‘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