Azerbaijan is hardly the first country that comes to mind when it comes to cinema, although it does have a cinematic tradition dating back to 1898, when French-Russian...
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The US architect Daniel Libeskind is bringing his unique version of urban regeneration to his hometown of Łódź in central Poland with a large-scale architectural project...
Let’s be honest: pyramids are not the first thing that come to mind when thinking of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But one Bosnian town is increasingly proud of its...
Belarus may have a puritanical president whose increasingly repressive regime tolerates little dissent, but the gamblers who throng from neighbouring countries to its...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Only Fools and Horses, the enormously popular BBC sitcom that follows the life and times of the perpetually down-on-their luck...
Cold War Conversations brings together some of the most incredible and moving stories from a period of history that continues to fascinate audiences across the world...
Artistically, the Central and Eastern European region has many feathers in its hat, from famous composers to great works of literature. Film is another medium that has...
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, what they get wrong, and why...
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 lost its popularity nor its...
Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load invites its audience to reflect on the banality of evil and their own roles in perpetuating injustice and intolerance. Before Ognjen...
Protests in Belarus since a rigged presidential election last August have been characterised by their creativity. So much so that as well as inspiring works of art, the...
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 Toktarev, better known by his...
