Colorized images made by NASA satellites capable of capturing the light of human activity by night show swathes of Ukrainian territory in the country's east and south have fallen dark amid depopulation and wartime power outages.
Small numbers of high-end German-designed SUVs are being assembled at a plant in Kaliningrad despite BMW pulling out of Russia days after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Unauthorized balconies built by residents of the Kyrgyz capital to expand their apartments are being demolished amid government efforts to clean up the image of the city.
Since 2023, Moscow has built up an extensive range of fortifications around the Crimea Bridge linking the occupied Ukrainian Peninsula with mainland Russia. Russian authorities have also reportedly mulled replacing the span with an undersea tunnel.
Recent photos from a key Russian logistics route highlight the growing impact of Ukraine's efforts to stifle Russian logistics.
An art initiative is reminding the world of the political prisoners held in Belarus through traditional cross-stitch embroidery.
Images captured by photographers and RFE/RL journalists highlight the biggest news stories and most captivating moments from across our regions over the past year.
From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever changed the Central Asian state.
Before revolution toppled the Iranian monarchy in 1979, Tehran and Tel-Aviv exchanged tourists and trade instead of missiles and drones.
From the front lines of the Cold War to the trenches of Ukraine, archival photos tell the story of Radio Free Europe, which began broadcasts on US Independence Day, 75 years ago.
With the world's attention focused on the escalating conflict in the Middle East, Russia struck Ukraine overnight on June 16-17 with waves of drones and missiles. An apartment building in Kyiv suffered a direct hit, collapsing an entire section of the residential high-rise block.
Amid massive exchanges of strikes between Israel and Iran, photos from the ground show civilians on both sides caught up in the violence.
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