RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service lived with one of the soldiers tasked with dismantling explosives on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Opposition parties in Georgia organized a new postelection protest on November 23. Protesters in the capital, Tbilisi, ...

The violent detentions of brawling foreign university students, including from Iran, in Tatarstan has led to a protest by the ...

Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old Ukrainian woman, spoke about surviving the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed ...

The two elections coming up in Romania should not only set policy at home but impact foreign policy as well, including a ...

Russia's use of what President Vladmir Putin said was a new intermediate-range missile against Ukraine was all about ...

Ukrainian troops have complained that people are avoiding military service and leaving them outnumbered on the front line, in ...

The authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has threatened to shut down the Internet in the event of mass ...

Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport ...

Fishermen in Albania and residents of Kosovo and Montenegro say toxic waste is ruining their environment. People who live ...

Waste has become a major problem in the Western Balkans, with overfilled landfills polluting land and water. In Kosovo, Albania, and Montenegro, waste management remains below European standards.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 47th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive. 1 A Ukrainian man shines a flashlight as he and ...