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Song contest or political arena?: What are the nuances of Eurovision and Intervision in 2025?

Written by Anastasia Pestova

9 November 2025

Solidarity of the enslaved: Ukraine’s history of dissidence

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27 June 2025

The fourth industrial revolution is an opportunity to achieve global gender equality

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18 February 2025

Fact-checkers condemn physical attack against journalist of Croatian fact-checking service Faktograf

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24 July 2024

Stories about Poland

Is it useful to talk to a dictator? Belarusian opposition have doubts

Former political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova called for negotiations with Lukashenka; many don’t agree

Written by Daria Dergacheva

13 February 2026

The magic of travel: Three Ukrainian women writers of the 1930s

The travelogues have shaped women’s emancipation

Written by Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe

6 July 2025

Albanian author Ismail Kadare remembered by authors from Central and Southern Europe

Kadare became the symbol of how Albanians wanted to be perceived

Written by Filip Noubel

3 July 2024

Poland plans to close the last border crossings with Belarus as migrant crisis continues

There is a clash between ideas of security and asylum

Written by Daria Dergacheva

30 June 2024

Polish-Taiwanese cultural bridges: An interview with translator Wei-Yun Lin-Górecka

In Poland, local places that are remote are named "Tajwan"

Written by Filip Noubel

18 June 2024

The West’s Belarus policy: Does it make sense?

The geopolitical equivalent of ‘cancel culture’

Written by Russia Post

4 September 2023

Taiwan and Central Europe are increasingly aligned politically and economically: Interview with Polish analyst Marcin Jerzewski

Education has a special role to play in the continually expanding relations between Central Europe and Taiwan

Written by Filip Noubel

30 May 2023

Creative initiatives add new content from Central and South Eastern Europe to Wikipedia

Students, teachers, librarians, pensioners and pilots contribute to enriching Wikipedia content

Written by Filip Stojanovski

11 May 2023

People fleeing from Russia: ‘We were deprived of “home” too’

For many Russians, the lives they are building abroad are a one-way ticket

Written by Anastasia Pestova

Translated by Daria Dergacheva

1 March 2023

Queering the internet: anonymous online spaces for LGBTQ+ people

Amid persecution, violence, or judgement, many queer folks turn online

Written by Sydney Allen

7 February 2023

Overcoming existentialist crises with music: Poland's Karolina Cicha

One-women-orchestra promoting the music of Lipka Tatars and Karaims

Written by Elmira Lyapina

19 January 2023

What did the outside world in the 1930s know about the Soviet famine and the ‘Holodomor’ in Ukraine?

The man-made famine from 1932 to 1933 killed millions of Ukrainians

Written by Filip Stojanovski

16 December 2022

Why do seabirds eat plastic? How a citizen science project in Poland is helping to find answers

A community on Poland's Baltic coast looks for answers in the sand

Written by Marta Alicja Trzeciak

3 August 2022

Indonesia is caught between Russia and the West ahead of the November G20 conference

Russia's attendance may derail Jokowi's summit goals

Written by Sydney Allen

15 April 2022

The geopolitics of disinformation and cybersecurity in Europe

The free flow of information is a crucial tool to counter disinformation.

Written by Rafaela Landikusic

23 March 2022

Russian embassy in Skopje threatens to ‘record’ dissenters from Kremlin official positions, labeled ‘Russophobes’

Russian state uses social media that are forbidden to its citizens

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

8 March 2022

Ukrainian refugees gather at the borders with Moldova, Slovakia, Poland

As Russia's invasion began, many Ukrainians were seeking refuge elsewhere

Written by Filip Noubel

24 February 2022

Poland reinforces border with Belarus as migrant crisis escalates

Thousands of migrants remain on the Belarus-Poland border

Written by Tanya Lokot

10 November 2021

Between two borders: you can’t get through

Dozens of people are stranded between Polish and Belarusian borders

Written by Transitions Online

17 October 2021

France, Turkey, Poland: The reality of the new COVID-19 spike crisis

India joins the Philippines as the lowest among 10 high-COVID countries

Written by Ian Inkster

20 May 2021

WATCH/LISTEN: Breaking the taboo on abortion

Missed the live stream of the April 7 Global Voices Insights webinar on abortion rights in five countries? Here's a replay.

Written by Georgia Popplewell

7 April 2021

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