Western travel writers are hooked on Balkan war stories. Local voices could be the answer
These are the most unusual New East places you need to visit in 2019
Kapka Kassabova: meet the poet re-inventing travel writing about the Balkans
Estonian food trail: a local’s guide to Tallinn’s charming Kalamaja district
Introduction: welcome to the enchanting, enigmatic land of Siberia
Flights: an extract from Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk’s mythical new book
Letter from the Black Sea: what happens when you leave modernity behind and take to the open waters?
Back in the USSR: heroic adventures in Transnistria
Great journeys: adventures in the new east by land, sea and air
