A guide to the new east

Runway fix

7 things we learned from Moscow fashion week

Letter from

Owen Hatherley visits Zaporizhia, Stalinist city on the Dnieper

Stranger than real

Budapest is the backdrop for Hungary’s dark, dreamlike new wave of cinema

After the fall

An Armenian town’s long road to recovery from a devastating earthquake

Footsteps of history

I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag

Autonomous zone

The view from a separatist city in Ukraine

Insider’s guide

8 essential art and architecture highlights of Budapest

Insider’s guide

16 unmissable places to eat, shop and stay in Hungary’s stylish capital

Letter from

Budapest, where the future of the past hangs in the balance

Madstone

Watch the eerie new video for Czech-Norwegian electro-pop band Fiordmoss

On and On

Journey to the end of time and back again in this cosmic new video from Jekka

Mind the gap

A glimpse behind the Hollywood smile of Willem Dafoe

Post-Soviet youth

Coming of age in the new east

Red Africa

Exploring the legacy of international socialist relations with Africa in art, film, architecture and music

Post-Soviet journeys

Exploring the changing landscape of the new east