Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
RFE/RL's photo correspondent recalls the moments from a weeklong assignment that capture how Ukrainian society has been fundamentally changed by the Russian invasion.
Two women are offering a lifeline for stray dogs and pets abandoned by their owners who were forced to flee war in eastern Ukraine. After losing her home in the Luhansk region and barely escaping with her life, Alina Metyolkina says volunteering at an animal shelter has brought her "back to life."
Petrykivka painters are continuing their craft as missiles hammer eastern Ukraine and the town's historic art collection is transported to safety.
A Lebanese-Armenian is helping to preserve Armenian culture by making ornately carved traditional stones known as khachkars. Narine Poladian is the first woman to take up the craft professionally.
Talks to "normalize" relations between Ankara and Yerevan are ongoing but some villagers near the shared border are already preparing for long-abandoned crossing points to reopen.
A day after Georgia's government announced it had taken over a majority stake in the iconic Borjomi bottled-water brand, workers remain on strike and the precious liquid is running straight into the town's river.
After a demolition crew made a startling art discovery in the walls of a Prague house, the work of Gertrud Kauders has been handed over to her descendants. Kauders was a Jewish artist from Prague who was murdered in a Nazi death camp in World War II.
Croatia's Peljesac Bridge officially opens on July 26, allowing travelers to skirt border checkpoints. But not everyone is excited about the spectacular structure.
Amid repeated hints from the Kremlin that nuclear war is again possible in Europe, a secret atomic bomb shelter in Bosnia-Herzegovina is seeing a surge in interest from tourists.
Budapest's most famous statue and the tragic human story behind it.
Workers at a shelter in Dnipro that is home to hundreds of vulnerable animals are vowing to stay on, even as other animal-rescue centers close down amid violence and uncertainty in eastern Ukraine.
Eight voters from across Hungary open up about the issues that matter most to them ahead of April 3 parliamentary elections that will decide the fate of the current prime minister, Viktor Orban, and his right-wing government.
Fascinating photographs from a Belgrade archive, some published here for the first time, show the authoritarian ruler of Yugoslavia relaxing between official engagements on the hunting grounds and dance floors of the Balkans.
Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Archival images show what some of those inscriptions and artworks look like.
In the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, life continues as normal even as locals say the chances of a Russian invasion are very real.
A rare collection of color images made by a European woman who traveled throughout Iran as modernization and political upheavals forever changed the country.
Two of Ukraine's most experienced combat photojournalists spoke to RFE/RL about the atmosphere along the line of contact in the Donbas as fears for an all-out Russian invasion mount.
Fears for a legendary art collection in the desert town of Nukus led to activists and volunteers preserving the treasures with photographs on a new website.
Photographs and thousands of documents casting light on the fate of Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned in the gulag have been published online, with many more to follow.
In the wake of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's order to extinguish the flaming Darvaza gas crater, photographer Amos Chapple recalls visiting the site before it became one of Turkmenistan's most famous tourist destinations.
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