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A garden in the village of Murtino, Macedonia is flooded on Feb. 27, 2013. One man drowned and several hundred homes in Macedonia were flooded on Tuesday as two days of heavy rain drenched farmland and caused power outages in the Balkan country, authorities said.
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Fishermen break the ice to ensure fish their supply of oxygen at the frozen Dojran Lake, some 162km south of the capital Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Feb. 11. Fishermen are trying to protect the fish supply from thousands of birds while Siberian temperatures of minus 20 Celsius per night have frozen waters along the coast of the Dojran Lake.
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Emrie Bektur, a Romany mother of six, rests in a discarded factory which serves as her family's make-shift home in Skopje, Macedonia on Feb. 1. More than 130 people have died across Eastern Europe and Germany since the cold snap began.
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Emrie Bektur collects wood to warm their make-shift home in a discarded factory, in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Romany children play outside the discarded factory which has become their home in Skopje on Feb. 2.
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Rozalinda Ali, a Romany mother of eight, breastfeeds her three-month old son inside their makeshift home in an old Skopje factory.
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Ali Ali, a Romany father of eight, holds his three-month old son at their make-shift home in a discarded factory in Skopje on Feb. 2.
Temperatures across Eastern Europe sank to minus 26.5 F in some areas. Parts of the Black Sea froze near the Romanian coastline, and rare snow fell on Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea.
In Bulgaria, 16 towns recorded their lowest temperatures since records started 100 years ago.
Polish government spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said her country's victims were mostly homeless people under the influence of alcohol who had sought shelter in unheated buildings. Officials appealed to the public Thursday to quickly help anyone they saw in need.
-- msnbc.com news services contributed to this post.
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A carnival goer in an Elvis Presley mask takes part in a parade through Vevcani on Friday.
The Vevcani Carnival is an interesting mix of Christian, Pagan and modern culture. Participants dress up in homemade costumes and present performances that ridicule popular and political figures.
The carnival has been happening for the last 1,400 years, and it marks the beginning of the New Year on the old Julian calendar.
Kids watch a carnival parade in Vevcani on Friday.
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A young man with a portrait of the former Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov, walks in front of the funeral procession at a cemetery in Macedonia's capital Skopje, on Jan. 3, 2012. Gligorov, who narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 1995, was buried Tuesday in his family's grave in the capital of Skopje. About 100 people took part in the private, non-religious ceremony. Macedonians marked a national day of mourning Tuesday for Gligorov, their first democratically elected president who shepherded the tiny Balkan nation through a bloodless secession from the former Yugoslavia.
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A disguised reveler takes part in a carnival procession through the town of Vevcani, Macedonia on Jan. 13, 2011.The Vevchani carnival is 1,400 years old and is held every year on the eve of the feast of Saint Basil, which also marks the beginning of the New Year according to the Julian calendar, observed by the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
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