In the days before the Balkans became greyed over by Communism, writers of mystery and history made intrigue the chief occupation of the southeast corner of Europe. Even Communism cannot break ...

RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak is drilling down on two major issues: the chances of the EU suspending visa ...

Estonia is one of three members of the Western bloc sharing a border with Russia, and the country's Foreign Intelligence Service (VLA) found in a recent security assessment that Tallinn's military ...

“Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s,” on view at the Walker Art Center, takes visitors to Central Eastern European countries during the height of the Iron ...

Over three decades before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the CIA funnelled 10m books into the eastern bloc, including George Orwell’s “1984”, John le Carré’s spy thrillers and ...

In late September, representatives from NATO-member countries met at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels. The topic of discussion was not the military strength of the Warsaw Pact nations.

Perhaps that was as it should have been, since the exhibition I was on my way to see was “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s,” a comparatively cold, gray ...