A curated cross-section of our publication's Romanian language version. Read up on globally noteworthy cultural personalities and societal goings-on in our corner of Eastern Europe.
Indian medicine students who fled the conflict in Ukraine are hosted in a family from a southern Romanian village.
A young woman from Kharkiv speaks about her daily life, the idea of leaving her mom behind and flee alone and the future relationship between Ukrainians and Russians.
We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
Photographer Mikhail Kalarashan is documenting the life of a single mother, a refugee from Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian war refugees have started arriving in Moldova and a camp has been set up for them in the country's southernmost village.
“You cannot imagine what it’s like on the other side,” says Lili, a Ukrainian woman who entered Romania on foot with her son.
We set out through the villages lining the border, in order to see what the locals have to say about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and to meet the Ukrainian Hutsuls in the mountainous regions of Bukovina.
How a heterosexual, Roma man from a traditional community in Ploiești, father of three, came to play the lead in a film about gay love.
I tried to help an Afghan engineer get out of her country and I failed. However, I did manage to get her story across the border.
How politics and religion intersect in the Romanian Christian-Conservative community from Phoenix, Arizona.
For as long as I can remember, I've been ashamed by how I look. And for nearly ten years, I've been oscillating between anorexia and bulimia.
Why do we close our eyes to the facts when we’re told a beautiful story about touring the world on foot, in traditional sandals?
People tired of the din of big city life go to live in an alternative community in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains. Alongside the quiet of meditation, they are served conspiracy theories.
I have no clear ambitions in life, I am convinced that the idea of success is relative and that the formulas for happiness are narrow. Whence, however, the compulsive need for more and better, which grinds me down, but also exalts me? And what is its price?
In the late afternoon of 21st of December 1989, in Cugir, public institutions were burning to the ground. How did the smallest city to rise up in the Revolution defeat the established dictatorship in just one day?
An Irish writer follows the history of Trajan's Column along the ideological waves which have shaped the idea that Romanians are a Latin people, which must be „purified” at all costs.
An American researcher explores the Russian and Easter European animation created during the Cold War in her new book.
The end of the world is best spent where it already happened.
The statues of influential historical figures, who stand accused of racism today, have started to be toppled in America and Europe. What do we stand to learn from their collapse?
The pandemic increases the risk of slave exploitation for agricultural workers - Romanians and Bulgarians are the most exposed. We spoke to workers, activists and authorities across the UK to understand the real price of food.
Several house mates in London share their diaries during lockdown.
After clashes between the police and a few inhabitants of the Rahova neighborhood in Bucharest, law enforcement agents are facing accusations of having abused several people in the area, including a mother and one of her children.
Other colleagues who were not around today write to me: “How was it? Wish I was there”. In the bus, I post a short clip with the message on the cinema: „Stay safe and see you soon.”