Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond.
Photojournalists who captured some of the most powerful images of 2016 tell the stories behind them in their own words.
On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus declared that the Soviet Union had "ceased to exist." Twenty-five years later, we look back on some key milestones -- inside and outside the Soviet Union – on the road to its collapse.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 48th week of 2016.
Fidel Castro, the man who led Cuba for nearly five decades, has died at the age of 90. After sweeping to power in a communist uprising in 1959, Castro served as prime minister or president of the Caribbean island state for nearly 50 years.
A dirt road to the village of Khyurdabakh runs under a crumbling wall made of stone, clay, and sand. If you look up, you will see decrepit houses looming overhead. The village has long been abandoned by its residents, except for one woman.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 46th week of 2016.
In Yekaterinburg, a gangland tradition of tombstones featuring bling, booze, and food has gone mainstream. Our photographer took a walk through some of the Russian city's most colorful cemeteries.
Iraqi forces won back control of the ancient city of Nimrud from Islamic State militants on November 13. During more than two years in control of the site, the militants destroyed countless artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,000 years to the Assyrian Empire.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 45th week of 2016.
Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) -- will seal off Chernobyl's reactor Unit 4. In 1986, an explosion inside the reactor led to the world's worst civilian nuclear accident. Ahead of the big move, RFE/RL was granted exclusive access to Chernobyl for a rare glimpse inside the crippled Soviet nuclear power plant. (Serhiy Korovayniy, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Newspapers and news websites around the world react after Donald Trump pulls off a stunning victory in the U.S. presidential election.
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