The Ludwig Museum, one of the most important contemporary art venues in Budapest, recently censored (or, as the author stresses, self-censored), a controversial portrait...
Tag - Culture
The Eurovision Song Contest was established in 1956 to unite European countries after the devastation of the Second World War. In recent years, it has done exactly the...
After living in Poland’s capital Warsaw for almost a decade, I finally made my way to Poznań. It was a trip which was long overdue. The city itself is beautiful:...
More than 30 years on, there is still no official death toll from the explosion which took place on the night of April 26, 1986, at the Soviet nuclear power plant at...
Over the past few years a number of Central and Eastern European wines – from Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia or Bulgaria – have been making their mark on...
The first wine grapes to be grown on Mars could be Georgian. “If we’re going to live on Mars one day, Georgia needs to contribute. Our ancestors brought wine to Earth...
When most people think of Albania, they probably think of the Liam Neeson film Taken. Hollywood and the media have done a very good job at painting this Western Balkan...
To mark this year’s Europe Day celebrations, a new exhibition has be opened on the left bank of the Miljacka River in Sarajevo, in front of the city’s...
Travelling the world on business can often be a challenge for a vegan. Conference organisers hardly ever offer meat and dairy-free options, and there’s usually...
Sixty-year old Joanna (Asia) Pajkowska last week became the first Polish woman to circumnavigate the globe non-stop. “Ms Pajkowska is one of the most experienced ocean...
A new exhibition has opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, providing an overview of painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography and film from the...
On May 3, 1791, the Great Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted a Constitution, which combined a monarchic republic with a clear division of executive...
