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- The untold story of Yugoslavia’s naturist paradise https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11998/yugoslavia-nudism-naturism-fkk-koversada-camping-holiday-croatia 134 comments
- The bureaucracy of hiking Hungary's Blue Trail https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13432/hungary-hiking-leisure-outdoors-bureaucracy-blue-trail 42 comments
- Next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means (2016) https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7269/spomenik-yugoslav-monument-owen-hatherley 25 comments
- Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11066/this-new-video-game-lets-you-do-nothing-in-a-suburban-russian-tower-block 87 comments
- On the rocks: how vodka tourism shaped and shattered decades of Soviet-Finnish relations. https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12438/vodka-tourism-finland-soviet-union-leningrad 17 comments europe
- 50 years of Cheburashka: why the Soviet Union’s best-loved cartoon character is still winning hearts after half a century https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13165/cheburashka-soviet-union-cartoon-fifty-years-animation-film-crocodile-gena 7 comments europe
- Latvia is Eastern Europe’s most ‘artistic’ country, study finds https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13159/latvia-is-eastern-europe-most-artistic-country-study-finds 4 comments europe
- Polish actor hijacks EU awards speech to scream in solidarity with Belarus https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12844/polish-actor-hijacks-eu-awards-speech-to-scream-in-solidarity-with-belarus 10 comments europe
- The Soviet Union produced countless hilarious comedies — so why have they barely made an impact in the West? https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12178/miserable-russian-film-soviet-comedies-criterion-collection-tarkovsky-gaidai-ryazanov 30 comments europe
- Meet the pioneers running Kyrgyzstan’s all-woman space agency https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11356/photography-kyrgyzstan-pioneers-satellite-space-school-all-women 5 comments space
- ‘Society doesn’t allow me to feel Polish.’ Stories from Warsaw’s Vietnamese diaspora https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11951/vietnamese-diaspora-poland-photography 137 comments europe
- ‘They will leave me jobless.’ Why declining press freedom in Bulgaria should worry us all https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11886/bulgaria-press-media-freedom-decline 21 comments europe
- Sex with Stalin? A new video game lets you seduce the Soviet leader https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11213/sex-with-stalin-video-game-bdsm 24 comments nottheonion
- Almaty has a giant squirrel 😁 https://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/10477/a-giant-squirrel-has-taken-over-almaty 3 comments europe
- These Lithuanian tiles transform any room into a Soviet apartment block http://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/9764/these-lithuanian-tiles-transform-any-room-into-a-soviet-apartment-block 7 comments europe
- Macedonia prepares to remove Skopje statues in plan to calm Greek tensions https://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/9256/macedonia-prepares-to-remove-skopje-statues-in-plan-to-calm-greek-tensions 25 comments europe
- Moscow monument to Kalashnikov to be unveiled next week https://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/8897/moscow-monument-to-kalashnikov-to-be-unveiled-next-week 7 comments europe
- Wall of grief: Russia gets first national memorial to victims of Soviet repression http://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/8805/wall-of-grief-russia-gets-first-memorial-to-victims-of-soviet-repression 86 comments europe
- Most young Russians get their news from state-run TV, study shows http://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/8668/most-young-russians-get-their-news-from-state-run-tv-study-shows 8 comments europe
- Red and white blues: how the Second World War replaced 1917 as modern Russia’s national myth http://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/8305/revisiting-revolution-red-white-blues-second-world-war-1917-modern-russia 4 comments europe
- The mighty have fallen : Toppling statues in the name of decommunisation https://calvertjournal.com/features/show/6696/decommunisation-ukraine-lenin-statues-donald-weber-photography 7 comments europe
- Opinion: London’s nightlife is dying. We should look to Eastern Europe for the future of clubbing http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/6759/clubbing-eastern-europe-techno-underground-music 5 comments europe
- Snow ghosts: haunting images of derelict Soviet infrastructure http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/6317/power-and-architecture-part-2-tkachenko-restricted-areas 3 comments russia
- Russia to build first monument to Ivan the Terrible http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/6403/russia-to-build-first-monument-to-ivan-the-terrible 16 comments russia
- Russia to build first monument to Ivan the Terrible http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/6403/russia-to-build-first-monument-to-ivan-the-terrible 3 comments europe
- Heaven and earth: the DIY architects behind communist Poland’s amazing wave of hand-built churches http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/6147 7 comments europe
- Finland/Russia Relations http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/5723/finland-russia-culture-nordic-aalto-yoghurt 8 comments russia
- The God delusion: how Soviet magazines satirised religion http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/3551/religious-cartoons-soviet-satirical-magazines 40 comments europe
- Stalling careers: how a generation of Russian intellectuals became market traders : Budget cuts in the last days of the USSR forced many members of the intelligentsia — civil servants, engineers and doctors among them — to work on market stalls. 25 years later, and many of them are still there http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/3465/russia-street-markets-soviet-union-intelligentsia 3 comments russia
- Footsteps of history: I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/5760/landscape-memory-gulag-wroclaw-poland 100 comments europe
- Ukraine bans all Russian films made after 2013 http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/5795/ukraine-bans-all-russian-films-made-after-2013 34 comments europe
- Latin lovers: why did post-communist Romania fall for Latino soap operas http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/4322/romania-latin-american-soaps-pepe-90s 74 comments europe
- 90s reloaded: freedom and excess in a wild Russian decade http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/3929 7 comments russia
- Putin signs decree approving Russia’s state cultural policy (12.24.2014) - Does anyone have any follow-up news/information on this? It seems to have gone largely unnoticed http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/3494/putin-signs-decree-approving-russias-state-cultural-policy 9 comments russia
- The Russian North | Cold and hostile, the Russian North looms large in the imagination as a brutal and unforgiving region. But from luminous polar nights to the haunting White Sea archipelago, it’s also a place of magic and wonder. Six tales from the edge of the world http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/3636/russian-north-six-stories-special-project 3 comments indepthstories
- Oscar-nominated Leviathan under renewed attack as Culture Minister dubs film “anti-Russian” http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/3563/leviathan-under-renewed-attack-as-culture-minister-dubs-film-anti-russian 20 comments europe
- Designers of Putin rings to launch further President-inspired accessories line http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/3561/designers-of-putin-rings-to-launch-further-accessories-line 4 comments russia
- Why business is booming for Russia’s psychics http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/3439/why-business-is-booming-for-russias-psychics 9 comments russia
- Outside the box: how Russian TV became watchable again - Russians, long obsessed with US TV series, have started making their own. And they're actually pretty good. What happened? http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/2980/russian-tv-series 8 comments russia
- Best local Russian flags http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1655/bizarre-russian-flag-quiz 5 comments russia