Two cities in emerging Europe will be European Capitals of Culture in 2023: Veszprém in Hungary and Timișoara in Romania. The first of the pair to kick off its cultural...
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Our reading this year included personal stories from Albania, Hungary and Romania, and a fictional telling of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution. Free. Coming of Age at the End...
Craig Turp takes the fast train to Samarkand, home of Uzbekistan’s most memorable sights and the country’s tastiest plov. It’s lunchtime at a busy conference centre in...
The latest film from director Evgeny Afineevsky blends personal accounts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with remarkable first-hand footage to tell a story of...
An insightful Netflix documentary provides much needed background to current events in Ukraine, and clues as to why a once divided country has united to fight the...
The Eurovision Song Contest is more popular than ever, but the increasingly high costs of staging the event risk leaving smaller, poorer countries unable to pay the...
‘This programme is an act of defiance, a challenge to those who would curtail free expression and the tolerant exchange of ideas, and a catalyst for global...
A new book looks at the complex past of one of Europe’s most simple dishes: Romania’s once ubiquitous mămăligă. Apparently, these are good times for mămăligă, a simple...
It’s one of the more left field music releases of the year, but Sound of Freedom – an album that samples speeches of autocratic rulers – is a timely...
If referring to emerging Europe as ‘Eastern’ Europe reinforces Cold War-era stereotypes irrelevant in the 21st century, is the idea of classifying nations as...
Each September, the Lithuanian city of Kaunas celebrates George Mačiūnas, the founder of the Fluxus art movement, which believes that art can be anywhere and belong to...
Poland’s kabarety, not to be confused with cabaret, are a unique cultural phenomenon used to criticise the country’s government even during its most...
