Ukraine is slowly but steadily addressing animal cruelty with new legislation. Its effectiveness, however, is still patchy. Until recently the city centres of popular...
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Controversial Czech economist and commentator Tomáš Sedláček recently proposed that Czechia should be renamed Bohemia. Many Czechs are far from happy with the suggestion...
Georgian cinema? Go on, give it a go. To make things easy for you we have picked five films that serve as the perfect introduction the contemporary Georgian cinema. What...
Following Ukraine and Serbia, here is the latest in our series of five unpopular opinions about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This week, five unpopular...
Paralympians from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia, are outperforming Olympians at the 2020 Tokyo Games. While not as widely covered in the media, the...
A team from Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, has for the first time qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, football’s richest...
The latest in a series of pieces from our correspondents throughout Central and Eastern Europe taking a tongue-in-cheek look at life in the region. This week, Serbia...
Georgian activists of Azeri origin are collecting signatures for a petition to amend a law governing surnames, revealing the complexities of identity in the region...
The first in a new series of pieces from our correspondents throughout Central and Eastern Europe taking a tongue-in-cheek look at life in the region. I have trouble...
This year has been declared the Year of Rail by the European Commission in order to highlight train travel as one of the most “sustainable, smart and safe means of...
Romania’s Transfăgărășan Highway is one of the most celebrated roads in Europe. Open for just a few months each year, it attracts tens of thousands of visitors...
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the Serbian linguist and philologist, credited with standardising the Serbian language was no stranger to controversy. For including swear words...
