Artistically, the Central and Eastern European region has many feathers in its hat, from famous composers to great works of literature...
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April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. We take a look at what the various media depictions of the event get right...
Polish journalist David Warszawski takes a critical look at Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper’s new book, Our Man in Warszawa: How...
Oskar Żyndul is the organiser of a campaign determined to shake up what he feels is the often lazy – and heavily contested –...
It’s been almost 30 years since turbo-folk emerged as the premier cultural product of the Western Balkans, and since then it has neither...
Sixty years on from the first manned space flight the journey of Yuri Gagarin around the Earth retains an importance that transcends...
Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load invites its audience to reflect on the banality of evil and their own roles in perpetuating injustice and...
Protests in Belarus since a rigged presidential election last August have been characterised by their creativity. So much so that as well...
There was good news for football fans this week when UEFA announced that fans will be allowed to attend this year’s European football...
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...
When most people think comic books (or graphic novels, if you want to be fancy about it) they think Marvel and superheroes. Or...
Criticism of Octavian Șovre, a Romanian referee who asked Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland for an autograph at the end of a Champions...
Polish writer, columnist and author Grażyna Plebanek speaks to Emerging Europe about her new books, both of which touch on very salient...