Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fourth week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries,
According to the latest report by Transparency International, Pakistan ranked 124th and Afghanistan 165th in the watchdog's Corruption Perceptions Index.
How one man’s devotion to a 240-year-old church in the heart of Dhaka saved a unique monument in South Asia.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the third week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators braved brutally cold weather and police crackdowns across Russia on January 23 to call for the release of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, a Kremlin critic jailed last week upon returning to Moscow after medical treatment in Germany for poisoning.
Images made by Aleksei Navalny's anti-corruption team reveal the astonishing scale and luxury of a property on Russia's Black Sea coast purportedly used by Vladimir Putin as his personal "palace."
Orthodox Christians across Russia and the former Soviet republics braved frigid temperatures to take icy swims to mark Epiphany. The January 19 event symbolizes the baptism of Christ and the cleansing of the soul at the start of a new year.
Single-person protests -- the largest allowed by law in Russia -- decried the arrest of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny. Navalny has been placed in a cell in Moscow's notorious Matrosskaya Tishina detention center after a judge at a hastily arranged hearing ruled to keep in custody for 30 days.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the second week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
After Belarus (slightly) updated its official crest, we had a look at some other former Soviet emblems, before and after independence.
The people and spectacular cityscapes of tsarist Georgia captured in vivid color by a world famous photographer.
A land dispute between a band of Buddhists and a mining company part-owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is coming to a head following years of stalemate.
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