Photography

Hometown glory: can photography help us reconnect with the familiar?

Film

A railway romance: Compartment No. 6 captures the magic of chance encounters aboard a Moscow-Murmansk train

Film

The Calvert Journal Film Festival 2021

Books

Be beguiled and bewitched by Dubravka Ugresic’s novel Fox | Calvert Reads

Art & Culture

New Now: a programme of online talks seeks to find answers to the dilemmas of our rapidly-changing world

Art

The largest Russian collection of impressionist art leaves Russia for the first time

Photography

Young and isolated: a candid portrait of teenage anxiety in Russia’s closed towns under Covid-19

Art & Culture

30 years of Tajikistan’s cultural history in 7 artworks

Photography

Bonjour, Parizh: I visited the Russian village with its very own Eiffel Tower

Photography

From amusement parks to anti-abortion billboards, Tomasz Lewandowski captures Poland’s shifting landscape

Photography

The wildfire fighters battling extreme heat in Yakutia

Fashion

What socialist style can teach us in an age of fast fashion

Art & Culture

‘Yet another fish tank’: poets and writers review 30 years of independence from the USSR — in 30 words

Art & Culture

It’s a wrap: Paris’ Arc de Triomphe is covered in fabric as Christo’s final artwork is unveiled

Film

Sátántangó is a 7-hour apocalyptic masterpiece about human sorrow | Film of the Week

Books

László Krasznahorkai: where to start with his literature

Music

Techno for freedom: fly over Vilnius’ socialist-era cityscape with a cathartic 1-hour industrial DJ set

Follow of the week

Follow the Romanian brand bringing a slice of country life to city sweatshirts

Art & Culture

How two sisters are rebuilding Bulgaria’s sunken villages online

Film

The Party and the Guests: the absurdist film that was ‘banned forever’ in communist Czechoslovakia

Travel Writing

Letter from Bukhara: finding the last vestiges of community in Central Asia’s Jewish heartland

Travel Writing

Uzbekistan, 50 years ago: unearthing an East German family’s travel photos

Travel Writing

Letter from Beirut: a year after devastation, Lebanon’s Armenian neighbourhood rises from the rubble

Film

The Calvert Journal Film Festival launches 2021 edition

Film

Unclenching the Fists: a young North Ossetian woman’s odyssey to freedom

Film

Watch Ukrainian and British women directors’ films online for free

Art & Culture

‘We’re still fighting for independence:’ 6 cultural figures reflect on 30 years since the end of the USSR

Art & Culture

8 books, films and artworks that capture independent Uzbekistan

Art & Culture

30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is it time to finally stop using the term ‘post-Soviet’?

Art & Culture

A history of modern-day Azerbaijan in 6 cultural artefacts

Environment

Estonian capital of Tallinn becomes European Green Capital for 2023

Music

Kicking it with Killages: meet Georgia’s laid-back, genre-bending rap group

Architecture

The Finnish-Russian library that united conservationists beyond borders | Concrete Ideas

Special reports

After the fall: 30 years since the end of the Soviet Union

Special reports

This is our Poland: stories of resilience, creativity and change from the heart of Europe

Special reports

Creative Tashkent: the people and places modernising cultural heritage

Books

The literary-musical clubs that sparked Moldova’s national liberation movement 30 years ago

Photography

Frozen in time: a photographer returns home to the Arctic after almost two decades

Film

Lithuanian crime thriller Pilgrims wins top award at Venice Film Festival

Music

Delve into dancefloor magic with Russian-Danish DJ Anastasia Kristensen

Books

‘I’m from a tricky Diaspora:’ 2 poems on migrant identity by Romanian-American Cristina A. Bejan

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