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The Calvert Journal @calvertjournal

An award-winning online magazine exploring the culture and creativity of the New East: Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia

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A group of artists and entrepreneurs ​​escaped the city for Chateau Chapito in the Georgian mountains calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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In the last two months of 2021, Bosnia’s National Gallery wasn’t able to pay its staff their salaries. Three months later, they are yet again 'begging' for their wages calvertjournal.com/features/…
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The collection’s name, Una, is the name of Malevich's daughter calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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Journey into the multicultural heart of Europe to meet Poland’s Tatars #TCJarchives calvertjournal.com/features/…
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Nationalists don’t want trans women to wear our traditional dress, and touch our symbolic Bulgarian rose' calvertjournal.com/features/…
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From high-tech cultivation to organic gardening, alternative methods of growing food are reaching Lithuania's urban communities calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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Films made in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are often more vulnerable to decay than their western counterparts. How do we keep the analogue magic alive in the region? calvertjournal.com/features/…
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Into Soviet kitsch? Gourmet food? Vintage clothes? Knock-off electronics? Find the Moscow market for you #TCJarchives calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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Czech architects have unveiled their plans for building the country’s tallest skyscraper in the northeastern city of Ostrava calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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The structure will be replaced by a new project, New Istropolis, a glass tower calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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This “workers’ paradise” was a three-dimensional showcase of what a Soviet socialist company town was meant to be like #TCJArchives calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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More than a century after Poland’s independence was restored in 1918, the period’s vision of Polishness as rooted in folk culture has endured calvertjournal.com/features/…
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Most artists will receive dozens of rejection letter throughout their careers. Anastasia Vepreva collects them all #RussiaZ calvertjournal.com/features/…
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Every now and then, God wearies of his own luminous silence, and infinity starts to make him a little bit sick' calvertjournal.com/articles/…

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From controlling the weather to smart home gadgets, Soviet writers had a lot of hopes for the future #TCJArchives calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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“6:19 Studio is a tattoo studio with the mission to support local artists and to be an open space for art and self-expression” calvertjournal.com/articles/…

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Based in Riga, Tīrkultūra acts as an online art gallery — exhibiting the very best that a new generation of sound artists has to offer calvertjournal.com/features/…
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“I played against many great Grandmasters,” says the 79-year old who became the world’s first female Grandmaster #TCJArchives calvertjournal.com/features/…
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At least 227 people were killed during Kazakhstan's January protests, with a further 9,900 detained by police calvertjournal.com/articles/…
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The Kyshtym disaster is ranked as the world’s second-worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. So why has nobody heard of it? calvertjournal.com/features/…
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