John Mastrini is a multimedia editor for RFE/RL in Prague.
An extraordinary nonagenarian from Ukraine extols the virtues of yoga at any age.
French oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau has arrived in Russia to help free dozens of whales captured for a failed business venture.
Flying predators keep Moscow's presidential citadel free from gold-pecking crows. They are the real hawks in the Kremlin.
Towns and villages across large parts of Iran have been deluged over the past two weeks in the heaviest flooding the country has seen in at least a decade.
War has driven more than a million people from their homes in eastern Ukraine since 2014. Many of them want to vote in Ukraine's upcoming presidential elections, but it is not so easy.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his long-awaited report on his investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. We have this overview of what the probe has uncovered so far.
A quarter of the seats in Afghanistan's parliament must be held by women. Those who run for office say it is still a man's world, as women face harassment on the campaign trail.
A major U.S. investor in Russia is potentially facing a long jail sentence after being arrested on financial fraud charges. It's the latest case to shock an already wary foreign investment community in Moscow.
After a house fire killed five girls as their parents worked, mothers across Kazakhstan have been demanding more action to help struggling families.
Police in Pakistan accused a small boy of shooting at a police van. He was just 15 months old at the time of the purported incident. Senior investigators are now doubting it happened.
Thirty years ago on February 15, the last Soviet soldiers left Afghanistan after a disastrous operation to prop up a Marxist regime. It set off a chain of events still being felt today.
Thousands of families remain displaced nearly five years after Pakistan's military offensive against militants in North Waziristan. Officials are defending conditions at the Bakakhel Camp.
Traditional Ukrainian postoli shoes are becoming a rare commodity as one of the last Carpathian Hutsul shoemakers struggles to continue the craft.
Human rights lawyer Lilya Gemedzhi defends Crimean Tatars against persecution in Russia-annexed Crimea. Wearing a hijab in court, she is a rare sight, and a hero to her clients and her four children.
An artist in Pakistan uses thousands of pencils to create new objects. He hopes his massive garden swing will etch his name in the record books.
Kazakhs mourned the death of a wildlife ranger who sought to protect the rare Saiga antelope. He was killed in the line of duty.
Daily life can be a real slog for residents of Chukotka, Russia's easternmost region, a frozen wasteland within sight of Alaska.
A new law against spitting, with fines up to a third of the average salary, has some people spitting mad in Kyrgyzstan.
A IT instructor in Serbia has been shortlisted among the 50 educators nominated for the Varkey Global Teacher Prize.
For centuries, artisans have been making fine Persian rugs by hand in Kashan. Afghan migrants have become the heart of the industry, but as many leave Iran, the future of the craft is in doubt.
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