Kateryna Oliynyk is a digital-media coordinator for RFE/RL.
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.
From the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in Belarus, here are some of the most striking images of the year as taken by RFE/RL's photographers.
In September 1983, a Czechoslovak cycling champion made an audacious journey -- fleeing his country in a homemade balloon with his wife and two children across the Iron Curtain.
The year 2019 saw Russian protesters taking repeatedly to the streets of the capital, Moscow. The unauthorized demonstrations began after the authorities refused to register most independent candidates in elections for the Moscow Duma. During protests on July 27, 1,373 people were detained. Here's the story of some of the protesters who were arrested in dramatic circumstances.
Pro-European protests in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, started five years ago -- on November 21, 2013.
