Let's say you're a cultural attaché working at an American embassy in a country whose relations with the United States have cooled of late. What better way to change the atmosphere—and spice things up ...

The annual contest held in memory of Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist with the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group who was killed near Donetsk in the summer of 2014, traditionally launches on his birthday, ...

Some 20 activists in matching uniform jackets and camouflage from a little-known non-governmental organization called "Officers of Russia" stand outside the doors of the Lumiere Brothers Gallery close ...

A controversial Moscow photography exhibition that critics say amounts to "child pornography" has been closed down following a protest by conservative activists. Anton Tsvetkov, a member of Russia's ...

We came across a fascinating collection of photos of Moscow captured during the early 1900s, organized in an interactive map by Old Moscow Photography. The user-generated site has thousands of images ...

Frequent readers of this blog might know that I have a minor-grade obsession with European subway station architecture. They are far, far deeper than any American subway stations, plumped deep into ...

Important note: this job description is written in English, the working language of AFP. A Russian translation may be provided upon request, but the English version remains the reference document. AFP ...