As Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine’s people and sovereignty, it is now more important than ever to celebrate and raise awareness of the uniqueness of...
Culture
Dozens of tree-covered market squares in Poland have suffered the same fate in recent years, with local authorities opting to ‘rejuvenate’ them with concrete...
A timely new book questions human authenticity, meritocracy, fairness, and the norms and regulations which will be required to guide our future course. I was recently...
An insightful Netflix documentary provides much needed background to current events in Ukraine, and clues as to why a once divided country has united to fight the...
‘I passed many villages. Everywhere I heard crying: We have no bread! We are dying! Tell England that we are swelling from hunger.’ The story of Gareth...
Rupert Wolfe-Murray discovers that during the Bosnian War, posters were just about the only way that artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina could protest about what was...
Ukraine is permanently in our thoughts at the moment, and to better understand this amazing country we have selected five films that offer an insight into the vast...
Over the past year several countries in Central and Eastern Europe have developed new or bolstered existing partnerships with Taiwan, which are now expanding beyond...
An ear-bleeding mixture of simplistic melodies and lovey-dovey lyrics, disco polo has become a fixture at parties across Poland and a source of sizeable fortunes for its...
To understand modern Ukraine it’s worth learning about its past. Red Famine, Anne Applebaum’s magnificent book about the Holodomor, is as good a place as any...
Skiing is enormously popular in Bulgaria, and its well-known resorts attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Europe every winter. Less well-known is that...
At the Barcelona Olympics of 1992, Lithuania’s basketball team put their newly-independent country on the map. When it comes to sport, the bulk of world’s attention is...
