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...
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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...
Over the past few years a number of Central and Eastern European wines – from Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia or Bulgaria – have been making their mark on...
The first wine grapes to be grown on Mars could be Georgian. “If we’re going to live on Mars one day, Georgia needs to contribute. Our ancestors brought wine to Earth...
When most people think of Albania, they probably think of the Liam Neeson film Taken. Hollywood and the media have done a very good job at painting this Western Balkan...
To mark this year’s Europe Day celebrations, a new exhibition has be opened on the left bank of the Miljacka River in Sarajevo, in front of the city’s...
