A UNESCO listing offers little defence against attacks by regimes determined to destroy priceless cultural heritage. When UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided in...
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The plight of Odesa recalls the addition of Dubrovnik, in Croatia, to the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger list in December 1991 following Serb bombing of its historic...
Hosting UNESCO’s World Congress on Early Childhood Care and Education offered Uzbekistan a chance to showcase its sweeping reform programme on the world stage. ...
That the Czech Republic topped another global beer consumption ranking didn’t take many by surprise. Certainly not in Czechia, a country where pivo is a matter of...
Peaceful coexistence in a troubled world is possible, and an award inspired by His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Professor Ahmed Al...
The countries of emerging Europe are incredibly historically and culturally diverse, while also offering some of the most stunningly unique natural formations on the...
The Prince of Wales last month chose a book about rural Romania, Along the Enchanted Way, as one of five favourites featured by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall’s...
Dialogue between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo is at a standstill, with no movement since last year when both sides signed agreements with the United States...
The Caucasus Mountains are widely considered to be one of the frontiers between Europe and Asia, a place were dozens of civilisations, both big and small, interacted...
April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. We take a look at what the various media depictions of the event get right, what they get wrong, and why...
Each year, UNESCO adds more aspects of traditional culture to its Intangible Heritage list. We look at seven from the emerging Europe which made the cut in 2020. A few...
With a peace deal now in place in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has shifted its focus to the future. Following the historic peace agreement between Azerbaijan, Russia...