Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
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.
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.
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