Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
A historical look at the "nuclear suitcases" that accompany the Russian and U.S. leaders wherever they go, including this week when Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are in Geneva for a summit.
A rare Romanian-produced plane and an Iranian-made car that once belonged to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu sold for many times their starting price at an auction on May 27. Now their owners need to figure out what to do with the items.
Dutch judges viewed the reconstructed shell of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 ahead of a trial for four suspects to be held in The Hague. The incident killed 283 passengers and 15 crew members when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Pakistan and Uzbekistan have exchanged goods through war-torn Afghanistan for the first time. The shipments are part of five planned trial runs aimed at testing the viability of various routes in the region.
Interest in Georgia’s Soviet-era architecture is surging, even as some of the most spectacular landmarks in the capital, Tbilisi, are literally disappearing overnight.
A Murmansk fisherman has snagged a vast social-media following by photographing fearsome creatures of the deep.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 20th week of 2021 from around RFE/RL's region.
A growing photo archive run by an economist, a priest, and a software developer documents the turbulent and fascinating 20th century in Romania.
The Taliban has been battling the Afghan government for control of the country for nearly two decades.
Andrei Sakharov, who was born 100 years ago this month, remains an inspirational figure for human rights activists around the world. We take a pictorial look at how this brilliant and loyal Soviet physicist ultimately became the U.S.S.R.'s strongest and most celebrated voice of moral dissent.
Khalid Hadi was 11 years old in 1992 when he became the photographer for a Kandahar-based Islamic relief foundation. The organization provided financial support to mujahedin warriors and civilians wounded in the Soviet-Afghan War and the factional fighting that followed.
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