Coilin O'Connor is a digital editor for RFE/RL. He previously worked as a translator and editor for the publications department of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and headed the English department of Radio Prague International. He has also had numerous reports published by various media outlets, including Deutsche Welle and The Atlantic, among others.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in some parts of our broadcast region, we talked to Gayane Danielian from RFE/RL's Armenian Service about how Christmas is celebrated in her country.
Andrei Sakharov, who was born 100 years ago this month, remains an inspirational figure for human rights activists around the world. We take a pictorial look at how this brilliant and loyal Soviet physicist ultimately became the U.S.S.R.'s strongest and most celebrated voice of moral dissent.
Despite the best efforts of Soviets to suppress evidence of the terrible famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, a handful of photographers managed to defy the authorities by capturing the horrors of the Holodomor on film.
When the KGB sanctioned the opening of the Leningrad Rock Club in March 1981, it probably had no idea that this small, "alternative" venue would become synonymous with the tumultuous changes that swept through the Soviet Union just a few years later.
When a Czech archaeology student happened to notice some unusual markings on a bone fragment she was washing after a routine excavation, she had little idea she had stumbled across a stunning artifact that could shed new light on a murky period in Europe's past.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in some parts of our broadcast region, we talked to Okropir Rukhadze from RFE/RL's Georgian Service about how Christmas is celebrated in his country.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in our broadcast area, we asked correspondents from RFE/RL's Balkan Service to tell us about how Christmas is celebrated in their respective countries.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in our broadcast region, we talked to Irina Lagunina from RFE/RL's Russian Service about seasonal traditions in her country.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are observed in our broadcast region, we talked to Teodora Gazakova from RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service about how Christmas is celebrated in her country.
Another poor walnut harvest has only served to highlight the long-standing problems facing Kyrgyzstan's ancient Arslanbob forest, whose local economy is often as fragile as the delicate ecosystem that underpins it.
It's been 30 years since communist Ukraine was shaken by a coterie of students who went on hunger strike in the heart of Kyiv to demand greater sovereignty and democratic reforms.
Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Ranchukov, who died last year, liked to take his camera out onto the streets of his native Kyiv and other cities to pursue his own gritty brand of street photography.
Now that we are living in a post-Blade-Runner era, it's worth noting that the coming decade was singled out as a pivotal period by various science-fiction writers and futurologists. As we get the 2020s under way, here's a quick dive into what some forward-looking thinkers in the past thought the coming decade would look like.
With the financial world reeling from the news that an almost $9 billion global money-laundering scheme was allegedly set up and run by Russia's largest private investment bank, here are five quick takeaways based on what we know so far from the revelations.
When Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia 50 years ago, crushing the period of liberalization known as the Prague Spring, a young photographer named Libor Hajsky captured scenes of violence and fear -- as well as moments of empathy and dark humor.
British historical author Antony Beevor says he was dumbfounded to learn that Ukraine banned a Russian version of his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Forty years ago this week, the first civic opposition movement in the Eastern Bloc was born, and a rock band was at its heart. Czechoslovak dissidents drew up the human rights petition known as Charter 77 after the Communist authorities jailed members of an underground musical group.
A Czech television station is at the center of a storm amid reports that it instructed its journalists to deliberately portray the migrant crisis as a serious threat to the country.
The Oscar-nominated documentary film Winter On Fire serves as a timely and often poignant reminder of the passion that led many Ukrainians to take a leap of faith on the streets of Kyiv two years ago.
A team of Czech archaeologists has embarked on a project to try and map the impact of the Islamic State group's destructive activities in Mosul, Iraq.
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