When Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig designed the K67 kiosk in 1966 he probably couldn’t have imagined how ubiquitous it would become. For decades it was a common sight...
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With no shortage of walls to paint on and a welcoming local urban art community, Bucharest has recently been the recipient of several foreign urban art interventions...
LGBT minorities in Poland are consistently politicised and marginalised, with some right-wing politicians even going so far as to refer to them as “the...
There are now three new nesting pairs of the eastern imperial eagle in Serbia, representing a huge victory for the conservation movement in the country. The eastern...
In 1987 Rupert Wolfe-Murray decided to travel overland from Scotland to Tibet. More than 30 years on, he has now written a book about his experience. In this extract, he...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
It is still not clear precisely how many people were killed by communist regimes around the world, but the combined range – based on estimates deriving from...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
The streets of Vilnius are currently dotted with giant photos of people wearing highly creative protective masks. The images are part of a new project called Mask...
You need to do it on your own. I don’t have my passport with me so I won’t be able to cross the border. Good luck! Those were the parting words – said in Polish...
When most people think Eastern European literature, they think Russian classics. And while there’s every reason in the world to read them, there is also a whole realm of...
There is no exciting way to start this story. Let’s just face the quarantine truth. Millions of people like me around the world are bored to their core. Yes, my shelves...
