Neil Bowdler is a multimedia editor at RFE/RL.
Tourists are flocking to a secret bunker in central Moscow which used to house 120 tons of secret Soviet documents that needed to be protected in case of nuclear war. The site only became a museum in 2018 after the documents were removed.
Montenegrin residents have launched a lawsuit against a Chinese construction company, claiming their lands have been devastated by the construction of a new highway. UNESCO also expressed concern over "severe impacts" to the Tara River.
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has opened a new police command center in the capital, Bishkek, which is using Chinese CCTV cameras with facial-recognition technology. China reportedly provided the equipment for free.
Young Tajik men are being taken from the streets by people in plain clothes and reportedly sent to serve in the army for two years. Sometimes, the men are taken without any prior notice.
Myroslava Keryk was born and raised in Ukraine, but now lives in Warsaw and is running in Poland's parliamentary election on October 13 promising to represent the interests of all migrants, not just those from Ukraine. Although estimates vary, there are up to 2 million Ukrainians living and working in the country.
A working landfill site which serves the Siberian city of Irkutsk has been transformed into a free, open-air sculpture park. Workers at the site have used scrap and garbage to make an army of knights, a fort, ships, and a World War II battlefield.
A new documentary about Renia Spiegel, a young Polish Jew who was murdered at the age of 18 by the Nazis in the Polish city of Przemysl, has premiered in Warsaw. Her diary, which details her life in the Przemysl ghetto, has just been published in English after lying in a bank vault for decades.
Young Afghans raised after the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001 are getting a first chance to vote in presidential elections taking place on September 28. An international footballer and a cyclist, both 18, told RFE/RL about their hopes for the election and for the future.
Hajra Bibi produces handmade sanitary pads and sells them to women in her local town. Many women in Pakistan still use only cloth during menstruation and periods are considered taboo in some rural areas. She and 80 other women were trained to make the pads by an international charity.
Fifty aquatic warblers have been relocated from a Belarusian nature reserve to Lithuania in an attempt to boost the rare bird's numbers. RFE/RL shot unique footage of the venture, which is a joint initiative of the EU-funded LIFE Magni Ducatus Acrola project and the UNDP-GEF Wetlands project.
A man on a march across Russia who says he wants "to topple Putin" has reportedly been seized by masked, armed men. Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East earlier this year to walk 8,000 km to Moscow.
Shafiqa Mosawi, 63, is one of thousands of Afghans who have enrolled in adult literacy centers across the country to learn to read and write. According to the Afghan Education Ministry, nearly 60 percent of Afghans over 45 years old are illiterate.
A new school in a village in central Kyrgyzstan made up of shipping containers has caused a social media stir and has been linked to the resignation of the country's education minister.
There have been jubilant scenes at a Kyiv airport after a group of Ukrainians freed from Russian jails were returned as part of a prisoner exchange with Moscow. At the same time, a group released from Ukrainian custody arrived back in Moscow.
The hit movie franchise The Fast And The Furious has been filming scenes for its latest movie in the Georgian town of Rustavi. Our cameras were there as an armored truck plowed though cars and a helicopter flew overhead.
A Paris housing project named after the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, is to be demolished. Officially opened in 1963 in the presence of Gagarin himself, the "Cite Gagarine" was built by the local French communist government.
Yakutia in northeastern Siberia is home to huge diamond deposits where the precious stones are mined in massive pits which have been dug deep into the permafrost. The Mir mine in Mirny is 525 meters deep and one of the biggest man-made holes in the world.
Paternosters -- continuously circulating elevators without doors which passengers hop on and off of -- were once common in Europe, but have now largely disappeared as a result of modernization or because of safety or accessibility concerns. The Czech capital, Prague, still has 28 working paternosters and an avid group of devotees.
Dozens of animal rights activists have protested in the Iranian capital against the alleged abuse and killing of stray dogs by the municipal authorities. The protests, on August 18 and 19, came after a video emerged online showing the gruesome extermination of stray dogs by lethal injection. Warning: Disturbing images and sounds.
It's 100 years since the end of Afghanistan's 1919 War of Independence, also known as the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Fought between Afghan and British-Indian forces, the conflict reestablished full Afghan independence after decades of British control over Afghan foreign policy.
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