Film

Watch My Friend the Polish Girl — now streaming for free exclusively on The Calvert Journal

Portfolio

Why Russian indie book publishers are fighting the conservative mainstream

Music

Your guide to the best independent music from the Caucasus

Culture

Are you an artist? This card game wants to honour Balkan women who have changed history

Film

Other Zones: the free film screenings unpicking Tarkovsky’s sci-fi wonder for a strange new world

Culture

‘We use art to cope with uncomfortable situations.’ The collective putting Serbia’s mental health crisis on canvas

Film

A sunny Bosnian comedy unpacks the discomforts of homecoming

Exploration

Podcast on Russian urbanism: politics, power and the city

Photography

‘Who you meet is a lottery.’ Hop on a wild ride with Ukrainian Railways

Photography

Sweet memories of summer in Vladivostok, Russia’s Far East capital

Photography

The gritty heart of Moldova’s DIY party underground

Exploration

Beasts of the Northern wild: coming face to face with nature in one Russian village

Film

My Friend the Polish Girl confronts immigration, identity and Instagram in Brexit-era Britain

Theatre

How the battle to save Tirana’s National Theatre ignited Albanians’ thirst for conservation

Film

Russian Film Week shorts to watch online for free

Follow of the week

How the Ukrainian diaspora denounced Soviet repression through underground postage stamps

Tech

A genetically modified blood sucking leech-phone: the uncanny future of smartphones

Design

Could these pioneering chairs give women the support they need in childbirth?

Culture

Learn to make nettle and feta Ossetian pies with chef Olia Hercules

Literature

A bookshop in every village: how the late Soviets animated Moldovan rural life with books

Travel Writing

Letter from Makhachkala: reforging a new Dagestani identity on the Caspian coast

Travel Writing

Letter from Boris Gleb: Owen Hatherley uncovers the peculiar history of a Soviet enclave in Norway

Travel

Inside the little-known world of the early Soviet Union’s Lenin-fuelled tourism industry

Culture

A feast for the eyes: 10 cookbooks to add to your kitchen shelf

Culture

Bright and eclectic: Art-Pandemic is creating a new online gallery of Eastern European art

Theatre

Albanian artists denounce ‘systematic underfunding’ in open letter as National Theatre demolished

Exploration

The Watchlist: Aquarela is an impressive testimony of the indomitable forces of nature

Style

Aloe is the St Petersburg eco-collective fighting for true connection in the era of instant connectivity

Style

Enter the surreal world of Yumzhana Suy, the Buryatian artist fusing activism and Buddhism

Photography

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

Culture

My dear Parajanov: what Armenia’s greatest auteur taught me about creativity during quarantine

Film

Quarantine dreams: a film journeys into the vivid visions triggered by Covid-19

Follow of the week

‘Slavic Misery’: the Instagram account celebrating Eastern European history through departed personalities

Special reports

Russia Z

Special reports

From a continent in crisis, how do emerging European photographers see the rest of the world?

Special reports

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

Film

The women directors who led the Soviet Union’s silent movie era

Self

#PostSovietSelfies: the Eastern European face filters taking over Instagram

Film

Gogol’s nose and accidental luxury: Eastern European animations at the upcoming online Annecy Film Festival

Media

How a former Vice TV host came to launch Serbia’s most successful podcast

Culture

#Drop33: protestors go online to oppose Hungary’s anti-trans bill

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