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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Karadere protests revive public campaign for resignation of Bulgarian government

March 25, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

Public indignation in Bulgaria against government support for a planned hotel complex development in the Karadere nature area on the

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Perspectives 

Between Crimea and Cyprus

March 18, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Cyprus, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

Amid the Crimea crisis, it has become a popular rhetorical device to liken the situation of the breakaway territory to

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Bulgaria 

Peevski, South Stream, Easter bonuses and Ukraine: Notes from a news conference

March 10, 2014March 12, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

More than nine months after the formation of Bulgaria’s current government, the leaders of the two parties and their prime

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Europe 

Macedonia heads into election season, choosing a president and parliament

March 6, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

Voters in Macedonia are to vote in the first round of presidential elections on April 13 2014 and a week

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Europe 

Future coalition question hangs over Serbia’s March 16 election

March 6, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Serbia

Since the official start of campaigning in the runup to Serbia’s ahead-of-schedule national parliamentary elections on March 16 2014, opinion

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Controversy over foreign minister’s visit to Ukraine highlights Bulgaria’s policy complexities

March 6, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kristian Vigenin, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia, Ukraine, Volen Siderov

The visit to Ukraine by Kristian Vigenin, the former MEP who currently is Bulgaria’s foreign minister, was a bid to

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Perspectives 

The politics of power over Bulgaria’s parliament

February 26, 2014February 27, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The political arithmetic that could decide the future of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly has been changed by the entry of

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Perspectives 

Of hearts and minds and media monopolies

February 23, 2014February 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media, Peevski protests

Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, says that Delyan Peevski’s media do not constitute a monopoly

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Perspectives 

Of trolls and talking points

February 16, 2014February 16, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Opponents and critics of the Bulgarian Socialist Party government have seized with glee on a series of media reports arising

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