Nowadays, rock and roll has been dethroned from its place in the cultural zeitgeist and the sales charts. But, predictions and reports of rock music dying have been greatly exaggerated. Here, five rock bands from across emerging Europe prove that...
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Oliver Stone’s new documentary about Nursultan Nazarbayev aimed to lionise the long-time leader of Kazakhstan, but has instead attracted derision both within Kazakhstan...
Despite numerous challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Olympic Games has now officially started. Hundreds of highly skilled and talented athletes from...
A walk around the superb medieval city of Kotor in Montenegro suggests it’s business-as-usual for the country’s lucrative tourism sector. But for how long? ...
A party founded just a year ago by a popular singer and TV personality won Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. But who is Slavi Trifonov? And why is he so popular...
Young Ukrainian activists have managed to successfully halt the demolition of an iconic modernist building in central Kyiv, showcasing the effectiveness of direct action...
Remote working – already a trend long before the Covid-19 pandemic – is here to stay. The number of people eschewing the office in favour of working from...
The Baltic Sea may not be as warm as the Med or the Aegean – to say the very least – but the thousands of beaches in the region are amongst the widest...
Belgrade is a city of many impressive landmarks. From the classical grandeur of the Victor Monument overlooking Great War Island to the bold, brutalist, and strange...
The Prince of Wales last month chose a book about rural Romania, Along the Enchanted Way, as one of five favourites featured by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall’s...
Central and Eastern Europe can do jazz as well as any other region in the world. These five amazing contemporary jazz musicians should be more than enough to convince...
Georgia’s experiment with wooing foreign investors to boost its agricultural industry has had mixed results. However, it has led to an unlikely community settling in the...
