Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
It's one of the eeriest sites in the Caucasus, but widely reported stories of locals entombing themselves to save their village from disease are likely only legends.
A small band of Armenians are working around-the-clock to produce and hand out homemade face masks.
An Iranian photojournalist claims her work has been "hijacked" by a World Press Photo Award nominee.
A Lithuanian photographer recalls the night -- 30 years ago -- his country became the first Soviet republic to declare independence.
Thirteen years after his first trip to Uzbekistan, RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple revisited two of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to find them transformed by the “accelerated development” the country has embraced in order to attract tourism.
Inside the formerly top-secret facility used by the Soviet Union’s space and weapons programs.
A theater in Tashkent has become a cultural battleground between its fans -- including the Uzbek president’s daughter -- and property developers.
Rare archival photographs capture the time U.S. troops and Bolshevik fighters battled each other in the Russian wilderness.
Georgia’s wealthiest man has promised to revive Tskaltubo’s crumbling sanatoriums, but not everyone trusts the deal.
High in the Caucasus Mountains, a former Soviet weapons-research facility now studies mysterious particles streaking in from space.
The work of a forgotten photographer uncovered in a village attic in Moldova.
Russia operates the world’s largest fleet of major icebreaking ships and, in December, the country began sea tests for the most powerful icebreaker ever built. The trials cap a long history of cracking ice for both economic and military advantage in arctic waters.
Photographer Amos Chapple took a "night-mode" enabled smartphone camera to document life in Russia’s north through the polar night.
After RFE/RL broke the story of a secret hoard of photographs discovered in a St. Petersburg attic in 2017, the photographs of Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) have become an international sensation.
Inside the spectacular aircraft reserved for the most famous, and infamous, heads of state.
An archive of thousands of images of the Soviet Union's 1939 invasion of Finland have been scanned and digitized, revealing the harrowing human details of the David vs. Goliath struggle.
Gruesome images published, then edited, then erased by Tajik officials have raised questions about what exactly transpired during a reported terror attack on a remote border post.
Abandoned photographs found on the front line of the Ukraine conflict reveal intimate moments of life before the war. Now the Australian photojournalist who discovered them hopes he can return the photos to their owners.
Secretly taken photographs, some published here for the first time, show the lengths Czechoslovakia’s communist authorities went to to spy on their own citizens.
Georgian tea was once among the finest in the world. Then Soviet planners drove up production and ruined its reputation. Now, it’s making a comeback.
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