Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fourth week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
After thousands of "weaponized" migrants massed on the border with Belarus and neighboring EU countries in 2021, Poland is moving ahead with a controversial barrier.
Russia holds military drills near Ukraine's border, a FEMEN activist protests the military registration of women, and a National Guardsman shoots dead five people in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region amid ongoing tensions in and around Ukraine.
The latest images from agency photographers in and around Ukraine capture the mood on the ground as military brinksmanship between Russia, and Ukraine and the West continues.
Two of Ukraine's most experienced combat photojournalists spoke to RFE/RL about the atmosphere along the line of contact in the Donbas as fears for an all-out Russian invasion mount.
Fresh images capture the increasingly tense line of contact between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, as well as Russian maneuvers near the Ukrainian border and preparations related to the crisis taking place far from the front line.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the third week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
Amid fears of a major new conflict with Russia, Ukrainians honor those killed in the infamous 2014-2015 battles for Donetsk International Airport.
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.
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