Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 13th week of 2018.
Vodyane village, in Ukraine's Donetsk oblast, lies less than a kilometer from the positions of Russia-backed separatists. Despite the nearly daily firefights, 10 locals (and 30 goats) have decided to stay.
Yuri Gagarin died 50 years ago, on March 27, 1968, less than seven years after he made history by becoming the first person to fly into space.
At least 64 people are dead after a fire raced through a busy shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, prompting panicked visitors to jump from windows as flames and smoke filled parts of the building.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 12th week of 2018.
Once a sleepy resort town, Shyrokyne, on the Sea of Azov, is now one of the hottest points of the Ukraine war. RFE/RL photojournalist Andriy Dubchak visited the beach village that has now become a militarized ghost town.
As media in Russia's big cities trained their lenses on voters and ballot boxes, photographer Dmitry Markov took a stroll through the sunshine in the small town of Pskov in the country's west to see what else was going on.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 11th week of 2018.
The photographer using an iPhone to document life on the margins of Russian society
Russia holds a presidential election on March 18 but voting started early in the flat, snow-covered expanses of the Siberian Arctic, home to the nomadic Nenets people who herd reindeer.
With long-delayed reforms to Ukraine's creaking health-care system set to be rolled out, Reuters photographer Gleb Garanich documented the conditions currently faced by one rural doctor.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 10th week of 2018.
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