Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
In 1924, Swiss aviator and photographer Walter Mittelholzer captured an extraordinary series of images of today’s Iran from the air as the country stood on the cusp of being transformed by modernization.
A recipe founded on hardship in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is becoming a street-food staple across Armenia at the same time as it makes waves in the United States.
The vibration of a reed that grows around the Nagorno-Karabakh region has provided the sound of Armenia’s duduk, a wind instrument, for centuries. Azerbaijan’s military takeover of the territory means duduk makers are now looking to Europe for reeds, but some fear the sound might change forever.
Two months before the Kremlin launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine, RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple visited the trenches of what was then a static conflict. Two years later, the Ukrainians who survived the invasion recall what happened on February 24, 2022.
Hundreds of images made by police photographers in Budapest in the early 1970s have been released by the Hungarian photo archive Fortepan. They offer a rare glimpse into the underbelly of life during communist Hungary’s “normalization” period after the crushing of the 1956 revolution.
How Soviet and American engineers tried, and failed, to spark an electric car revolution 50 years ago.
After military offensives that drove out ethnic Armenians from in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a massive development drive is transforming Azerbaijan's retaken land.
The Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904-05 was anticipated to be a "short, successful war" for Russia against an inferior opponent. Instead, it became a rout of St. Petersburg's forces in the Far East, and the beginning of the end for Russia’s last tsar.
When American David Hadaller began posting the slide photos he had furtively made inside communist Romania in the 1980s, the images took on a life of their own. The retired academic now has thousands of followers waiting for each new glimpse of a country captured on the edge of upheaval.
The funeral for acclaimed poet and photographer Maksym Kryvtsov is scheduled to be held on January 11 in Kyiv. Kryvtsov’s death added another name to a long list of Ukrainian artists who have died defending their country from the ongoing Russian invasion.
After a career documenting the fringes of communist Hungarian society, photojournalist Tamas Urban is slowly releasing a wealth of images to the public that include photos capturing the violence and humanity of life inside the totalitarian prison system.
Before World War II and a communist dictatorship devastated Budapest in the 20th century, the Hungarian capital was home to several architectural treasures that now exist only in photographs.
A young Tbilisi historian has sparked national discussion after finding hundreds of photos of Georgia's turbulent 1990s.
In December 1973, a Paris publishing house began printing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. The book, which exposed the horrors of Soviet communism, has been cited as one of the reasons for the U.S.S.R.'s collapse. Solzhenitsyn's son Ignat, an acclaimed conductor, spoke with RFE/RL
Amid the ongoing war in Israel, a disputed land deal has reached crisis point after bulldozers began tearing up a contested section of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter.
Nearly two years into an invasion with increasingly vague goals, recent photos show symbols from Russia’s Soviet past becoming increasingly mainstreamed as a rallying point for Russian troops.
Blacksmiths in the northern Armenian city of Gyumri may have their craftsmanship honored with an inscription on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December. But unlike many fading traditions in the Caucasus, this trade is thriving.
In a village school near Yerevan, the curriculum includes the life lessons of selling food that was grown and processed on site.
In 1919, a well-armed delegation of American soldiers explored the Caucasus with an eye to establishing a U.S. mandate over the war-torn Caucasus region. Here are the photos and snippets of the fascinating reports they submitted to Washington.
Amateur photos images reveal the years-long process to demolish and remove one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals.
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