Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions...
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Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is preparing to radically reconstruct its railway station, and this week called on architects from around the...
Serbian pop star Doris produces music that is a deeply idiosyncratic take on pop and rhythm and blues, with a nod to the 1980s and a Yugoslavia that...
Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of...
Grassroots environmental groups often have a tough time making their mark in autocratic states. But in Central Asia, there are signs that civil...
Known as the Pensioner Adventurer, Aleksander Doba leaves a legacy of achievement of which both he, and Poland, can be proud. The famous Polish...
Armenian music is currently in the global spotlight, thanks to Yeraz, a curated album featuring artists from Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. Yeraz...
Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was the first woman to open the Bayreuth Festival. She is now set to become the first female conductor of an Italian...
A museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, has launched an exhibition featuring the work of five female Belarusian photojournalists covering the protests...
Some countries in emerging Europe have successfully dealt with their stray animal problems. Ukraine still has a long way to go, but technology...
From Vlach magic to Kleopatra, Serbia in the 1990s was a great place to be a charlatan. Or was it all just performance art? Daytime television in...
The Romanian Ion Pacepa, the highest-ranking spy chief ever to defect from a Warsaw Pact country to the United States, died on February 14 at the age...
While happy to exploit the tourism potential of the Ottoman heritage in their biggest cities, countries in the Balkans are less keen to preserve...
