Chinese authorities have begun selling tickets to tourists to visit the historic Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar – where they have prohibited Muslim Uyghurs from praying for years except for certain holy days and for propaganda purposes, officials in the ancient city in Xinjiang said.
Kalush residents were overjoyed when their hometown band won the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 16, RFE/RL spoke with Kalush residents about their feelings in the following of the Eurovision victory RFE/RL
Thousands of people queued outside Kyiv’s main post office to purchase a stamp honoring defiant Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island. They refused to surrender to the Russian battleship Moskva, which sank in February
Russian family members of people in Ukraine describe their daily exchanges in vox pops shot in various cities on April 6-13, and share their concerns, not only about their relatives’ safety but also — in some cases — about whether Ukrainians are being led astray by news from non-approved, non-Russian sources RFE/RL
Civilians in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region who have been injured by Russian shelling are being taken to Lviv, in western Ukraine, for medical treatment. Doctors there are able to undertake more sophisticated surgery, and one woman’s seriously wounded arm is currently being saved
Nearly 6,000 orphans have been evacuated from Ukraine’s war zone. They can’t be adopted during the war, according to Ukrainian law
Roman and Ksenia are both soldiers in the Ukrainian Army, and they were married on March 20 in Kyiv.On the other hand,power.Stepan Shpak, a two-year-old boy, was killed in shelling by the Russian Army in Novye Petrivtsy, near Kiev on March 16
On March 18, 109 empty strollers were put throughout Lviv’s old town to symbolize the children who have died as a result of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Hundreds of miners protested in front of a government building in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, against salary cuts and worsening working conditions
Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family left Afghanistan’s conflict, walking and sailing part of the way to Europe. Jan, now 14 and living in Budapest, feels at ease in his new country and aspires to be a professional soccer player