Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
A small village in Serbia has been making pottery the same way for over 400 years. Now it's been recognized as part of the world's "intangible heritage."
It was a year most of us would like to forget, but 2020 did have some powerful good-news stories that got buried under the grim headlines.
Visits from Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic have sparked renewed interest in claims of ancient structures in an obscure Balkan town.
Haunting photos capture the Armenian cemetery that was destroyed 15 years ago as the world remained largely silent.
As a controversial cease-fire agreement is reached in Nagorno-Karabakh, the deaths of Armenian fighters are marked with black banners on the streets where the fallen lived.
On November 5, a tree-trunk-sized rocket roared over the hills of Nagorno-Karabakh and slammed into a house in Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Azerbaijan's breakaway region. Three people were reportedly killed. It was the latest, deadly use of what local authorities say was a Smerch rocket.
Around 700 paintings and drawings by a Jewish painter murdered during the Holocaust have been uncovered in a house in a Prague suburb that was being torn down. The works by Gertrud Kauders, who studied at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, were found behind walls and under floorboards.
Three fighters -- two of them wounded in the ongoing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh -- tell RFE/RL what they witnessed in battle.
As the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh rages on, a self-taught artist is making jewelry from weapons of war with an elegant message of peace.
After a Polish law came into force banning monuments that "symbolize or propagate" totalitarianism, RFE/RL's photographer documented some of the country's Soviet memorials. Three years later, he revisited the same locations to see what remains.
Two months after the Soviet-made "Lun" ekranoplan was hauled onto a remote beach in Daghestan to star in a military-themed Patriotic Park, the legendary craft remains wallowing in the breakers, sporting what appears to be significant damage.
Two years after an art treasure with a harrowing backstory was uncovered in the walls of a Prague house, the holder has gone public with the historic scale of the discovery.
Considered Russia's first photojournalist, Karl Bulla created a vivid record of St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, then left for an island on the Baltic Sea.
How a mission to introduce the world to Bosnia-Herzegovina changed the course of Alphonse Mucha’s life.
A photojournalist explains what led to a moment of quiet prayer inside a Minsk Catholic church as riot police trapped protesters inside.
After besieged Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka strode from his helicopter gripping an assault rifle on August 23, some watching may have felt a flash of deja vu.
Seldom-seen photographs from a Russian archive capture the reality of the war that was raging across Russia 100 years ago.
A Russian photographer snuck into the world’s only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle and captured rare images of its interior.
Rarely seen photographs of the David-versus-Goliath fight between Poland and communist Russia that raged on the outskirts of Warsaw 100 years ago
How Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II unfolded 25 years ago.
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