Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born photographer and picture researcher with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base is being revived once more for warfighting Russian vessels.
Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.
How Bulgarians rallied together to save their Jewish population from destruction during the Holocaust.
All four fighters competing for world titles at UFC 311 hail from the Caucasus region. RFE/RL spoke exclusively to Georgian UFC champion Merab Dvalishvili to ask him why fighters from Georgia, Armenia and Russia's Dagestan region are so overrepresented in elite martial arts.
A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive capture pitched battles in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago.
Archival images capture the optimism of the 1990s as Washington and Moscow opened the doors to their most sensitive military bases for goodwill tours.
Baku's COP29 has billed itself as an event where "all voices are heard." But some protesters are being treated very differently from others.
Hartmut Richter swam to freedom from East Berlin, then returned to help others flee. Today he works to preserve the memory of those killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled many teenagers have only a vague understanding of what the wall represented.
The Taliban has just banned images of anything “with a soul,” meaning people and animals. One veteran Afghan photojournalist remembers what that was like when the same prohibition was enforced through the Islamist group’s reign over Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite of the Soviet Union.
Two Bulgarians are building an archive that reveals what life for ordinary people was like in their country throughout the 20th century.
The frightening reality of how a nuclear strike on Europe -- however unlikely -- could unfold.
Sasha Selipanov witnessed the fall of the the Soviet Union, civil war in Georgia, then the chaos of 1990s Russia to become a legend of car design.
The Transfagarasan road was officially opened 50 years ago after a mammoth construction project cut through some of Europe’s most inhospitable mountains.
On the world's most popular podcast, Dimitry Toukhcher was introduced as controversial self-help guru Jordan Peterson's "crazy Russian" tailor. In fact, the entrepreneur was born in Soviet Ukraine, emigrated to Canada, and now runs a fashion house from his office in Estonia.
NATO-led troops ended the devastating war in Kosovo 25 years ago, but attacks on Serbian heritage have altered the cultural landscape of the region. Several damaged churches and monasteries have been restored with EU funds, others have disappeared completely.
Killer drones equipped with artificial intelligence are being tested by both sides on the battlefield in Ukraine. Developers hope to overcome drone jamming technology, but reliable automated targeting remains, for now, elusive.
Eighty years after they were sent to conquer Yugoslavia, five Nazi-made trains are still in operation in Bosnia.
Every August, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, and Bosniaks who have spent thousands of dollars on raising bulls battle for glory in one of the Balkans' oldest and most coveted sporting prizes.
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