Wojtek Grojec is a graphics and data editor in the Central Newsroom of RFE/RL in Prague.
As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined. The United States has just staked its own claim -- and it did so in a way that’s raising lots of questions.
An interactive map of how territorial control has changed hands in Ukraine over the past year
Russia has erected hundreds of tents at three new encampments in Belarus, satellite images obtained by RFE/RL show. Is it an indication that a new invasion into Ukraine from Belarus is in the offing? Or something else?