Few people in Georgia doubt that country’s Fine Arts Museum needs urgent renovation. But there are increasing concerns among civil society that it could be...
Tag - Culture
With the region’s film festival season in full swing, what better time to take a look at some of the most interesting movies from Central and Eastern Europe to...
Sportsmen and women often get a bad press for being selfish and self-centred. Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk this week became the latest to prove that is not...
Hungary is about to produce its most expensive TV show yet, with a budget around 30 million euros. Rise of the Raven chronicles the life of John Hunyadi during the 15th...
Albania’s bunkers are the country’s most enduring reminders of the brutal, surreal and quixotic rule of Enver Hoxha. For much of the 20th century, Albania was dominated...
Nowadays, rock and roll has been dethroned from its place in the cultural zeitgeist and the sales charts. But, predictions and reports of rock music dying have been...
A party founded just a year ago by a popular singer and TV personality won Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. But who is Slavi Trifonov? And why is he so popular...
Young Ukrainian activists have managed to successfully halt the demolition of an iconic modernist building in central Kyiv, showcasing the effectiveness of direct action...
Belgrade is a city of many impressive landmarks. From the classical grandeur of the Victor Monument overlooking Great War Island to the bold, brutalist, and strange...
Central and Eastern Europe can do jazz as well as any other region in the world. These five amazing contemporary jazz musicians should be more than enough to convince...
Kill It and Leave This Town, a 90-minute animated film by Mariusz ‘Wilk’ (Wolf) Wilczyński, has won best full-length film at the International Animated Film Festival...
Next on Tirana’s ambitious to-do list of urban renewal is the renovation of the city’s iconic pyramid, originally built to house a museum dedicated to a communist...
