Breaking News

Photo Features Stories

Monday 9 December 2024

?
December 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31	1	2	3	4

December 02, 2024
The Spark: How Tbilisi's Street Protests Exploded Into Mass Unrest

RFE/RL photographer Tamuna Chkareuli recalls how protests in Georgia erupted right when unrest after a disputed election seemed to be fizzling out.

November 27, 2024
When Russian Soldiers Toured U.S. Nuclear Missile Bases

Archival images capture the optimism of the 1990s as Washington and Moscow opened the doors to their most sensitive military bases for goodwill tours.
November 18, 2024
The Life, And Nail-Biting Work, Of A Ukrainian Sapper

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service lived with one of the soldiers tasked with dismantling explosives on the battlefields of Ukraine.
October 30, 2024
Divided Berlin: Then-And-Now Photos Show Where The Wall Stood

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.
October 18, 2024
Taliban's 'Photo Ban' Will Be Impossible To Enforce, Afghan Photojournalist Says

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.
October 11, 2024
Mongolia, The Forgotten Soviet Satellite

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.
October 09, 2024
Fit For A King: Authoritarian Leaders And Their Opulent Palaces

What do Ukraine's Mezhyhirya Residence, Turkmenistan's Oguzhan Palace, and Turkey's Presidential Complex have in common? All were built at enormous expense, flaunting lavish amenities and sprawling grounds -- monuments to the wealth and power of authoritarian rule.
October 06, 2024
Photo Archive Offers Rare Glimpse Into Daily Life In Communist Bulgaria

Two Bulgarians are building an archive that reveals what life for ordinary people was like in their country throughout the 20th century.
September 26, 2024
The Unthinkable: What Would Nuclear War In Europe Look Like?

The frightening reality of how a nuclear strike on Europe -- however unlikely -- could unfold.
September 26, 2024
The Last Fishermen Of Kazakhstan's Aral Sea

Life in the Kazakh village where what remains of the Aral Sea still supports a tiny fishing industry and the families that depend on it.
September 18, 2024
Sustained By The Syr Darya: How One River Keeps Tajik Farmers Afloat

RFE/RL photo correspondent Petr Trotsenko meets the Tajiks who depend on the Syr Darya River, a waterway that was once bled nearly dry under Soviet rule and is now under strain from power stations and agriculture.
September 17, 2024
Romania's Transfagarasan: How Soviet Invasion Fears Inspired The 'Best Road In The World'

The Transfagarasan road was officially opened 50 years ago after a mammoth construction project cut through some of Europe’s most inhospitable mountains.

XS

SM

MD

LG