Before Covid-19, Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp rarely walked anywhere. Now, he writes, its his favourite form of transportation, even in a city as ill...
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Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine’s most successful football club since independence, continues to live in exile, with little hope of returning home anytime soon. Just over a...
A group of comedians have spent the last decade creating a small but vibrant standup scene in the Serbian capital Belgrade. It’s 8:30 pm on a Wednesday and the Ben Akiba...
She’s been called the most famous French artist you’ve never heard of, but Sylvie Vartan has never forgotten her Bulgarian and Armenian roots. Sylvie Vartan...
A Polish thriller set amid a police crackdown on homosexuality in 1980s Warsaw sheds light on a dark period in the country’s history. The sun never rises on Warsaw...
Slovak singer Karin Ann is asking all the right questions, and attracting a following of young people who increasingly want answers. The 19-year-old performer Karin Ann...
The Ukrainian community in Brazil is the third largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world. Any travellers heading deep into the southern Brazilian state of Paraná will...
Solidarity Community is battling to advance the cause of Georgia’s Muslims, and to change public perceptions about a heritage long seen as foreign. Georgia is an...
Consumer electronics were rarely a top priority for most of the countries of Eastern Europe before 1989. Bulgaria’s Pravetz 82, a pioneering home computer, was an...
Tbilisi’s Armenian heritage is danger of being forgotten entirely, but there is some hope. Armenian intellectuals, wealthy merchants and leading cultural figures...
Afro-Ukrainian hip hop trio Fo Sho has quickly become one of the most exciting and recognisable names on the blossoming Ukrainian music scene. Few would imagine that in...
The jewel in the crown of Warsaw’s music scene is its prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, which takes place in the city every five years. Fryderyk Chopin...
