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Baltics regional editor Maja Soomägi reviews "Border State," a fascinating and poetic read of a changing Europe in the 1990s

Jelena Lalatović takes a close look at the recent developments, growing success, and contradictions of female literature in the Balkans.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In the last newsletter before our Summer break: Kosovo labels two Serb groups as ‘terrorist organisations’, Ukraine sanctions Georgian [...]

Ryan Patterson reviews Timothy Snyder’s “The Red Prince,” a grand historical epic charting the rise of modern Europe through the eyes of a Habsburg prince.

In her deep dive into contemporary music in Ukraine, Anna Mangiullo covers the revival of folk elements as well as the rise of techno.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter: police raid on Iranian dissidents in Albania, President Zourabishvili pardons jailed journalist in Georgia, Tokayev on the phone with [...]

Emma Smeyers reviews Saxon Bosworth's latest wildlife documentary "Mr. Velvet Scoter," a sensitive dialogue on conservation in Georgia

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Pass of the Persecuted," Guram Odisharia's personal account of crossing the Sakeni-Chuberi mountain pass during the 1992–93 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

Alexandra West delves into what Katalin Novák's recent presidential veto means for Hungarian politics and the LGBTQ+ community

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter: elections in Montenegro, Georgian Dream talks LGBTQ+ with McDonalds, wildfires in Kazakhstan, new abortion protests in Poland, new [...]