Mapping the World

Russia is deliberately trying to influence public opinion in Europe through disinformation campaigns. Can Europe defend itself?

Since the invasion of Ukraine the shadow of Putin’s expansionism has been hanging over nations with a border with Russia.

They risk their lives working in the fields: farmers near Kherson are being targeted by Russian drone pilots.

Romanians close to the Ukrainian border are living in fear of Russian drone attacks.

Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children are thought to have been abducted and taken to Russia.

Why does a Russian region in the far east have Yiddish as an official language? 

Moldova is torn in two - part of the population wants rapprochement with the European Union, part looks back nostalgically to the Soviet era.

Journalist Vladimir Vasak returns to Russia to find out what life is like inside a country at war. 

Masha Borzunova meets a Russian deserter who tells how he went from being a war hero to an ostracised traitor of his country.

Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community is on the rise across Europe, despite stronger equal rights laws.

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

With Keir Starmer ‘s resignation, British politics is still unstable after six prime ministers in the ten years since the Brexit vote.

In 2016, he was one of the main supporters of Brexit. Today, his credo is the fight against immigration.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

The city of stars on the steppe is the largest space launch facility in the world and crucial to the Soviet space programme.

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

Once a year, the quiet city of Clisson is transformed into the European capital of metal.

Hellfest kicks off now! Day one of France's most famous heavy metal festival includes sets from Shelter and The Plot In You.