Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Rare archival photographs capture the time U.S. troops and Bolshevik fighters battled each other in the Russian wilderness.
Georgia’s wealthiest man has promised to revive Tskaltubo’s crumbling sanatoriums, but not everyone trusts the deal.
High in the Caucasus Mountains, a former Soviet weapons-research facility now studies mysterious particles streaking in from space.
The work of a forgotten photographer uncovered in a village attic in Moldova.
Russia operates the world’s largest fleet of major icebreaking ships and, in December, the country began sea tests for the most powerful icebreaker ever built. The trials cap a long history of cracking ice for both economic and military advantage in arctic waters.
Photographer Amos Chapple took a "night-mode" enabled smartphone camera to document life in Russia’s north through the polar night.
After RFE/RL broke the story of a secret hoard of photographs discovered in a St. Petersburg attic in 2017, the photographs of Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) have become an international sensation.
Inside the spectacular aircraft reserved for the most famous, and infamous, heads of state.
An archive of thousands of images of the Soviet Union's 1939 invasion of Finland have been scanned and digitized, revealing the harrowing human details of the David vs. Goliath struggle.
Gruesome images published, then edited, then erased by Tajik officials have raised questions about what exactly transpired during a reported terror attack on a remote border post.
Abandoned photographs found on the front line of the Ukraine conflict reveal intimate moments of life before the war. Now the Australian photojournalist who discovered them hopes he can return the photos to their owners.
Secretly taken photographs, some published here for the first time, show the lengths Czechoslovakia’s communist authorities went to to spy on their own citizens.
Georgian tea was once among the finest in the world. Then Soviet planners drove up production and ruined its reputation. Now, it’s making a comeback.
In Georgia's mountainous Tusheti region, a spectacular and dangerous road holds some surprises, if you know where to look.
Nestled between one of the Armenians' most cherished landmarks and an aging Soviet-era nuclear plant, the magnificent dome-and-drum edifice of a new Yazidi temple will serve a surprisingly robust Yazidi community in the heart of the South Caucasus.
In eastern Estonia, it’s possible to briefly enter Russia without any paperwork, but some unusual conditions apply.
In the aftermath of Kharkiv’s first gay-pride parade, one incident stands out for its harrowing violence and the way it was stopped -- by a veteran photojournalist.
In German-occupied Prague, a disturbing exhibition of “souvenirs” captured during the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. shows how one totalitarian regime sought to discredit the other.
Rare photographs from the World War II era shed light on a dark period in Prague's history.
A mysterious phone call and a daring chance led a Latvian photojournalist to capture one of history’s most spectacular protests by helicopter.
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