Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions League with Milan in...
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Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of technological innovation...
A Moldovan rugby player has been the subject of fierce debate in recent weeks following an incident that left an opponent unconscious. In Cardiff, he’s known as...
Coaches from outside Great Britain and Ireland are now commonplace in England’s Premier League, the richest in world football, but just 30 years ago they were...
Under pressure from sponsors, the International Ice Hockey Federation has stripped Belarus of its right to co-host the 2021 World Ice Hockey Championships. The...
Emerging Europe is full of people who have lived remarkable lives, but few are more remarkable than the Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic...
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...
While we all want an end to Covid-19, the ability to travel again and to meet with friends and colleagues, here are five things specific to emerging Europe that we would...
A phenomenal year for a phenomenal cyclist ends with the sport’s most prestigious award. Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (pictured above) has been named as cyclist...
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...
Albert Camus, one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers but – in his youth – a distinctly average goalkeeper, once wrote: “only in a football stadium...
Barring total disaster in a time trial today, the last competitive stage of this year’s delayed Tour de France, a Slovenian will on Sunday ride into Paris to be crowned...
