Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
Three fighters -- two of them wounded in the ongoing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh -- tell RFE/RL what they witnessed in battle.
As the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh rages on, a self-taught artist is making jewelry from weapons of war with an elegant message of peace.
After a Polish law came into force banning monuments that "symbolize or propagate" totalitarianism, RFE/RL's photographer documented some of the country's Soviet memorials. Three years later, he revisited the same locations to see what remains.
Two months after the Soviet-made "Lun" ekranoplan was hauled onto a remote beach in Daghestan to star in a military-themed Patriotic Park, the legendary craft remains wallowing in the breakers, sporting what appears to be significant damage.
Two years after an art treasure with a harrowing backstory was uncovered in the walls of a Prague house, the holder has gone public with the historic scale of the discovery.
Considered Russia's first photojournalist, Karl Bulla created a vivid record of St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, then left for an island on the Baltic Sea.
How a mission to introduce the world to Bosnia-Herzegovina changed the course of Alphonse Mucha’s life.
A photojournalist explains what led to a moment of quiet prayer inside a Minsk Catholic church as riot police trapped protesters inside.
After besieged Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka strode from his helicopter gripping an assault rifle on August 23, some watching may have felt a flash of deja vu.
Seldom-seen photographs from a Russian archive capture the reality of the war that was raging across Russia 100 years ago.
A Russian photographer snuck into the world’s only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle and captured rare images of its interior.
Rarely seen photographs of the David-versus-Goliath fight between Poland and communist Russia that raged on the outskirts of Warsaw 100 years ago
How Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II unfolded 25 years ago.
Chilling photographs shot in secret by a German soldier who took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union
Photographs tell the story of a “forgotten war” that began 70 years ago and has never formally ended.
A life-sized statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was unveiled on June 20 in Gelsenkirchen, a former mining town in western Germany by the radical left-wing Marxist-Leninist Party Of Germany (MLPD).
A Russian drone photographer has revealed one of the former Soviet Union’s mythical geoglyphs.
Portraits captured by an American photographer who witnessed Europe’s wild south in a deeply troubled time
Exquisite sketches and watercolor paintings bring to life a largely forgotten expedition by Russian explorers in the early 1800s.
One of the world’s leading colorists of historic photos fears she will be banned permanently from Facebook and Instagram after multiple suspensions of her accounts.
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