Kazakh artists have for years been making waves in the Russian-speaking world. M’Dee might be the biggest yet. The 21-year-old Madi Toktarev, better known by his...
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When most people think comic books (or graphic novels, if you want to be fancy about it) they think Marvel and superheroes. Or alternatively, the European canon of such...
Criticism of Octavian Șovre, a Romanian referee who asked Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland for an autograph at the end of a Champions League match this week...
Polish writer, columnist and author Grażyna Plebanek speaks to Emerging Europe about her new books, both of which touch on very salient issues in the European collective...
There are more Bulgarians living in the UK than in all but three of Bulgaria’s cities. And yet a reduction in the number of polling stations, together with Covid...
Serbs are split in their opinion of a new TV drama that documents the arrest of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milošević, reflecting the divisive legacy he left...
History in Central and Eastern Europe is rarely simple. The legacy of Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnitskiy – a hero to some, traitor to others – is just one...
Montenegro’s parliament is currently the most representative of all those in Central and Eastern Europe, according to Emerging Europe’s analysis of the...
A new photography installation in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is shining a light on the fate of the country’s old picture houses. If you look through the...
Set during a bitter conflict in the early 1990s between Georgia and Russia-backed Abkhazian separatists, Tangerines has a message as pertinent today as ever: that ethnic...
A Slovenian start-up is taking a radical approach to plant-based, meat-like products. Instead of creating burgers and ‘chicken’ nuggets, they have developed...
Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper has lived in Poland for more than 20 years. His latest book, Our Man in Warszawa, challenges some accepted thinking in the West about...
