Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions League with Milan in 2003, he asked the club’s then owner, Silvio Berlusconi, if he could borrow...
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Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is preparing to radically reconstruct its railway station, and this week called on architects from around the world to submit...
International Women’s Day, March 8, is a public holiday in some countries, an occasion for men to offer women flowers in others, and largely ignored elsewhere. In very...
Serbian pop star Doris produces music that is a deeply idiosyncratic take on pop and rhythm and blues, with a nod to the 1980s and a Yugoslavia that never ended, and...
Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of technological innovation...
Grassroots environmental groups often have a tough time making their mark in autocratic states. But in Central Asia, there are signs that civil society is finding its...
Known as the Pensioner Adventurer, Aleksander Doba leaves a legacy of achievement of which both he, and Poland, can be proud. The famous Polish adventurer Aleksander...
Armenian music is currently in the global spotlight, thanks to Yeraz, a curated album featuring artists from Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. Yeraz is Armenian means...
A museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, has launched an exhibition featuring the work of five female Belarusian photojournalists covering the protests against the Belarusian...
Imprisoned twice on spurious charges by the Soviet authorities, Sergey Parajanov – claimed by both Armenia and Georgia – nevertheless managed to create one...
Some countries in emerging Europe have successfully dealt with their stray animal problems. Ukraine still has a long way to go, but technology – including Tinder...
From Vlach magic to Kleopatra, Serbia in the 1990s was a great place to be a charlatan. Or was it all just performance art? Daytime television in Serbia is today...
