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New East 100: meet the people, places and projects shaping our world today

From first class fashion to extraordinary art, meet the people, places and projects shaping our world today. Stay tuned for fresh updates throughout 2017

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Yacheyka

Yekaterinburg architects reinventing Constructivist heritage for the 21st century

97 / 100

Alisa Ganieva

Meet the visionary author pulling back the curtain on Dagestan and beyond

94 / 100

SHTAB

The queer communists of Bishkek bringing politics and art back together

91 / 100

AES+F

Russia’s premier surreal-medieval-cyber art collective

99 / 100

Asiya Bareeva

The Russian designer changing how we perceive Islamic fashion

96 / 100

Jahnkoy

The New York-based Russian fashion label celebrating a new multiculturalism

93 / 100

Egor Kraft

The Russian artist breaking the fake news cycle with witty

90 / 100

Radmila Khakova

The Tatar writer lifting the veil on modern dating

98 / 100

Wullfius

Visual art and music rub shoulders in the work of this Yalta-based prodigy

95 / 100

Project Art Beat

The portable Tbilisi-based gallery taking contemporary art out into the Caucasus

92 / 100

Nanushka

The Budapest fashion label fusing high style with functionality

89 / 100

Wonderzine

The smart and sassy magazine pushing Russia’s gender revolution

88 / 100

Delada

A London-based Russian label inspired by personal memories and collective history

85 / 100

Ivan Zoloto

Russia’s DIY music legend bringing strange new sounds to the airwaves

82 / 100

Marfa Journal

The arts magazine by a Yekaterinburg native inspired by a Texan town

79 / 100

Young Russia

This online film project focuses short documentaries on young Russian women

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Nadia Bedzhanova

Shooting today's hyper-connected youth, from Moscow to New York

84 / 100

Masha Demianova and Stacey Batashova

The fashion photographer and stylist duo challenging the conventions of fashion

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Andro Wekua

Discover how this Abkhazia-born artist is rebuilding his hometown from memory

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J. Kim

The fashion designer whose rich designs channel cultures from Korea to Uzbekistan

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Kirill Savchenkov

The Russian artist exploring existence in the post-Soviet city

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Post-Soviet erotica

The magazines and photographers leaving 90s sleeze behind

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MISBHV

Ready-to-wear label from Warsaw fusing imagery from East and West

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Multiverse Architecture

The Georgian architectural bureau regenerating Tbilisi, one building at a time

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Kasia Syramalot

Meet the journalist-photographer pulling back the curtain on contemporary Minsk

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Nikola Mihov

Meet the photographer exploring the forgotten communist-era monuments of Bulgaria

