Focus

Alexandra West writes about Southeast Europe's first-ever EuroPride, which against threats of being cancelled took place in September this year.

On 12 October Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič were murdered outside one of Bratislava's few LGBTQI-friendly bars.

Sydney Millar on the recent exodus of Russian men to the Central Asian states as Vladimir Putin has announced partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine.

Niels van der Togt on the recent General Election in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Three Sea Initiative's annual summit, the first one since Russia’s invasion, might prove a turning point for the initiative, and a new opportunity for the EU’s energy strategy.

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

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

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.

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

If Gorbachev is remembered only for the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia may never escape from the clutches of autocracy, writes Hugo Blewett-Mundy.