Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. This year marks the third edition of the competition, which celebrates contemporary ph...
Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe is a photography show exploring new visual representations of lifestyle and landscape in eastern Europe. The exhibition gathers t...
Georgia introduced new rules restricting the use of drones last month but before they came into force, Amos Chapple , one of the early pioneers of drone photography, captured the country’s dive...
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/oct/11/one-last-time-over-georgia-by-drone
Either side of the Azerbaijan-Armenia border, people live in the midst of a long-standing conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. In collaboration with Saferworld and partners, local...
Sergei Pavlovich, known as Policedog, sheds light on the community accused of aggressive activity on behalf of the Kremlin According to Sergei Pavlovich, one of the Russian-speaking world’s m...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/hack-election-ebay-confessions-belarusian-hacker
Since annexation many ethnic Tatar activists have been detained in outdated mental institutions, rights activists say Lawyers and human rights activists say Russian authorities in Crimea are in...
Sergei Kechimov, appointed guardian of a holy lake by his community, says the indigenous way of life is under threat Sergei Kechimov, an indigenous Khanty reindeer herder , lives in a one-room ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/reindeer-herder-oil-excavators-siberia
Street protests that began with anger at a new tax have Belarus’s authoritarian government in their sights “Basta!” the placards read. “We are not slaves.” These are the most popular ...
Hundreds attend Fem Fest in Moscow to talk about domestic violence, rape and low pay in male-dominated society After years of operating in the shadows, Russia’s women’s rights activists are ...
Outside the Kazakh capital, Astana, the river snowscape is populated by strange figures. Detroit-based photographer ALEKSEY KONDRATYEV investigated and discovered they were ice fishermen, who br...
An International Women’s Day demonstration in Petrograd on 8 March 1917 led to the overthrow of the tsar The first day of the Russian Revolution – 8 March (23 February in the old Russian ca...
I was already used to abuse, but my post about a Russian military plane crash sparked a frightening campaign against me I can tell you what political harassment feels like in Putin’s Russia. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/unpatriotic-post-facebook-finally-flee-russia
The chaos of eastern Ukraine has taken a heavy toll on this Soviet-era winery, which once supplied more than half the country You would not know from Yuri’s calm demeanour, as he describes th...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/eastern-ukraine-wine-tour-war-zone-artwinery
Andrei Zhukov praised by activists for singlehandedly identifying every NKVD officer involved in 1930s arrests and killings For two decades, starting in 1993, Andrei Zhukov went down into a Mos...
A small group of Buddhists led by a veteran of the USSR’s Afghan war has spent 21 years establishing a monastery in the Ural mountains. It sits on land claimed by a company belonging to one of ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/buddhists-v-billionaire-monastery-photo-essay
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, set to win new term, sings on TV and participates in, and wins, cycle and horse races There is little doubt that Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamed...
Dmitri Isaev is exploiting a legal loophole to help the transgender community from a secret location in St Petersburg You won’t find any mention of Dr Dmitri Isaev’s clinic online, and pati...
Russia and Nato are moving thousands of troops and playing war games in the Baltics, where onlookers fear tensions between ethnic Russian-speakers and nationalists could bring Moscow into direct ...
After relaxation of rules on possession, campaigners await judgment on punishment for cultivation Until recently, anyone caught with cannabis twice in 12 months in Georgia faced up to 14 years ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/24/georgia-eases-draconian-law-cannabis-landmark-ruling
Allegations put protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky and political theatre group Teatr.doc at odds despite common cause Allegations of sexual assault have pitted Russia’s boldest political artist, ...