Month of March , 2008

New Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is a virtual clone of his ex-boss. But Putin was also mocked as a spineless yes-man when he emerged from Yeltsin's shadow »

There is nothing like losing your right to vote to spark questions about national identity and belonging, writes thiseurope editor Gareth Harding »

Deep in the heart of Sicily's 'Godfather' country, Hidden Europe editor Nicky Gardner discovers a devout Albanian diaspora and the maker of the world's longest cannolo  »

Food buff Paul Ames gets medieval in Vilnius, quoffing mead and vodka and tucking into pig snouts, half-metre eels and dam-building rodents »