Following Ukraine, Serbia, and Romania, here is the latest in our series of five unpopular opinions about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This week...
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‘I passed many villages. Everywhere I heard crying: We have no bread! We are dying! Tell England that we are swelling from hunger.’ The story of Gareth...
Rupert Wolfe-Murray discovers that during the Bosnian War, posters were just about the only way that artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina could protest about what was...
An ear-bleeding mixture of simplistic melodies and lovey-dovey lyrics, disco polo has become a fixture at parties across Poland and a source of sizeable fortunes for its...
To understand modern Ukraine it’s worth learning about its past. Red Famine, Anne Applebaum’s magnificent book about the Holodomor, is as good a place as any...
Skiing is enormously popular in Bulgaria, and its well-known resorts attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Europe every winter. Less well-known is that...
At the Barcelona Olympics of 1992, Lithuania’s basketball team put their newly-independent country on the map. When it comes to sport, the bulk of world’s attention is...
Moldova’s finest Zdob și Zdub will never have a better chance of winning Eurovision. Will Trenuleţul – an absolute belter celebrating the train that links...
Twelve per cent of all adults in the European Union now have at least one tattoo, with the number estimated to be more than twice as high for people in their 20s and...
Given that ski passes in Western Europe are now too expensive for many pockets, we’ve come up with five far cheaper alternatives in the east of the continent. The...
A visit to the former of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena is a journey into a world of kitsch, bad taste, and absurdity. One of the first...
Sofia’s rich Roman heritage has the potential to make the city a hot spot for ancient history nerds, but most of it remains hidden underground, including a massive...
