Workers pull apart a house in Khandyga, Russia, on February 2. The shifting ground caused by the uneven thawing of permafrost each summer causes buildings like this Soviet-era apartment house to sag and collapse. Find out more about people who work in Russia’s Sakha Republic through winter temperatures that regularly drop below -50 degrees Celsius in our feature story, The Coldest People on Earth. (Amos Chapple, RFE/RL)
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A protester attends a march organized by opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili's Movement of New Forces party in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 4. 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. (Serhii Nuzhnenko, RFE/RL)
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Young Pioneers pose during a parade in Minsk, Belarus, on February 8. More than 500 members of the youth group came from all over the country to take part in the parade at the Uruchcha Palace of Sports. (Uladz Hrydzin, RFE/RL)
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Students demonstrate in Tbilisi to demand improvements in the Georgian labor code on February 14. A day after a young worker died on a construction site, protesters turned out to show their solidarity with workers who have been injured or killed at work. (Mzia Saganelidze, RFE/RL)