Over the past few years the three Baltic states have all realised – to varying degrees – that there is a wealth of unexploited tourist potential residing in the myriad of manor houses present in the region. In 2018, to mark European Year of...
Culture
No healthcare service in the world – regardless of how well funded or well run – has been able to cope fully with the added pressure brought about in recent months...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was until recently the last leading opposition figure in Belarus to be both free and still in the country. Two weeks ago, however, the...
A strange thing happened in Belgrade in November of 2014, the kind of thing that can really only occur in a post-socialist country. On the evening of November 21...
A new online exhibition curated by the UK Migration Museum highlights the role of migrant workers in the National Health Service (NHS), of which almost 21,000 are from...
While the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works of many cultural events, a lot of international film festivals are soldiering on — some only online, some...
With war currently raging in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, there has probably never been a better time to watch a much-overlooked film about a much-overlooked...
That Estonia leads emerging Europe in a number of fields, from digital government to fintech, is not news to regular readers of these pages. Indeed, so much best...
Albert Camus, one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers but – in his youth – a distinctly average goalkeeper, once wrote: “only in a football stadium...
The food in emerging Europe is good, and don’t let anyone ever tell you any different. Internationally, however, Central and Eastern European cuisine has not quite...
A new Slovak bill limiting access to abortion – proposed by the populist OĽaNO (Ordinary People) party MP Anna Záborská – adds to a heap of similar laws that...
Back in 1920, the science fiction drama Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti or Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R), written by Czech Karel Čapek successfully captivated audiences...
