Each year, UNESCO adds more aspects of traditional culture to its Intangible Heritage list. We look at seven from the emerging Europe which made the cut in 2020. A few...
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Emerging Europe offers an abundance of opportunities for winter tourism. However, as many of the winter destinations in the region have grown in popularity, so have...
Forget Cyberpunk 2077, we have five other games from emerging Europe to keep you occupied. In 2020, one video game ruled the gaming world and the gaming press. All eyes...
A Lithuanian photographer whose drone shots made headlines around the world during the first Covid-19 lockdown, has taken to the skies once again, this time to help the...
The Hooligans, Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie’s fourth solo exhibition with Pace Gallery in New York City, brings together nine paintings and three drawings, all made...
One of the world’s most renowned classical pianists and a UNESCO artist for peace, Elisso Bolkvadze is preparing for a new role, as an MP with a vision for the role of...
For those of us who claim to have “spotted her early”, 2020 was the year Kosovo’s finest and probably emerging Europe’s biggest ever pop star Dua...
A free and independent press is a must for a free society, and perhaps that’s the biggest lesson to be learned in the post-Donald Trump world of fake news and...
Forget Lapland, forget the North Pole. If Santa Claus really wants to visit every home in the world in one night, he should start his journey in Kyrgyzstan. We take a...
Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
Armenia might get its hands on an Academy Award next year, thanks to a timely film looking at the bonds of friendship across ethnic divides, all set to the music of...
Two of Poland’s best-loved cartoon characters, Kajko i Kokosz, are getting their own show. Animation lovers will soon get a new treat courtesy of Netflix, when the...
