Located 6 meters underground, the first purpose-built "bunker school" designed to shield students from Russian bombardment is now ready for students in Ukraine's second-largest city.
Several devices designed during the Cold War to kill, injure, or monoitor adversaries might have been dismissed as urban legends if examples had not been documented in photos.
A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Kazakhstan after large-scale flooding forced the evacuation of nearly 16,000 people. The floods were caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a mass snowmelt.
An RFE/RL journalist captured residents in Ukraine's second-largest city carrying on despite the intense Russian shelling that has severely impacted their electricity and quality of life.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 13th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
Enhanced security measures have been implemented across Russia following the March 22 terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow, the deadliest attack in the country since the Beslan school siege in 2004.
Exiled Belarusians gathered on the streets of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on March 25 to commemorate the 106th anniversary of Belarus's declaration of independence.
Volunteers on March 23 assisted people with severe disabilities to reach the alpine heights of the Rila Mountains in western Bulgaria. The climb was organized by the Ela I Ti (You Come Too) foundation.
People continue to pay their respects at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, where a terrorist attack on March 22 claimed the lives of more than 130 people, including three children.
Images taken as four Tajik men suspected of committing the Crocus City Hall shooting near Moscow were apprehended in western Russia on March 23 are starkly different from how the men appeared -- battered and bruised -- in court the following day.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 12th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region.
French astronomer Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche made a detailed description of life in 18th-century Russia as he travelled through Siberia. Now the descriptions he penned and the images that illustrated his book are freely available in an image archive.
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