Roman Kupka is a senior camera operator for RFE/RL.
Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar visits her homeland every year to mark the day that her parents were killed in 1998. She tells RFE/RL how her most recent trip to Iran revealed a society going through profound change that the regime is increasingly unable to control.
After fleeing Ukraine, Kateryna Melekheda was desperate to find a place to live in the Czech Republic. That's when a Good Samaritan stepped in with a generous offer of help.
With more than 500 players now registered with ice hockey teams across Georgia, the sport is slowly making a comeback in the South Caucasus nation.
How the son of an infamous U.S. neo-Nazi overcame his father's hateful ideology through his many journeys across the South Caucasus nation of Georgia.
Transport authorities in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, plan to restore a Soviet-era cable car line more than 30 years after a deadly accident shut down the service.
Two brothers, reunited after years of being separated by the Berlin Wall, began a campaign of radical action -- armed with 12 empty beer bottles, a canister of kerosene, and an 8mm video camera. Their story is now a graphic novel used in German schools. The full version of the documentary is in the link below.
Every year, hundreds of people from across Europe and North America converge on a military base in Germany to re-fight a battle from the U.S. Civil War. There's cavalry, artillery, soldiers, and civilians, with meticulous attention to detail right down to the last button.
Forty years of Soviet nuclear bomb tests have left a toxic wasteland in Kazakhstan. The nuclear explosions have stopped, but Russia still rents vast swathes of Kazakh territory for missile tests that critics say are devastating for the environment and its inhabitants.
Kazakh villagers living close to military test sites struggle with "mysterious" illnesses and a toxic nuclear legacy.
Now 90 years old, Omirzak Doszhanov was a fisherman on the Aral Sea before most of it dried into a dust bowl in one of the world's greatest environmental disasters. He remembers the sea's Soviet heyday and prays for it to return to its former glory.
An eerie wind is the only sound to be heard in a once-secret northern Kazakh town which used to be the hub of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
A survivor of the 1988 chemical gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja makes a remarkable journey back home to discover his lost family, his people, and himself.
Iraqi Kurds are struggling with the economic backlash that resulted from their controversial independence referendum.
Survivors of one of worst-ever gas attacks on civilians struggle with the toxic legacy of chemical weapons.
He was the only child in his family to survive Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical-weapons attack on the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja. After being adopted in Iran, Zmnako Muhammad Ahmad has made the emotional journey back home to discover his roots.
On the Kazakh-Chinese border, plans are taking shape for what the authorities say will be the largest Special Economic Zone in the former Soviet Union. But while China has already constructed a city on its side, the Kazakh project has been mired in corruption scandals and delays. (Current Time TV)
In a remote desert near the border between Kazakhstan and China, a massive dry port has been built to develop overland routes for Chinese exports to markets in Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.
