Just two sides from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have so far qualified for next year’s World Cup in Qatar: Croatia and Serbia. Croatia and Serbia...
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Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine’s most successful football club since independence, continues to live in exile, with little hope of returning home anytime soon. Just over a...
Paralympians from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia, are outperforming Olympians at the 2020 Tokyo Games. While not as widely covered in the media, the...
A team from Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, has for the first time qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, football’s richest...
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...
Despite numerous challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Olympic Games has now officially started. Hundreds of highly skilled and talented athletes from...
For Hungary’s final group match in Munich against Germany at the European football championship on June 23, the city’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, wants the Allianz Arena to...
Still only 26, Serbia’s Nikola Jokić has every chance of becoming an NBA legend. Nikola Jokić, the Denver Nuggets centre, has been declared this year’s MVP (Most...
North Macedonia make their debut in a major international football tournament on Sunday, against Austria in the Romanian capital Bucharest. There’s a major...
European football’s governing body UEFA has given the all clear for Ukraine to wear a shirt that includes a map of the country’s internationally-recognised...
Euro 2020 kicks off on June 11, after a year-long delay. We take a look at the seven teams from Central and Eastern Europe that have qualified, and assess their chances...
As Russia opens a new front in its ongoing hybrid war with the West, Belarus’ national airline is caught in the crosshairs. The European Union told its airlines this...
