Eastern Europe

Mathieu Lemoine reviews "Love Is Not an Orange" and speaks with director Otilia Babara about the emotional scars of a generation growing up apart.

Lewis Kieran Barclay reviews "Consul on Ideology: Modern Ukrainian Far-Right Nationalism" by Oleksii Rains, a book about the ideology and political ambitions of Ukraine’s far-right movement.

Georgie Archer reviews Andriy Kurkov's Death and the Penguin and its sequel Penguin Lost, drawing links between Misha the penguin’s mental and physical state - in which he comes to embody the [...]

Flavia Stähli reviews Oana Aristide’s "Astronaut!", a darkly funny novel that uses satire, murder and a child’s perspective to expose the fear, lies and conformity of Ceaușescu’s Romania.

Kai Iliev examines how Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s promise to change Bulgaria is already turning into public disappointment and falling support.

Vladyslav Starodubtsev reflects on the debate surrounding Ukraine’s planned pantheon of national heroes.

Mathieu Lemoine reviews Svetlana Alexievich's “Secondhand Time”, a book about why the Soviet Union disappeared faster than the Soviet mindset it created.

Suzanne Rademaker reviews Hanna Komar’s "When I'm Out of Here: Staying Human in a Dictator's Jail"- a powerful story of repression, solidarity and survival.

Mathieu Lemoine reviews Olga Shparaga’s “The Revolution Has a Female Face. The Case of Belarus", exploring the legacy of Belarus’s 2020 uprising.

Ethan Czaja examines how Moldova’s 9 May commemorations exposed the gap between rapid EU integration and divided public support for accession.