Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Chilling photographs shot in secret by a German soldier who took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union
Photographs tell the story of a “forgotten war” that began 70 years ago and has never formally ended.
A life-sized statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was unveiled on June 20 in Gelsenkirchen, a former mining town in western Germany by the radical left-wing Marxist-Leninist Party Of Germany (MLPD).
A Russian drone photographer has revealed one of the former Soviet Union’s mythical geoglyphs.
Portraits captured by an American photographer who witnessed Europe’s wild south in a deeply troubled time
Exquisite sketches and watercolor paintings bring to life a largely forgotten expedition by Russian explorers in the early 1800s.
One of the world’s leading colorists of historic photos fears she will be banned permanently from Facebook and Instagram after multiple suspensions of her accounts.
The dazzling photography and eye-opening observations of Anzor Bukharsky, one of Bukhara’s only street photographers.
Before becoming famous for photographing tsarist Russia, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky captured stunning photos of life in Central Asia more than a century ago.
After a legal battle and widespread controversy over its installation, a communist-era statue to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin will spend the dictator's birthday locked in storage in Germany due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2003, a coronavirus that killed one in every 10 people it infected emerged from China and spread through several countries. Then, within eight months of being detected, it seemingly vanished. RFE/RL asked one of the world’s leading virologists why.
Until the coronavirus crisis, the Czech capital was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and its streets were jammed with tourists. Now, a national state of emergency is in effect, the borders are mostly closed, and everyone in the country is required to cover their face in public. RFE/RL correspondent Amos Chapple recorded these haunting images of the city in lockdown.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked fears of a global recession. It would not be the first time the world's economy has been rattled. Here are some of the most dramatic financial storms we have weathered before.
It's one of the eeriest sites in the Caucasus, but widely reported stories of locals entombing themselves to save their village from disease are likely only legends.
A small band of Armenians are working around-the-clock to produce and hand out homemade face masks.
An Iranian photojournalist claims her work has been "hijacked" by a World Press Photo Award nominee.
A Lithuanian photographer recalls the night -- 30 years ago -- his country became the first Soviet republic to declare independence.
Thirteen years after his first trip to Uzbekistan, RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple revisited two of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to find them transformed by the “accelerated development” the country has embraced in order to attract tourism.
Inside the formerly top-secret facility used by the Soviet Union’s space and weapons programs.
A theater in Tashkent has become a cultural battleground between its fans -- including the Uzbek president’s daughter -- and property developers.
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