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A wine renaissance is happening in the Balkans

This region had a history of producing wines that predated the Romans and now people are reclaiming this heritage.

World

Romanian ex-president Iliescu faces crimes against humanity charges

Prosecutors say Iliescu was responsible running a campaign of misinformation that created a climate of terror.

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EU project aims to preserve cultural opposition to communism

In partnership with The European Commission

In our Futuris series, we visited an escape room in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A new European research project is working to preserve historical material related to cultural resistance from the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. But how are they achieving that?

Czech Republic

Czech protesters call for Babis to quit over EU funds scandal

Thousands marched to call for the Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister to quit amid an EU funds scandal.

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Latvia

From war port to artistic hub: The transformation of Latvia’s Karosta

Artists from Latvia are helping to turn a troubled port neighbourhood long viewed as a place of imprisonment into a hub of creative freedom.

Czech Republic

Prague Spring at 50: what happened and what is its legacy?

It's 50 years since a Russia-led invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia put down an liberal uprising called the Prague Spring.

Albania

Inside Albania’s notorious gulag: Spac's legacy of terror lives on

Thousands of political prisoners were forced to work to physical exhaustion and even death down the mines at Albania's Spac camp. Adem was one of them recalling the living horror of his almost 20-year incarceration.

Germany

German city installs Karl Marx traffic lights to celebrate philosopher

“The Communist Manifesto” author was born in the city of Trier 200 years ago this May.

Russia

Stalin calendar pulled from sale in Russia

Public outcry has forced the withdrawal from sale of a 2018 calendar honouring Stalin in the Russian city of Yekatarinburg.

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Siberian city erects Minecraft-style Lenin monument

The momument has angered Russia's communists

Russia

What does the October Revolution mean to Russians of today?

Euronews talked to a Russian journalist about how the country looks at the events of 100 years ago

Russia

Russian communists celebrate Bolshevik Revolution

Thousands of Russian Communist Party members marched across downtown Moscow to mark the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Russia

Russia avoids ostentatious celebration on 100th anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution

Our chronology revisits the events in 1917 that shook the world

China

Xi Jinping approved as China's most influential leader since Mao Zedong

Over 2,300 communist delegates voted unanimously to include Xi Jinping's doctrine in the constitution.

China

China's President praises the successes of 'socialism' at Communist Party Congress

China's President Xi Jinping pledges to build 'modern socialist country' as he opens the Communist Party Congress in Beijing

China

19th Chinese Communist party Congress opens with reforms in the air

China's Communist Party opens its 19th Congress on Wednesday with a backdrop of sluggish reforms and slowing growth.

Albania

Albania’s communist bunkers put to new use

Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha commissioned the construction of 173,371 bunkers between 1975 and 1983, they are now being used as beach bars, restaurants, storages, dog houses and museums.

USA

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, dies aged 89

Romania

Soviet nostalgia? Take a tour through Bucharest's communist past!

Now an energetic commercial centre, Bucharest, Romania’s capital city, still bears in its architecture and landscape traces of the country’s communist history.

Cult

The stage play 'Stalin Watchmaker' reflects the life of the former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin

A man or a murdering monster?