Global Voices » Eastern & Central Europe

"I want to change their viewpoint, and I want them to accept people with disabilities as members of their same society, as their friends, as their colleagues.” 

https://globalvoices.org/2024/05/02/marijeta-mojasevics-journey-from-stroke-survivor-to-disability-rights-activist/

The state media reports on the success of Belarusian state-sponsored Chernobyl program that deals with economic, social and environmental consequences of the disaster, but many are skeptical abou...

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/30/38-years-after-chernobyl-disaster-12-of-belaruss-territory-is-still-contaminated/

The EU resolution is a clear warning to the ruling Georgian Dream: Lest the government drop the bill from the parliamentary discussion, the country's EU accession negotiations will stall.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/29/eu-parliament-condemns-the-reintroduction-of-georgias-foreign-agent-bill/

Recently, interest in Indigenous languages has intensified in some republics of Russia. Communities appear on various social media, helping to learn languages and use them in everyday life.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/29/an-activist-translates-minecraft-manga-and-harry-potter-from-russian-into-the-chuvash-language/

Research by Vlada Baranova claims that the war in Ukraine has led to the ethnicization of conflicts and confrontation between the federal authorities, perceived as “Russian,” and the Indigeno...

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/25/turning-point-the-ethnicization-of-social-issues-and-what-indigenous-communities-think-about-it-in-russia/

The rights of the people whose voices and images are being appropriated will need to be more seriously protected.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/25/audio-deepfakes-and-ai-tricks-threaten-elections-around-the-world/

Combining the specific counter-alto singing with accordion enables two musical ladies to give new life to cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from XIX century lyrical poetry to Sephardic...

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/22/jelena-milusic-and-merima-kljuco-balkan-soul-expressed-through-music/

Sevdalinka (also known as sevdah) is the folk musical expression characteristic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has taken deep roots in the musical cultures of several other Western Balkans coun...

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/19/sevdah-the-perfect-marriage-of-preservation-and-innovation/

Transgender teens' visits to the doctor are almost nonexistent, and school is a very challenging environment for people who do not conform to traditional gender roles

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/15/family-of-trasngender-child-talks-about-problems-and-support-in-moldova/

For two years now, Alexander Gronsky has been documenting what Moscow looks like and how it lives during the war and how the war intrudes into the urban space.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/15/moscow-photographer-captures-the-capital-in-military-frenzy/

The latest two issues of popular Serbian magazine Politikin Zabavnik include inserts with the comics Dikan, for the first time in Serbian and Romani.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/09/romani-language-edition-of-the-dikan-comics-published-in-serbia/

As it turned out, the meeting was indeed focused on Armenia and had nothing to do with Azerbaijan unlike claims leveled by the government of Azerbaijan ahead of the meeting.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/09/azerbaijans-fomo-moment/

Global Voices is piloting a project of paid and commissioned stories about Ukraine by Ukrainians regardless of current location. Stories can be pitched and written in Ukrainian, English or Russia...

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/09/global-voices-call-for-stories-about-ukraine/

Biographical movie dramatizing the life  and career of Džej Ramadanovski, a Serbian singer of Romani ethnicity, has achieved commercial success in several neighboring Balkan countries.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/08/serbian-movie-about-roma-singer-become-a-hit-in-several-balkan-countries/

There were few educational and social programs for Romani people in the USSR, and later in Russia, and there's little hope that any will be introduced in the near future.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/06/romani-diasporas-are-now-more-marginalised-in-russia-than-in-the-late-ussr/