Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Archival images show what some of those inscriptions and artworks look like.
In the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, life continues as normal even as locals say the chances of a Russian invasion are very real.
Ahead of parliamentary elections in Hungary, a group of volunteers are printing and distributing their own newsletter aimed at countering what they say is a government stranglehold on media in rural areas.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fifth week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
A rare collection of color images made by a European woman who traveled throughout Iran as modernization and political upheavals forever changed the country.
In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains.
With freezing temperatures hardening the ground and a lack of foliage, midwinter is considered an optimal time for military action -- a fear shared by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians near the front lines in the east as Russia masses more than 100,000 troops around the country's borders.
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.
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