Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
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Paralympians from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia, are outperforming Olympians at the 2020 Tokyo Games. While not as widely covered in the media, the...
A team from Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, has for the first time qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, football’s richest...
The latest in a series of pieces from our correspondents throughout Central and Eastern Europe taking a tongue-in-cheek look at life in the region. This week, Serbia...
Georgian activists of Azeri origin are collecting signatures for a petition to amend a law governing surnames, revealing the complexities of identity in the region...
The opening of a Lithuanian trade office in Taipei and a Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius last month intensified the rift between the Baltic country and China...
Serbia’s forests face a triple threat: illegal logging, commercial logging, and a stalling reforestation campaign. According to data from Serbia’s State...
Despite initially handling the Covid-19 pandemic successfully, Georgia is now seeing more per capita cases and deaths than any country in the world. During the first few...
Central Europe Polish President Andrzej Duda has imposed a state of emergency in parts of two regions bordering Belarus amid an influx of migrants from the former Soviet...
Uzbekistan’s impressive high-speed rail lines have proven to be a major boon for the country’s economy and an example of well-planned public infrastructure. While much...
The launch of Poland’s national electric car, the Izera, has been pushed back from 2023 to 2024. Since it was first presented in 2020 the Izera, the brand name for...
With great fanfare the European Union announced on August 31 that 70 per cent of the bloc’s adults were now fully vaccinated against Covid-19. But the overall...