Written in 1945 but never before translated into English, Days in the Caucasus by Banine is a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a vanished world. Banine shows us...
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Game of Thrones (GoT) may be over, but fans of what has become one of most watched series of the past decade retain their love of the HBO hit. Croatia has decided to...
The last episode of HBO’s outstanding miniseries Chernobyl aired this week, ending the bone-chilling historical drama. As of today, the show stands as the highest-rated...
On May 12, Belarusians celebrated what is known as the Day of the Coat of Arms and Flag, which commemorates the country’s national symbols. However, while the two...
Back when I was at high school – long before supply teaching became a profession – the absence of a teacher would require a class to spend a lesson or two in...
In the run up to what would have been his 127th birthday (May 31), a ground breaking ceremony took place for the construction of a new museum honouring Polish General...
The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has opened a new exhibition, Communism in Prison, at the Patarei Prison, located in the centre of the Estonian capital...
Rights activists in Tbilisi decided to skip demonstrations held on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) over safety concerns. After having...
The Ludwig Museum, one of the most important contemporary art venues in Budapest, recently censored (or, as the author stresses, self-censored), a controversial portrait...
The Eurovision Song Contest was established in 1956 to unite European countries after the devastation of the Second World War. In recent years, it has done exactly the...
After living in Poland’s capital Warsaw for almost a decade, I finally made my way to Poznań. It was a trip which was long overdue. The city itself is beautiful:...
More than 30 years on, there is still no official death toll from the explosion which took place on the night of April 26, 1986, at the Soviet nuclear power plant at...
