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...
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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...
A Polish thriller set amid a police crackdown on homosexuality in 1980s Warsaw sheds light on a dark period in the country’s history. The sun never rises on Warsaw...
Slovak singer Karin Ann is asking all the right questions, and attracting a following of young people who increasingly want answers. The 19-year-old performer Karin Ann...
Consumer electronics were rarely a top priority for most of the countries of Eastern Europe before 1989. Bulgaria’s Pravetz 82, a pioneering home computer, was an...
Afro-Ukrainian hip hop trio Fo Sho has quickly become one of the most exciting and recognisable names on the blossoming Ukrainian music scene. Few would imagine that in...
