Belarus

'Masterpieces Never Sleep' will give you the wide-eyed visage of a painting at all hours.

The Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic has improbably survived two world wars, 70 years of Soviet occupation, and nearly a century in exile.

Photographer Jadwiga Bronte visited the "internats" of Belarus—institutions that are part asylum, part orphanage, and part hospice—for those affected by the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster 30 years ago.

Belarus's scars and, more importantly, the heroics of war have become the central focus of a government in search of a unifying national identity.

"I captured the clock on the wall. It stood frozen at 1:23 AM—the moment when the reactor exploded and time in Chernobyl stood still forever."

Australian filmmaker Kitty Green spent 14 months with the activists, living, eating and getting arrested with them. Being a woman, a dissident, or a journalist in former-Soviet nations is difficult at the best of times. Green was all three.

If a few websites in Eastern Europe follow through on what they advertise, you don't even need to know what the deepweb is to hire yourself a contract killer. The sites are offering their services, completely openly over the internet, for anyone to...