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Hungarian photographer Adél Koleszár turns her lens to the mass graves of Mexico’s drug wars

25 September 2019

Director Sergei Loznitsa on digging through Soviet archives and the challenge of dissecting the past

24 September 2019

The heavens underground: the Soviet Union’s opulent metro stations, from Belarus to Uzbekistan

23 September 2019

Empire state of mind: the legacy of the Russian Revolution in Central Asia

19 September 2019

Onboard an overnight ‘party’ ferry, Latvia’s youth sail into uncharted waters — and uncertain times

18 September 2019

In praise of Libuše Jarcovjáková, the photographer who captured the intimate underlife of 80s Czechoslovakia

13 September 2019

Karabash’s toxic landscape is our future. We styled a dystopian fashion shoot to see it with our own eyes

12 September 2019

‘Our perceptions can be tricked’. Francesca Catastini on why it’s not the camera that’s deceptive, it’s us

11 September 2019

Meet the pioneers running Kyrgyzstan’s all-woman space agency

10 September 2019

Siberia’s mighty forests are ablaze: is photography futile in the face of such disaster?

5 September 2019

Why one Ukrainian artist is turning the scraps of a Soviet factory into second hand clothes

4 September 2019

In rural Hungary, photographer Máté Bartha reveals the human face of a military youth camp

2 September 2019

A year of new beginnings: George Nebieridze’s book ’17 is an exhilarating ride through sleepless Berlin

Rare 90s photos capture the lives of the young and restless in an Estonian border-town

Discover a lost roadside kingdom in southern Ukraine

Eisenstein on paper: explore the remarkable, unknown art of a cinematic maestro

How one Bulgarian writer created a global mail order community of radical artists

These portraits demonstrate the true diversity of Russian society, and the challenges still faced by minorities

Odesa’s literature museum is a radical tribute to the city’s multicultural, revolutionary history

Inside Warsaw’s fixation on the Palace of Culture and Science, the socialist skyscraper in a capitalist city

Anyone for tennis? In Sofia, locals are finding creative ways to save the city centre

On the road with the football fans bridging Moldova’s divided nation

Meet the sisters behind an Almaty organic shop vowing to bring Kazakhs closer together

The inside story of Tatarstan’s remarkable, controversial green urban revolution

‘I couldn’t have made this film if I lived in Georgia.’ The queer love story inspired by traditional dance

Budapest in focus: a special report on the battle for contemporary culture in Orbán's Hungary

Take a moment to reflect on the pristine, geometric beauty of this roadside Albanian mosque

In Russia’s Far East, the Nanai community are adapting to new ways of life

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