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• September 20, 2024

  Danube Breaches Banks As Flood Tide Hits Budapest

  After excessive heavy rains in Central Europe, floodwaters in the Danube are expected to peak in Budapest on September 20-21. RFE/RL has been documenting the situation in the Hungarian capital, where the Danube has already burst its banks in places. 

• June 11, 2024

  Unseen Persia: Thousands Of Photographs Leaked From Iranian Archive

  Life under Iran’s Qajar dynasty has been brought to light in spectacular fashion by a leak of photos stored in a Tehran museum.

• May 17, 2024

  Mysteries Of The Lipovans, Romania's Ethnic Russian 'Old Believers'

  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.

• May 10, 2024

  On Tbilisi's Streets, Gen Z Protesters Are Taking Center Stage

  Young people -- mostly from Generation Z -- have become the defining element of Georgia's protests, providing energy, numbers on the streets, and, in some cases, inspiration for their elders.

• January 24, 2024

  Lenin In Hell: The Communists Depicted Burning In Georgia's Churches

  After an uproar over a depiction of Josef Stalin in Tbilisi's cathedral, interest has spiked in some of the vengeful paintings of Soviet leaders inside churches in Georgia.

• December 15, 2023

  Unseen Images From Georgia's Civil War Discovered In A Flea Market

  A young Tbilisi historian has sparked national discussion after finding hundreds of photos of Georgia's turbulent 1990s.

• October 29, 2023

  Earning The Ropes: The Armenian School Growing And Selling Its Own Food

  In a village school near Yerevan, the curriculum includes the life lessons of selling food that was grown and processed on site.

• October 05, 2023

  Inside The Program To Dismantle Ukraine's Nuclear Weapons

  Amateur photos images reveal the years-long process to demolish and remove one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals.

• October 02, 2023

  Who Was Who? The Key Players In Russia's Dramatic October 1993 Showdown

  A look back at the key players in the violent constitutional crisis that helped set Russia's course for decades to come.

• October 02, 2023

  Blood On The Streets: Russia's Constitutional Crisis, 30 Years Later

  Thirty years ago, Russia faced a constitutional crisis that marked a key turning point in Russia's post-Soviet development.

• September 27, 2023

  Serving Under Siege: The Ukrainian Supplying His Frontline Hometown

  As invading Russian forces approached in February 2022, Oleksiy Savkevych and his family fled eastern Ukraine. But after sending his wife and children to Germany, Savkevych returned to his embattled hometown to work as a volunteer. "I needed to be in Avdiyivka, I couldn't be anywhere else," he said.

• July 17, 2023

  Western Balkan Leaders Meet In Tirana Ahead Of October Summit On EU Membership Bids

  EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said that the European Union is committed to the rapid implementation of the region's growth strategy after meeting in Tirana on July 17 with top government officials from five Balkan countries that want to become members of the EU.

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