Travelling north from the Bulgarian capital Sofia many years ago, researching a travel guide to the Balkan country, the name of a small town through which I passed on...
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The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, or SSEES as it is commonly known, is a research and education institution focused on the central and eastern European...
When Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig designed the K67 kiosk in 1966 he probably couldn’t have imagined how ubiquitous it would become. For decades it was a common sight...
With no shortage of walls to paint on and a welcoming local urban art community, Bucharest has recently been the recipient of several foreign urban art interventions...
LGBT minorities in Poland are consistently politicised and marginalised, with some right-wing politicians even going so far as to refer to them as “the...
There are now three new nesting pairs of the eastern imperial eagle in Serbia, representing a huge victory for the conservation movement in the country. The eastern...
In 1987 Rupert Wolfe-Murray decided to travel overland from Scotland to Tibet. More than 30 years on, he has now written a book about his experience. In this extract, he...
Restaurants in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, are using social distancing rules to become fashion displays for local designers. As of this week, the country has eased...
Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi is set to be one of the first destinations in the world to reopen to international tourists. Following the recommendations of the...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
It is still not clear precisely how many people were killed by communist regimes around the world, but the combined range – based on estimates deriving from...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
