Surprising photos of soldiers in Almaty wearing UN peacekeeping helmets spark a response from the United Nations.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the first week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
A Vladivostok photographer is documenting the haunting phenomenon of North Korean fishing vessels drifting onto Russia's Primorsky Krai coastline.
Images released by the Russian military show troops departing for Kazakhstan amid deadly anti-government protests in the Central Asian country. January 6 also saw scores of unidentified military personnel shooting automatic weapons in downtown Almaty.
Protests in Kazakhstan that first broke out on January 2 after a sharp hike in prices for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are intensifying. On January 5, a government building was set ablaze, and military vehicles moved into downtown Almaty.
A folder in Ukraine's KGB Archive reveals the glittering wealth, and shocking punishment dealt out to an allegedly corrupt fruit merchant in Kyiv.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the last week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
Some of the photos compiled over decades of work by Russia's Memorial International, which was ordered to be "liquidated" by the country's Supreme Court on December 28.
An ancient symbolic art form has gained Ukraine its latest place on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 51st week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
2021: The Year's Best From RFE/RL's Photographers
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are observed in our broadcast region, we talked to Eugen Tomiuc from RFE/RL's Central Newsroom about the way Christmas is celebrated in Romania.
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