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...
Tag - Culture
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...
This year marks the centenary of the birth of one of Croatia’s most famous painters — Edo Murtić. Over his long and varied career the artist has influenced generations...
A new colony-building simulation game from Serbia, Going Medieval confirms the country’s position as a global gaming leader. When Foxy Voxel published its first...
The work of a Ukrainian pottery master might seem worlds away from blockchain technology, but the Ukrainian NFT Art Centre Bridge is aiming to close the gap between...
One of the most spectacular synagogues in Europe has reopened as a place of worship for the first time since the 1950s. The Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest has been...
Gender is a tricky subject in Central and Eastern Europe, even trickier when legislators get involved. Proposed changes to gendered language in Serbia and Czechia have...
