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Trouble in the Albanian Alps

How a scheme to boost economic development in Albania’s mountainous north could end up enriching a few, harming the environment and angering its neighbours
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A Communist history of hip-hop

East Germany’s little-known musical history and the ongoing fight for recognition
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End of the line for Kyrgyzstan’s women drivers

A journalist set out to profile the women trolleybus drivers of Bishkek. What she found was a means of transport – and way of life – on the brink of
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Who’s calling cut on Finnish film?  

How dwindling grants and a war over who deserves them are threatening Finnish cinema
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A victory on paper and nothing more

Why Romania’s efforts to legally recognize freelance cultural workers were doomed to fail
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What’s behind Putin’s new law on “sovereign genetics”?

A Russian-language outlet investigates the sinister motivations behind – and consequences of – the Kremlin’s new law on genetic material
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The multiverse of “UK Shelby”

How a Chinese immigrant in a Welsh town has built a following on Chinese social media platform Douyin and what his fame says about language and belonging
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A railway built on sand

The crumbling foundations of the Greek railway system
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Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Original by Oliver Wehrs ‘Refugees welcome’, published in

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Money, medical abuse and the female body

How Romania's medical industry profits from women’s bodies through procedures lacking scientific evidence – some funded by public healthcare, others costing thousands of euros in private clinics
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Gaming behind the iron curtain

From the Rubik's Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games
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The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep
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