Hungary is a country which suffered far more than its fair share of tragedy in the 20th century. The 1956 Revolution and subsequent Soviet invasion which quashed that...
Tag - Culture
Filmmaking in Yugoslavia picked up steam in the 1960s. New movies were being produced all the time, often with international financing and sometimes featuring famous...
New research looking into taboo, stigma and superstition surrounding menstruation in 21st century Poland, conducted by the Kulczyk Foundation, a private family...
Travelling north from the Bulgarian capital Sofia many years ago, researching a travel guide to the Balkan country, the name of a small town through which I passed on...
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, or SSEES as it is commonly known, is a research and education institution focused on the central and eastern European...
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...
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...
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...
Restaurants in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, are using social distancing rules to become fashion displays for local designers. As of this week, the country has eased...
Slovenia last week became the first country in the EU and emerging Europe to declare the end of the coronavirus epidemic. The decision was taken on May 14 after the...
On Sunday May 17, Albania’s National Theatre in Tirana was finally demolished after more than two years of protests and resistance from civil society, artists, and...
