Culture

Debates on Europe

Nicolai von Ondarza: ‘Boris Johnson might be the PM who facilitated the breakup of the UK’

Debates on Europe

Lena Wängnerud: ‘Women in politics tend to prioritise issues that are more important to female voters’

Archipelago USSR

The Soviet Union’s neverending disintegration

By Sergey Lebedev

Archipelago USSR

From the USSR to Maidan, a corridor of memories

By Kateryna Mishchenko

Archipelago USSR

Back in the USSR – again

By Viktar Martinovič

Debates on Europe

Vessela Tcherneva: ‘From the citizens’ perspective Bulgaria today is the best place we’ve been for many years’

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Cinema & documentaries

We and our empty trenches: A journey through a new Europe with the International Documentary Festival

By Emanuele Del Rosso

Debates on Europe

This crisis is ‘the dictator’s last game’

Balkans

‘Diagnosis Europe’ – A viral story about heroes, conspiracies & the Swedish variant

Archipelago Yugoslavia

I don’t write about war because I want to, but because I have no choice

By Zoran Žmirić

Debates on Europe

Paweł Machcewicz: ‘History should be about the ordinary people, not only about heroes’

By Paweł Machcewicz, Joachim von Puttkamer

Culture

Zsófia Bán: ‘In Hungary, censorship is done in a much more sophisticated fashion than in the past’

By Zsófia Bán, Rosie Goldsmith, A.L. Kennedy