Self

On the rise: 6 emerging artists on capturing Russia’s political reality

Photography

High up in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, life brings gruelling challenges

Photography

Illusions in concrete: the Polish buildings that promised utopia

Theatre

Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia | Calvert Reads

Film

MUBI is offering a 30-day free trial for Calvert Journal readers

Film

Roma witches against racism: watch ritual spells intended to heal historical trauma online

Culture

Documenting Ukraine’s student dormitories and a generation ready for change

Culture

Meet the Moldovan photographer documenting Gen Z’s love affair with 90s post-Soviet subcultures

Photography

Photographing the magic and mystery of Belarus’s marshlands

Photography

Without tourists, Bosnia’s Catholic pilgrimage site has turned into a ghost town

Photography

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

Style

A poetic ode to a Russian-Kurdish designer’s lost homeland — fashion video

Film

5 films from Georgia you won’t want to miss

Film

Set against the backdrop of war, Tangerines is a bittersweet exploration of war and the hope of atonement | Film of the Week

Culture

This video game simulates the loneliness of a Russian village

Culture

A Romanian art school wants 70% of students’ earnings. Artists are fighting back by showing 30% of each work

Culture

Dictionary of the Queer International: Yevgeniy Fiks launches book of queer phrases from around the world

Culture

Punk Orientalism: how the art of rebellion in Central Asia is challenging the scars of the Soviet past

Music

Goodbye techno: why it’s time for Georgia’s rappers to take centre stage

Exploration

A photographer’s darkly comic testimony to Moscow’s ignored radioactive crisis

Travel Writing

Letter from Yerevan: as the clouds of conflict fade, creativity offers new hope

Inspiration

Endless horizons: a short film captures the beauty and battle of climbing Mount Elbrus

Travel

Amid a mass exodus, could ethnotourism save Dagestan’s mountain villages?

Follow of the week

Making knitwear sexy: follow the Russian label Vereja

Fashion

Polish worker or American socialite? How designer JAN/F/CHODOROWICZ uses style to blend opposing worlds

Music Video

Matvey Cherry’s latest music video is an ode to queer self-expression

Exploration

Build it and they will come: the congregation who created their own church in a former train carriage

Culture

How Slovenia’s government seized its cultural institutions

Theatre

Lithuania’s Operomanija is tearing up everything you thought you know about opera

Culture

‘We can’t stop’: the power couple running the Belarus Free Theatre and keeping Minsk’s critical spirit alive

Media

How digitising Tajikistan’s heritage is connecting a scattered diaspora

Literature

‘I am in my new exile’: Bosnian author Semezdin Mehmedinović on autofiction, the myth of America, and home

Literature

Queer Budapest: new book celebrates the LGBTQ+ history that the Hungarian government wants to erase

Special reports

Creative Tashkent: the people and places modernising cultural heritage

Special reports

Creative Tirana: the people and places revolutionising cultural identity

Special reports

Creative Yerevan: the people and places innovating contemporary culture

Photography

‘It’s a relief to have nothing to hide.’ 6 Hungarian photographers on the power of the female gaze

Photography

Landscapes of Russia: panoramas and cityviews from the largest nation on Earth

Culture

Aliens, conspiracies and Tinder romance: the Riga Photography Biennial launches its 2021 edition

Film

Set in a fictional post-war Ukraine, Atlantis is a dystopian parable of our near future | Film of the Week

Film

Film festival Kinoteka is streaming Poland’s best cinema across the UK

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