Some movies, TV, books, music, travel and sporting highlights that kept the Emerging Europe team occupied when we weren’t busy working. Films The New Year That […]
Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly readable work plugs that gap. […]
‘The next day, when the city and oblast councils all came down with bad cases of resolutionitis and started moving to have a referendum, join Russia, […]
Warsaw is a city that wears its history on its sleeve—its streets tell tales of war, survival, resistance, uprising, and rebirth. It’s not surprising—over the centuries, […]
In the southern Caucasus, where Eastern Europe and Western Asia meet, Azerbaijan is an often misunderstood nation of subtle contrasts and rich history. This enigmatic land, […]
Hungary often escapes the radar of the casual reader. Yet, for those who venture even gently into its literary offerings, the country offers (or has inspired) […]
English writer and photographer Alex Webber, author of the forthcoming The Heart of Poland: An Odyssey Through a Country’s Football Culture, believes that the iconoclasm present […]
Since the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2014, and its escalation in 2022, a number of insightful books have been published that provide various […]