Stuart Greer is a multimedia editor for RFE/RL.
Three friends in Kyrgyzstan's capital hated seeing the pollution caused by plastic waste, so they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has won the Sakharov Prize, a prestigious honor awarded by the European Parliament for human rights defenders. Navalny has targeted Russia's elite with anti-corruption investigations, but is now in prison on charges widely seen as politically motivated.
COVID-19 cases are growing fast in Russia and the situation is becoming dire in some regions. The country reported a record 18,283 new cases on October 30. There are shortages of medical supplies and personnel in a number of cities. And some morgues are full of bodies, with not enough pathologists to handle the dead.
What might have put a target on Aleksei Navalny's back?
Russian medical workers in the city of Ufa say authorities are underreporting the real number of COVID-19 cases as they struggle to deal with an outbreak of a mysterious pneumonia that has "soared to a terrifying level."
It was supposed to be an art exhibit celebrating female freedom of expression in Kyrgyzstan. But authorities have censored controversial exhibits and the museum's female director has resigned after receiving death threats.
After five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, the port of Mariupol is struggling to survive. With the loss of coal exports and Russia choking access to the Sea of Azov, the port's maritime traffic has been cut in half. But Mariupol hopes Chinese investment can revive its sinking fortunes.
When a flier's overweight cat was refused by a Russian airline, he hatched what he thought would be a purr-fect plan using a feline double.
There are calls for a probe into the management of St. Petersburg State University after a prominent professor and Napoleon expert reportedly confessed to killing a former student.
Some 10,000 people a day cross a collapsed bridged across the front line in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
A former Russian National Guardsman could face a 6-year prison sentence for resisting arrest during a crackdown on a Moscow protest.
A Russian election observer was assaulted at a polling station after raising concerns about potential fraud during the September 8 vote for governor of St. Petersburg.
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk.
Ukrainian voters had high expectations after appearing to give President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's party an unprecedented majority in parliament to tackle corruption and end the war against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised "victory over corruption" after his political party was on course to win a majority in the new parliament. Zelenskiy is a former actor and he has invited a start-up party led by Ukraine’s biggest pop-music star to begin coalition talks.
A Kazakh man discovers a Stalin-era mass grave in his backyard.
A Ukrainian woman who spent years running a kindergarten has turned her passion for rapping into a new career.
A Chechen man helps Russians locate and repair their family graves in Grozny's war-scarred and neglected Christian cemetery.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv helped create Eva.Stories, the viral Instagram project that brought a Holocaust victim's diary to social media. But filming amid the Ukrainian presidential election campaign in March presented some challenges.
