A winter storm hurled valuable chunks of fossilized tree resin onto a beach in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, sparking a rush to collect the "Baltic gold."
Fears for a legendary art collection in the desert town of Nukus led to activists and volunteers preserving the treasures with photographs on a new website.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the second week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
Eduard Florin Niga says a Romanian childhood, police training, and his toddler's curiosity all contributed to his beguiling closeups of ants and other insects.
Scenes of foreign troops and fire damage in Almaty, one week after the massive unrest that swept Kazakhstan, sparked by a hike in gas prices.
Photographs and thousands of documents casting light on the fate of Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned in the gulag have been published online, with many more to follow.
In the wake of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's order to extinguish the flaming Darvaza gas crater, photographer Amos Chapple recalls visiting the site before it became one of Turkmenistan's most famous tourist destinations.
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.
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