Thirty-five years after the Velvet Revolution threw off Soviet-backed communist rule in Czechoslovakia, we visited some of the sites in Prague where monuments once stood and propaganda posters loomed over passersby.
Brussels announced on November 14 that it will spend 300 million euros to help up to nine EU member countries buy air-defense systems, armored vehicles, and artillery rounds.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 46th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
A group of visual historians have launched an open-access website that resurrects the Romanian photo journal Uj Elet (New Life), offering new insight into the country's 20th century.
Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 45th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 44th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 43rd week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region
Archival photos plot nearly every historic moment of Hungary throwing off the shackles of Soviet control 35 years ago.
The Taliban has just banned images of anything “with a soul,” meaning people and animals. One veteran Afghan photojournalist remembers what that was like when the same prohibition was enforced through the Islamist group’s reign over Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 42nd week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite of the Soviet Union.
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