Exploration

Siberia-based photographer Roma Gostev captures the snow-coated serenity of his city Nizhnevartovsk

Film

The 5 Eastern European films shortlisted for the Oscars

Film

Taming the Garden: Salomé Jashi’s documentary poses a singular question — what is a tree really worth?

Photography

Russian photographer wins Travel Photographer of the Year 2020 top prize

Film

Him & Her: an intimate short film on the complexity of romantic love — video

Music

Australia’s Russian Embassy just dropped their own rock track

Exploration

The memeification of Russian politics: how opposition protests are drawing strength from online jokes

Theatre

‘Culture is worth suffering for’: the rise and fall of Kirill Serebrennikov

Photography

Photographer Marina Istomina’s modern fairytale delves into Siberia’s urgent wildfire crisis

Photography

The story of a remarkable zoologist who lived among wolves in Georgia

Photography

Can photographs document a united Europe? Rob Hornstra plans to capture a continent amid a decade of change

Culture

Fungus: the queer Georgian art collective destroying toxic social norms

Portfolio

Reviving ancient Udmurtian traditions with post-internet art

Culture

Yav: the street art collective running out of patience in the fight for social change

Follow of the week

The buzzing world of Ukrainian contemporary art — on Instagram

Design

Home on the move: the portable Lithuanian cabin that you can set up anywhere

Culture

Russian photographer detained and fined after spelling out the word ‘freedom’ in snow

Theatre

Insulted. Belarus(sia): the protest play travelling the world in solidarity with Belarus

Music

40 years after the New Wave: the story of the music that changed Yugoslavia

Photography

Two weekends of demonstrations in Russia — in photos

Travel Writing

Letter from Zlín: the Czech town where capitalism and constructivism co-exist

Travel Writing

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

Travel

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

Literature

‘Life in quotation marks’: two poems by Polish wordsmith Ewa Lipska

Music

Loveholic: a glittering debut from rising Polish pop star Lass

Architecture

Whose palace? The opulence and intrigue of 4 mega-mansions

Self

Why Russia’s latest opposition protests matter, in the words of the creatives who took to the streets

Style

Meet Misha Fedoseev, the photographer taking fashion shoots out to the streets of Moscow

Photography

‘That’s all I remember of Georgia.’ A photographer who left the Caucasus as a child retraces her steps

Tech

From cassette cinemas to home-made joysticks: how new media revolutionised Poland behind the Iron Curtain

Culture

Russian contemporary art entrepreneur wins state bid to restore studio of 19th-century painter Isaac Levitan

Follow of the week

A treasure trove of contemporary and classic art in one Instagram account

Theatre

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov fired from the Gogol Center

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

Portfolio

Two artists find strange joy in Moscow’s vernacular architecture — video

Architecture

How a handcarved Tajik teahouse landed in the heart of the United States

Culture

Belarusians post red and white pictures online to defy crackdown of pro-democracy flag

Culture

Rage: Pussy Riot drop new video in support of Russia’s political prisoners

Film

Watch Georgia’s 2021 Oscar entry, now available to stream online

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