Georgia’s experiment with wooing foreign investors to boost its agricultural industry has had mixed results. However, it has led to an unlikely community settling in the...
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Kill It and Leave This Town, a 90-minute animated film by Mariusz ‘Wilk’ (Wolf) Wilczyński, has won best full-length film at the International Animated Film Festival...
Next on Tirana’s ambitious to-do list of urban renewal is the renovation of the city’s iconic pyramid, originally built to house a museum dedicated to a communist...
A band fronted by a Congolese refugee is bringing African rhythms to Kyiv’s live music scene. With a war going on in the east of Ukraine, the country does not...
This year marks the centenary of the birth of one of Croatia’s most famous painters — Edo Murtić. Over his long and varied career the artist has influenced generations...
Instantly recognisable by his diminutive stature and magnificent moustache, Mullo Nurov built himself a reputation over more than three decades of service as the Soviet...
A new colony-building simulation game from Serbia, Going Medieval confirms the country’s position as a global gaming leader. When Foxy Voxel published its first...
One of the most spectacular synagogues in Europe has reopened as a place of worship for the first time since the 1950s. The Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest has been...
The work of a Ukrainian pottery master might seem worlds away from blockchain technology, but the Ukrainian NFT Art Centre Bridge is aiming to close the gap between...
Midsummer in much of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and parts of Poland means Ivana Kupala, a holiday which provides a fascinating glimpse into the pre-Christian traditions of...
Unique and inimitable, Serbia’s Guča Trumpet Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. Now, after a year’s pause due to the Covid-19...
I have no right, really I don’t, to grumble. As a Briton, I’ve lived in Poland half of my adult life and love the place. Poland has given me love, work...