‘It feels like begging:’ why Bosnia’s national museums are struggling to survive
The Other Bulgarian Women: the show dividing a country
Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest
July Rain is a New Wave-esque Soviet classic about alienation and love | Film of the week
‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan
Our Family Garden: building a living monument to heal the scars of war
Landscapes of power: Detours looks at Moscow through the eyes of darknet drug deals
Inside Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships, where you can peruse mementos from failed romances
‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin
Excel-art: the series taking aim at corporate culture
Party like it’s 1999: reliving Bulgaria’s turn of the millennium techno scene
Paradise hills: the star-studded history and uncertain future of Armenia’s legendary Soviet-era composers’ retreat
The unknown Parajanov: watch the auteur’s triptych of short films | Film of the week
Tchaikovsky’s Wife: Kirill Serebrennikov announces new film project
The soap opera story of Jazz Section, Czechoslovakia’s unintended cultural rebels
Marina Tsvetaeva: where to start with her literature
The women who shaped Moldovan feminism, celebrated in illustrations
Behind the legacy of Alexander Deineka, the artist who captured the USSR’s endless ode to winter sport
‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:’ 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte
Two college friends ponder 30-something regret in Krzysztof Zanussi’s The Structure of Crystal | Film of the week