Known as the Pensioner Adventurer, Aleksander Doba leaves a legacy of achievement of which both he, and Poland, can be proud. The famous Polish adventurer Aleksander...
Culture, Travel & Sport
Armenian music is currently in the global spotlight, thanks to Yeraz, a curated album featuring artists from Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. Yeraz is Armenian means...
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 opera house. Oksana...
A museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, has launched an exhibition featuring the work of five female Belarusian photojournalists covering the protests against the Belarusian...
Some countries in emerging Europe have successfully dealt with their stray animal problems. Ukraine still has a long way to go, but technology – including Tinder...
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 Serbia is today...
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 of 92. Credited by...
While happy to exploit the tourism potential of the Ottoman heritage in their biggest cities, countries in the Balkans are less keen to preserve mosques in areas...
To understand modern Belarus, we need to learn about its past. The greatest war film ever made, Come and See, is a very good place to start. When the Western world...
Best known as the author of Solaris, Stanisław Lem has been largely forgotten outside of his native Poland. The Year of Lem – which celebrates the centenary of his...
Soviet Modernism is not everyone’s idea of architectural achievement, and its historical legacy – not least in Ukraine – make its preservation...
Zbaraski is quirky, eclectic and idiosyncratic – but firmly Ukrainian. I’ll take two espressos. Because I want it like that. So begins Zbaraski’s RnB-tinged debut...
