Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Thirty-five years after the Soviet military began departing Czechia's Milovice Air Base, armored hangars that once held MiG warplanes now shelter Cessnas.
Thirty-five years after the Soviet military left the Czech Republic's Milovice Air Base, armored hangars that once held MiG warplanes now shelter American-made Cessna microlight aircraft.
Across Europe, some 4.3 million refugees could soon have the option of returning to a peaceful Ukraine, but many no longer want to.
Three years into the Russian invasion, many Ukrainian refugees have put down roots in the EU, but some worry they could be forced to return home if a peace agreement is reached. As one mother living in the Czech Republic says, "I need to earn more" to ensure her son grows up in a safe environment.
New rules have been handed down to women working in Ashgabat further restricting what they can wear, adding to a growing list of "aesthetic" requirements in Turkmenistan.
Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the island.
A Georgian amputee in Ukraine is fighting the Russian invasion with an advanced prosthetic arm.
A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base is being revived once more for warfighting Russian vessels.
Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.
How Bulgarians rallied together to save their Jewish population from destruction during the Holocaust.
All four fighters competing for world titles at UFC 311 hail from the Caucasus region. RFE/RL spoke exclusively to Georgian UFC champion Merab Dvalishvili to ask him why fighters from Georgia, Armenia and Russia's Dagestan region are so overrepresented in elite martial arts.
A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive capture pitched battles in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago.
Archival images capture the optimism of the 1990s as Washington and Moscow opened the doors to their most sensitive military bases for goodwill tours.
Baku's COP29 has billed itself as an event where "all voices are heard." But some protesters are being treated very differently from others.
Hartmut Richter swam to freedom from East Berlin, then returned to help others flee. Today he works to preserve the memory of those killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled many teenagers have only a vague understanding of what the wall represented.
The Taliban has just banned images of anything “with a soul,” meaning people and animals. One veteran Afghan photojournalist remembers what that was like when the same prohibition was enforced through the Islamist group’s reign over Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite of the Soviet Union.
Two Bulgarians are building an archive that reveals what life for ordinary people was like in their country throughout the 20th century.
The frightening reality of how a nuclear strike on Europe -- however unlikely -- could unfold.
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