Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Futuristic laser weapons are now deployed with some militaries and are being demonstrated by Ukrainian startups. Industry insiders say the technology can counter the threat of cheap kamikaze drones, but there are significant caveats.
America's ongoing Epic Fury is the latest military operation with its own name. Here's how that title differs from previous operation names, and where the tradition comes from.
Yaroslav Amosov walked away from a stellar mixed martial arts career to fight against Russian forces occupying his home town of Irpin. Four years on, he has just been signed to the world's premiere MMA promotion.
Ukrainian mixed martial arts (MMA) champion Yaroslav Amosov left a stellar MMA career to fight Russian forces occupying his home town of Irpin. In 2022, the former Bellator MMA champion recovered his belt from his mother’s home. Now he has returned to the octagon after signing with the UFC.
They call themselves "military penguins" and belong to a small group from Ukraine's Antarctic research facility who have returned home to fight against Russia's invasion. RFE/RL speaks to Yuriy Lyshenko, whose journey spans 15,000 kilometers from the South Pole to the battlefields of his country.
Soon after his most famous public monument was completed, Hossein Amanat was forced to flee Iran amid the Islamic revolution. The architect spoke to RFE/RL about watching his Azadi Tower being used as a backdrop for Islamic regime military parades.
An online museum aims to make Ukraine’s heritage accessible to the public while many of the featured treasures remain impossible to view in person.
Yevhen Tkachov, an aid worker with the NGO Proliska, has spent years helping Ukrainians evacuate from war-torn towns and villages. He's had more narrow escapes from enemy fire than he can count and has caught some harrowing scenes on camera as drones and missiles hit nearby.
A small but growing contingent of Ukrainians have become veterans both of Ukraine's only Antarctic base, and the battle against the Russian invasion.
A Ukrainian aid worker risks drones, shells, and artillery to evacuate civilians from towns on the edge of Russia’s advance, returning again and again despite several close calls.
An intersection in Tehran has been coopted as a vast visual propaganda platform as domestic and external crises mount for Iran's Islamic Republic.
Since fleeing Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion, Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn has dominated the competition and is likely to become the first ever European-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest possible rank.
Images from a workshop in Russian-held territory in Ukraine show spiky wire armor being fitted to military vehicles as anti-drone methods evolve in real time.
An animal welfare crisis is unfolding in Ukraine as stray dogs and cats are dying from cold and thirst exacerbated by Russian strikes on energy facilities. But there is one critical resource people can donate to help.
Decades-old Russian airliners are being pulled out of storage to equip the country’s airlines amid Western sanctions and a faltering native aviation industry.
On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time in more than half a century that the two countries' nuclear programs will be unconstrained by numerical limits.
Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the island.
In the forests and mountains of the Czech Republic there are forgotten mines where the Kremlin once used forced labor to dig out its uranium for nuclear weapons.
The famous Darvaza gas crater is burning at a fraction of its former intensity. Now Turkmenistan has a technical plan to put it out for good.
Industry veterans warn that a flood of cheap, increasingly sophisticated Chinese vehicles is beginning to upend Europe’s auto industry.
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