Unique and inimitable, Serbia’s Guča Trumpet Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. Now, after a year’s pause due to the Covid-19...
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I have no right, really I don’t, to grumble. As a Briton, I’ve lived in Poland half of my adult life and love the place. Poland has given me love, work...
Roma people make up one of the largest minority groups in most countries in emerging Europe, and yet throughout history, Roma have met significant discrimination, from...
The 20th edition of Fotofestiwal is currently being held at the Art Inkubator at Fabryka Sztuki (Art Factory) in the central Polish city of Łódź. The presentation of...
With Polish-Belarusian relations at their lowest ebb in decades, rereading a 2015 novel by Katarzyna Bonda, a Polish writer of Belarusian origin, is revealing. Polish...
Cinema in Central Asia arrived with the Bolsheviks. Propaganda documentaries by the likes of Dziga Vertov, made in the early years of the Soviet era, travelled...
Still only 26, Serbia’s Nikola Jokić has every chance of becoming an NBA legend. Nikola Jokić, the Denver Nuggets centre, has been declared this year’s MVP (Most...
This Pride month, the Bulgarian LGBT+ community is experiencing an increase in homophobic attacks and bullying. Many years ago however, the country was a pioneer in the...
In the 1980s, before the emergence of turbo-folk — the syncretic music genre that would end up devouring the Western Balkans music scene — Yugoslavia was a place very...
Euro 2020 kicks off on June 11, after a year-long delay. We take a look at the seven teams from Central and Eastern Europe that have qualified, and assess their chances...
Angrusori’s latest album is a mesmerising and moving glimpse of the soul of a secluded society, told through a musical fusion that foregrounds tradition. Angrusori...
Animation in Kosovo was a decade ago viewed as little more than cartoons for kids. Now it is increasingly seen as a valid form of art, and it’s the change in...
