In October 2013, Kraków had the honour of being the first city in continental Europe to be awarded the title of City of Literature by UNESCO. This marked the official recognition of the city as one of the most culturally and artistically prolific in...
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Six Western Balkan capitals – Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo – and 400 trees planted simultaneously. One goal – to prove that, by taking...
In 2005 Sacha Baron Cohen put Kazakhstan – the home country of the fictional character Borat Sagdiyev – on the map, with the release of his hugely successful...
In the contemporary horror pantheon, one creature stands above all others. Undying in myths, and undying in popularity. It is of course, the vampire. Since the 19th...
The picturesque Sharr mountain range, situated mostly in southern Kosovo and extending into eastern Albania and the western regions of North Macedonia, is home to a...
November 23, 1970, was supposed to be a relatively ordinary day for the US coast guard cutter Vigilant. That morning, the cutter was carrying a five member delegation...
As Czechia falls back under lockdown, many of the country’s artists are concerned for the future. Czech theatre is particularly at risk, relying heavily on live...
Over the past few years the three Baltic states have all realised – to varying degrees – that there is a wealth of unexploited tourist potential residing in the...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was until recently the last leading opposition figure in Belarus to be both free and still in the country. Two weeks ago, however, the...
A strange thing happened in Belgrade in November of 2014, the kind of thing that can really only occur in a post-socialist country. On the evening of November 21...
A new online exhibition curated by the UK Migration Museum highlights the role of migrant workers in the National Health Service (NHS), of which almost 21,000 are from...
While the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works of many cultural events, a lot of international film festivals are soldiering on — some only online, some...
