Rare photos of Poles in 1970s Britain chronicle a forgotten first generation of Eastern European migration
Director Romas Zabarauskas on breaking boundaries in Baltic film in a decade of queer cinema
How one Russian rock concert transformed into an international movement against domestic abuse
Meet the Kazakh boxing champ mixing self-defence classes with legal help for women
Lithuania’s rising opera singer talks feminist Carmen, gruelling training, and how talking equal pay is still taboo
Director Radu Jude is harnessing old propaganda to celebrate Romania’s forgotten dissident heroes
Listen to Russia’s new generation of electronic talent with this exhilarating mix from #internetghetto
Balkan and botoxed: one playwright holds up a mirror to Serbian beauty ideals and the result isn’t pretty
Discover the overlooked women artists who changed art history in Armenia and the world
Soviet housing is finally getting a smart tech makeover. All hail the ‘Smartovka’
Tashkent’s first documentary photo gallery is striking out into new and untested waters
Hot dog joint? Time capsule? The sad decline of Eastern Europe’s iconic K67 kiosks
‘Of course I was afraid’: 4 cultural figures remember 1989, the year that crushed the Eastern Bloc
As Budapest’s only feminist and LGBTQ-friendly art space, FERi gallery is a liberal island in conservative waters
‘Propaganda is cheap’: what can Agnieszka Holland’s film on exposing Stalin’s crimes teach us about the truth today?
Remember the Yugo? We took the tiny 80s car on a multi-country odyssey from Serbia to New York and beyond
Armenia’s first feminist podcast is fighting on new frontiers for the country’s post-revolutionary culture
Rus Khasanov’s mesmerising paint droplets appear effortless — but take months of work
This artist reimagined the Teletubbies as Kardashian wannabes, and we just can’t get enough
Take a deep dive into the everyday objects that showcase Yugoslav design at its best
