Streaming service Netflix has added Servant of the People, the 2015 TV series in which Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky – then a comedian and actor – stars as a schoolteacher who becomes president. But is it any good? Even his biggest fans and...
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You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
An insightful Netflix documentary provides much needed background to current events in Ukraine, and clues as to why a once divided country has united to fight the...
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...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
A free and independent press is a must for a free society, and perhaps that’s the biggest lesson to be learned in the post-Donald Trump world of fake news and...
CD Projekt, Poland’s biggest gaming firms and for much of 2020 the most valuable company on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, has been forced to apologise for the poor...
Two of Poland’s best-loved cartoon characters, Kajko i Kokosz, are getting their own show. Animation lovers will soon get a new treat courtesy of Netflix, when the...
It’s one of the biggest Netflix hits of the year. Set in Malmö, Sweden, Young Wallender was in fact filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius...
In 2005 Sacha Baron Cohen put Kazakhstan – the home country of the fictional character Borat Sagdiyev – on the map, with the release of his hugely successful...
Polish game development company CD Projekt Group (CDP), which includes the video game studio CD Projekt Red and the digital storefront GOG.com, has beaten out the French...
