Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the monthlong fast of Ramadan.
Nine victims from an attack on a school in the capital of the Russia's Tatarstan region were laid to rest in Kazan and other districts on May 12.
Built in 1910, the Rajab is Kazan's oldest wooden mosque and boasts a long and eventful history, including a fire, the Bolshevik execution of its first imam, and forced closure by the Soviets.
At least nine people, including a teacher and seven students, have been killed in a shooting spree that followed an explosion at a school in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.
A Disappearing World. I worry about the fate of the people in my photos, from the shy school girls and owner of the American-style burger restaurant to the pro-American Shi’ite Hazaras who have been massacred (even at a wedding) in a bloody ISIS and Taliban terror campaign.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 18th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
Despite the best efforts of Soviets to suppress evidence of the terrible famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, a handful of photographers managed to defy the authorities by capturing the horrors of the Holodomor on film.
The beekeepers of western Georgia who risk their lives for liquid gold
People inspected the chard remains of their homes, schools, and other buildings in villages on both sides of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border after deadly clashes along the frontier on April 28-29. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan completed the withdrawal of their military units from the border on May 3.
Orthodox Christians around the world are observing the Easter holiday for a second time amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019.
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