Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
His wife wanted a potato pit. But once this Armenian villager started digging, he just couldn’t stop.
RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple takes the hard path back to the highlands with eastern Georgia's mountain shepherds.
The spectacular posters that tsarist Russia used to drum up support for its war effort.
Georgians talk about what drove them to the streets in protests that started on May 31.
The merchandise riding the wave of Armenia’s street protests.
With the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian, many Armenians got what they wanted. Now, as politicians hold talks on how to proceed, those same Armenians are looking to get what they need.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered on Yerevan's Republic Square on the evening of April 22 before speeches by Armenian opposition figures. Protest leaders have demanded the resignation of Serzh Sarkisian, who was recently named prime minister after serving 10 years as the country's president.
Five of the weirdest creations that ever flew, skimmed, or twisted their way across the Soviet Union.
She lived in the shadow of the men in her life until, years after her death, these unseen photographs of Soviet life were discovered in an attic.
One hundred years after his murder, the spirit of Siberia's "mad monk" lives on in the village of Rasputin's birth.
In eastern Turkey, RFE/RL discovers the final resting place of a divisive piece of art that was cut down by politics but may rise again.
A well-known Belarusian photographer took on the authorities in an effort to fight back against the unauthorized use of his work for propagandistic purposes. But expert testimony questioning the uniqueness of his images doomed his case.
A controversy is escalating in Ukraine over a photo that seems to capture the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in a single frame. It could be one of the greatest war photographs ever taken – or a fake.
Thousands of kilometers from the Kremlin’s watchful eye, a plucky newspaper in Siberia is practicing its own brand of independent journalism and running a unique antipropaganda campaign after being tarred earlier this year by state-controlled Russian media.
