Slovakian director Marko Škop on the rise of the far right, and how film can help push back
As North Macedonia hosts its first Pride Parade, are its LGBTQ and feminist cultural activists making a breakthrough?
Luc Besson’s spy thriller Anna shows the West is still hung up on harmful stereotypes of Russian women
Watch this artist take to the skies to make a vertiginous statement on disabled rights
Summer playlist: 10 scorching New East hits to bring some sun to your soundrack
Post-Soviet summer: beat the heat at these former Eastern bloc beach resorts
The condition we call exile: American-Ukrainian novelist Yelena Moskovich on losing her mother tongue
Almaty’s controversial giant squirrel is getting a multi-coloured plastic makeover
Supernatural Bulgarian comedy scoops top film festival prize at Karlovy Vary 2019
This Russian arthouse remake of The Simpsons is the most depressing thing you’ll see today
Meet the man who built Belgrade’s theatre of broken dreams, where the Yugoslav ideal lived and died
Here’s why Belarus should be your next rave destination
Yoko Ono transforms a Serbian riverboat into a war memorial at Exit Festival 2019
These artists are protesting against censorship with subversive, Soviet-style X-ray vinyls
Not just Chernobyl: how New East TV turned to the dark side, with a little help from HBO
Romania’s oddball auteur whistles a different tune with his new take on noir
This new book captures the history and reality of the black experience in Russia and Europe
Get your hands on a slice of the Eastern Bloc’s art history with these vintage matchbox designs
‘I woke up’: ahead of presidential elections in Kazakhstan, a young creative class fights for its future
HBO’s Chernobyl tells a version of Soviet history that’s vital for both Russia and America