69 / 100

Nazira

6 Kazakh electronic artists as picked by Almaty’s prominent DIY promoter

66 / 100

KOPI

Minimal jewellery from Warsaw that’s bursting with character

74 / 100

Ivan Mitin

The man rethinking leisure, from pay-per-minute cafes to cottages in the woods

71 / 100

Oldushka

The over-45 modelling agency bringing the glamour of age to the fashion world

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Romanian design

Discover a new generation of designers driving a minimalistic trend

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Aza Shadenova

The Kazakh artist whose canvases capture Central Asia’s cultural crossroads

73 / 100

Wiktoria Wojciechowska

The prolific Polish photographer capturing war, home and Chinese commuters

70 / 100

The Deep Splash

Dive into the growing archive of Lithuania’s cultural diaspora

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OFF Biennale Budapest

Celebrating independence and bravery in Hungarian art

64 / 100

Glintshake

Avant-garde Muscovite post-pop for the masses

63 / 100

Boutique bookshops

Slices of literary paradise across the New East

60 / 100

Hassan Kurbanbaev

The Uzbek photographer capturing the essence of Moscow

57 / 100

Poly Chain

From shoegaze to solo synth, meet the Ukrainian artist ruling electronica

54 / 100

Philosophy magazine

The Budapest-made publication unafraid of mixing fashion with physics

62 / 100

Aida Sulova

Bishkek’s pioneering art impresario

59 / 100

Sofia Tchkonia and Grigor Devejiev

The driving forces behind Georgia’s fashion boom

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Alina Philippova

Watch this Russian filmmaker's quietly moving exploration of grief

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Concept Stores

High style meets creative space

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We are not sisters

Slovakia's sleek and affordable alternative to fast fashion

58 / 100

Louisa Chalatashvili

Behind the lens, documenting Georgia’s creative boom

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MATÉRIEL Tbilisi

The fashion factory behind Georgia’s stylistic evolution

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Lithuanian electronica

The DJs behind the best new Baltic beats

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Maria Teriaeva

The Russian musician’s new video conjures a world impossible to forget

47 / 100

Moa Pillar

The intimate and intricate new sound of Russian electronic music

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Volia Chajkouskaya

The trailblazing producer looking to revitalise Belarusian cinema

41 / 100

Maša Šarović

Serbia’s new pioneer of cinematic suspense

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Marta Jakubowski

Meet the Polish designer dressing the stars

46 / 100

Zuzanna Bartoszek

Poland's fiercely independent poet, artist and muse

43 / 100

Manizha

The Tajik singer who found fame through Instagram

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Yugoexport

Art project reviving Yugoslav apparel for today’s corporate world

48 / 100

The Great Fruit

Music video masters reviving retro aesthetics

45 / 100

Też Architekci

Poznań architects bringing minimalist beauty to Poland

42 / 100

Lotta Volkova

The in-demand stylist who sparked our post-Soviet obsession

39 / 100

Kedr Livanskiy

Russia’s new queen of dreamy electronica

38 / 100

Gacha Bakradze

Ring in the summer with this Georgian producer's blissful beach-ready sound

35 / 100

Réka Bucsi

Get to know Hungary's young Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker and her wonderfully brilliant animations

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Avdotja Alexandrova

The Lumpen agency founder leading a new model army in Moscow

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Luna

The Kiev-based musician doing Russian-language pop her own way

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Tima Radya

Meet Russia’s most elusive street artist

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Neva Balnikova

The Bulgarian designer revamping everyday objects into avant-garde jewellery

31 / 100

Scenic drives

Discover a lost roadside kingdom in southern Ukraine

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Lola Paprocka

The Polish photographer getting to the heart of brutalist Belgrade

36 / 100

Agnese Kleina

Benji Knewman is the English-Latvian print magazine you need to know now

33 / 100

Anna Zaradny

Poland’s experimental polymath is conquering the art world

30 / 100

Michał Marczak

The Polish filmmaker blurring the lines between documentary and fiction

27 / 100

ISSMAG

Giving Russia’s most up-and-coming artists space to breathe

25 / 100

George Nebieridze

The Tbilisi native documenting the essence of youth in contemporary Berlin

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Ukrainian fashion illustrators

These designs from Kiev are changing the way we look at fashion

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Dunya Zakharova

This Yakutia-born artist’s pastel-hued world is chilling yet tender

16 / 100

Katja Novitskova

The Estonian artist moving from cute online animals to post-human dystopia

24 / 100

20ft Radio

The shipping container in central Kiev that's the coolest place to party

21 / 100

Water Journal

Meet Edvinas Bruzas, the man behind Lithuania's breathtaking new magazine

18 / 100

Coffee spots

5 of the most Instagrammable cafés from Tallinn to Odessa

15 / 100

Liana Satenstein

The Vogue writer on leaving New England for Crimea and the end of the post-Soviet aesthetic

23 / 100

New East zines

The DIY publishers exploring freedom of expression on their own terms

20 / 100

366 Concept

The brand giving Poland’s communist-era furniture a new lease of life

17 / 100

Katja Novitskova

The Estonian artist moving from cute online animals to post-human dystopia

14 / 100

Abzal Issabekov

Meet Kazakhstan's most radical fashion export, the man who's reinventing menswear

13 / 100

Husky

The Russian musician breaking stories through rap

10 / 100

Buttechno

The Gosha Rubchinskiy collaborator building an underground music community

7 / 100

Join the Cool

The Ukrainian creative collective breaking all the rules

4 / 100

Joanna Piotrowska

This Polish photographer is exploring vulnerability in her alternative guide to self-defence

12 / 100

Marie Tomanova

The Czech artist-curator challenging post-Eastern Bloc aesthetics

9 / 100

Demna Gvasalia

10 ways the Vetements founder revolutionised fashion

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Uno Moralez

Enter the seductive, nightmarish digital universe of Russia’s mysterious gif artist

3 / 100

Oneohtrix Point Never

From Sophia Coppola to FKA Twigs, the musician bridging film, art and pop

11 / 100

Martin Kollar

This Czech-born photographer documents his bizarre ride through an uncertain Europe

8 / 100

Slava Lepsheev

Meet the crew leading Kiev’s awesome underground rave scene

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Kiko Kostadinov

The Bulgarian designer plotting a new direction for British menswear

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Adrian Ghenie

How one painter’s dark vision exploded the art scene in Transylvania

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