Albania on the cusp of change, chaos and civil war is the setting for the best memoir to emerge from the Balkans in decades. In March 1991, journalists from Italian TV...
Tag - Culture
2+2 = Latvians in Tartu, organised by the Tartu Latvian Society, is a month-long event which aims to promote Latvian culture in Estonia as well as encourage cultural...
Grammy award-winning Ed Sheeran has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists in history. In December...
Black Wedding, a new thriller on Serbian TV, has revived interest in the traditional rituals and customs of the country’s Vlach community. It’s the perfect mix of...
Should Albanian films produced during the country’s dark communist period be consigned to the waste bin? Some think so, but others – particularly the actors...
A modernisation project costing one billion euros is transforming Budapest largest park, Városliget. Városliget, or City Park, is Budapest’s most iconic park. Home...
Reviews of documentary film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and a new history of Romania, Children of the Night. Anyone remotely familiar with recent Romanian...
A dialect is a form of language particular to one geographic area or social group. Most languages in the world at one stage had several dialects, but as languages have...
It started with a Serbian-produced animated series about puffins. It will end with Johnny Depp receiving a medal from Aleksandar Vučić in February. Puffins Impossible...
Across the former Soviet Union – and beyond – vast mosaics remain some of the most enduring relics of the communist era. In virtually every city between...
Before Covid-19, Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp rarely walked anywhere. Now, he writes, its his favourite form of transportation, even in a city as ill...
She’s been called the most famous French artist you’ve never heard of, but Sylvie Vartan has never forgotten her Bulgarian and Armenian roots. Sylvie Vartan...