Self

5 Instagram accounts flying the flag for queer Russian love

Architecture

The grit and glory of New Belgrade’s communist architecture

Exploration

River under earth: capturing Russia’s hidden pagan past and present

Culture

‘An informational catastrophe.’ 100 Ukrainian artists respond to the Chernobyl disaster with VR

Inspiration

I spent 600 days walking the Silk Road, seeing the Caucasus and Central Asia by foot

Literature

‘Warmth shifts moods’: 2 soothing Serbian poems on loss and longing for the chilly days ahead

Film

Tito on film: how the myth of Yugoslavia was built on the silver screen

Architecture

Saving Narkomfin: the modernist building at the heart of the Soviet Union’s 1930s culture wars

Photography

From Trump’s wall to the Hungarian border, Rafal Milach discusses the rising ‘ideology of division’

Photography

Poland is a divided country. We spent 3 years on the road trying to understand why

Photography

Portraits of Russia: emerging photographers capture the faces of a young nation

Self

More connected and yet more lonely: a Russian director explores our lives, online and offline

Film

When 3 childhood friends take a road trip around Georgia, failed dreams and unbreakable bonds arise

Architecture

Georgian architecture studio unveil new coffee factory cocooned in folded concrete

Music

Experimental Russian composers showcase their lockdown pieces online

Architecture

‘What do we have in common?’ 5 radical ideas for post-pandemic cities from the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial

Music

‘Till the end I’ll run as fast as I can’: Czech synth sorceress Never Sol’s anthem for freedom

Music

Queer pop artist Dorian Electra releases new single mixed by Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova

Film

Uncomfortable yet funny, Hotshot is a compassionate film on a women’s prison

Exploration

The wrestlers proving that sometimes, the battlefield is the only way to find common ground

Travel Writing

Letter from the Sharr Mountains: on Kosovo’s highest peak, shepherds are keeping ancient traditions alive

Travel Writing

Letter from Dargavs: life, death, and quarantine in the Caucasus’ ancient necropolis

Travel

10 lesser-known nature escapes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Follow of the week

Conceptual, fun, brightly coloured: introducing Russian illustrator Tribambuka

Culture

Russian artist wins 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award with a tender shot of an Amur tigeress

Film

From the darkest chapters of Czech history, Shadow Country delves into the hidden evil of the human psyche

Photography

A digital photo archive shows everyday life in 20th-century Romania

Film

Set in a one-bedroom apartment in Ljubljana, Half-Sister is a bittersweet portrait of fragmented family relations

Style

Agasshin is the beauty zine giving Russians of colour the front page

Culture

Dragostea Din Tei: catching up with O-Zone 16 years after making Europop history

Literature

Join the first ever Romanian-British Literary Festival

Culture

The Kosovan painter capturing Yugoslavia’s socialist architecture beyond time and space

Culture

Your Covid-19 stories have made this animated Russian fairytale

Special reports

7 days of New East cinema online

Special reports

Eastern Bloc architecture: 50 buildings that defined an era

Special reports

Budapest in focus: a special report on the battle for contemporary culture in Orbán’s Hungary

Tech

Kosovo is being shut out from the digital world — and Covid-19 means the stakes have never been higher

Exploration

12 hours of freedom: the story behind Russia’s first queer biennale

Tech

Kyrgyz developers have created a video game to fight bride-kidnapping

Culture

How the defacement of two statues could lead to Poland’s reckoning with its Black history

Music

Yugoslavia’s first hip-hop breakdance electro-funk band is now on vinyl

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