This year’s Vilnius International Film Festival is making Ukraine, and Ukrainian films, a key part of its programme. Lithuania has been one of the most resilient...
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Łódź is nowhere near the top of the list of most popular tourist destinations in Poland, yet the country’s third largest city has a lot to offer. My Polish friends...
The regime in Moscow has been using social media to spread misinformation and to create divisions throughout Europe for years. However, the recent invasion of Ukraine...
The Febiofest Bratislava International Film Festival returns after two years, its programme full of ambitious, experimental work. Conceived as a platform for promoting...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...