Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
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.
Aleksandre Roinashvili overcame a difficult childhood and a broken marriage to capture some of the most valuable images of the Caucasus under Russian rule.
Hundreds of sportsmen and women in Ukraine have been killed in the Russian invasion. Some of Ukraine's elite athletes may have been en route to the Paris Olympics today if Russia had not launched its 2022 invasion. Here are profiles of some of those who will not be making the journey to France.
In 1874, a travel diary of Iran’s ruler Naser al-Din Shah was published in English for the first time, offering a fascinating insight into the shah’s trip through Russia, Western Europe, and the Caucasus that had taken place the previous year. It was the first trip of its kind by an Iranian ruler.
Life under Iran’s Qajar dynasty has been brought to light in spectacular fashion by a leak of photos stored in a Tehran museum.
With the arrival of the first shipment of F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv apparently imminent, former pilots of the jet offer insight into what the aircraft may, and may not, accomplish in Ukraine.
In a region of Romania where the Kremlin's drones have fallen amid the war on neighboring Ukraine, a population of ethnic Russians who fled the tsar centuries ago are keeping their dissident traditions alive.
A day after an Azerbaijani pro-government media outlet criticized the U.S. Ambassador Mark Libby's reluctance to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, he was on his way to visit the region.
Six months after Baku's complete recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic Armenians, satellite images suggest massive demolition of Armenian heritage is under way in the territory.
Recent footage from Ukraine shows both Russia and Kyiv are using unmanned ground vehicles in combat. Here is why wheeled drones have proved the most difficult remote-controlled systems to develop.
How a group of American aviators became the first people to fly around the world in an epic 175-day adventure.
Several devices designed during the Cold War to kill, injure, or monoitor adversaries might have been dismissed as urban legends if examples had not been documented in photos.
French astronomer Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche made a detailed description of life in 18th-century Russia as he travelled through Siberia. Now the descriptions he penned and the images that illustrated his book are freely available in an image archive.
As Britain’s royal family scrambles to address furors over photoshopped images, Turkmenistan keeps on releasing heavily altered images to document the activities of its authoritarian leadership.
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