Culture

Hanna Hodgetts analyses the works of the retired Czech film-maker and puppeteer, Jan Švankmajer.

Next week is the premiere of Glasgow's first-ever Eastern European Film Festival. We interviewed one of the organizers, Kirill Kartashov, about dissident culture and film-making.

In the mid-1920s, the borders of the five Soviet republics of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – were created by the newly established Soviet state. [...]

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

"This book is a very high-level look at the culture and economics of Russia, Eastern Europe, and China", writes Katherine Leung.

"Everything in this book looks absolutely rich and made with the most carefully prepared and thoughtful ingredients." Katherine Leung reviews Ren Behan's Wild honey & Rye.

This is another photo essay from our series #Allotherrussia. This time from Istra.

Katherine Leung reviews a book about Roma music in 20th-century communist Poland.

Katherine Leung tries her hand at Central European cooking and masters a classic that you normally can buy at the street corners of any Hungarian city.

Katherine Leung reviews 100 Best Jewish Recipes and finds that making the perfect challah truly is an artform.