Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Surprising photos of soldiers in Almaty wearing UN peacekeeping helmets spark a response from the United Nations.
A Vladivostok photographer is documenting the haunting phenomenon of North Korean fishing vessels drifting onto Russia's Primorsky Krai coastline.
Some of the photos compiled over decades of work by Russia's Memorial International, which was ordered to be "liquidated" by the country's Supreme Court on December 28.
A photo album sitting on the shelves of Ukraine's KGB archives reveals how an amateur U.S. spy was captured, then imprisoned, 60 years ago.
The writing of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch impacted the world, but in his birthplace of Lviv, in western Ukraine, his controversial legacy has not been officially recognized.
Far from the front line of the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, residents of the country's western city of Lviv spoke to RFE/RL on December 13 about fears of a full-scale invasion of their country by Russia.
Witnessing the strange, static warfare that is being fought every day in eastern Ukraine.
Locals in the town of New York, in eastern Ukraine, describe living with war on their doorstep.
Amid concerns about a large Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border, frontline fighters in the Donbas downplay warnings from Kyiv and Western intelligence agencies that Moscow may be planning a major new offensive.
Archaeologists working near Yerevan uncovered (then reburied) the Roman Empire's easternmost aqueduct.
When Armenians bake the flatbread known as lavash, they incorporate Christian rituals and family knowledge -- but few people still practice this culinary craft at home. Knarik Torosian is one baker who still makes lavash in an underground wood-fired oven.
The Armenian documenting the ancient cross-stones scattered across the farmland and forests of his home country.
After police searched the apartment of a woman protesting a Yerevan property development, locals say hopes of change after the 2018 revolution are fading.
The Georgian photographer uncovering the secret spaces abandoned under the streets of Tbilisi.
A Moscow trade show pitching glitzy funeral options takes on grim significance as hundreds of Russians die each day from COVID-19.
Rare photographs show the construction and unveiling of some of the famous monuments built during Yugoslavia's socialist era.
Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghan women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15.
Photographs held in a European archive capture the booming oil fields of Romania when the country was one of the world's largest producers of black gold.
How an adventurous traveler sketched the cultures and landmarks of the Crimean Peninsula nearly 200 years ago.
Trials are under way on "Teslagrams" made from tiny fragments of butterfly wings that could put an end to fraud.
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