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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Events in Bulgaria in 2019: The Big Questions

December 30, 2018January 3, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A number of events are scheduled for Bulgaria in 2019; well, some are scheduled, others are – to riff on

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Bulgaria 

After Simeonov’s resignation as Bulgaria’s Deputy PM: The big questions

November 16, 2018November 18, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Valeri Simeonov

Journalists in Bulgaria who may have expected the sharply chilly late autumn evening of November 16 to present nothing other

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Ombudsman Maya Manolova rides the popularity train

November 6, 2018November 8, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

For most Bulgarian officials, having your taxpayer-funded car taken away would be a matter of inconvenience, and possibly indignation. For

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Perspectives 

Comment: Bulgarian politicians serve up populism in price control proposals

November 1, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Do Bulgarian politicians take their cues from the communist past or the European future or, more precisely, the future European

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Perspectives 

Marinova murder grist to mill of Bulgaria’s far-right politicians

October 12, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

For years, parties on the far-right of Bulgaria’s spectrum – self-described patriots and nationalists – have had so-called “gypsy crime”

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Bulgaria’s Viktoria Marinova murder case: On rushing to judgment

October 10, 2018October 11, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The aftermath of the murder of Bulgarian television presenter Viktoria Marinova has been an unedifying spectacle in which Marinova was

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Bulgaria 

Alpha Research September 2018 poll: Borissov’s GERB 22.2%, Bulgarian Socialist Party 19.7%

October 8, 2018October 10, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Roumen Radev

The parties in Bulgaria’s ruling coalition have shed some support, according to an Alpha Research three-monthly poll conducted in September

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Perspectives 

October surprise? Rising prices could impact Bulgarian political situation

September 12, 2018September 14, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov have grabbed the headlines by pledging a 10 per

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: ‘Resignations no longer a solution but an escape from responsibility’

September 3, 2018September 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has launched his latest scathing attack on Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government by saying that resignations

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