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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Could Oresharski replace Dennis Rodman as Kim Jong Un’s new BFF?

February 12, 2014February 12, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Having survived a third vote of no confidence on the morning of February 12, Bulgaria’s cabinet apparently decided to shoot

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Bulgaria’s draft election code: Media face huge fines for damaging ‘good name’ of candidates

February 7, 2014February 8, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

Media that publish material that damages the “decency, honour and reputation” of candidates during an election campaign will face fines

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Bulgaria 

How the Bulgarian media covered (or did not) new report on the Bulgarian media

February 5, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

Coverage by the Bulgarian-language media of an annual report on the state of the Bulgarian media said a lot about,

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Bulgaria’s media: Of photographs, politics and proxy wars

February 3, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

In an exclusive on February 3, Economedia’s publications reported that Economedia was suing another Bulgarian media company and a fledgling

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Plevneliev’s referendum proposal: The consequences of saying no

February 3, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian politics is a cacophonous business, but ever since President Rossen Plevneliev said that he would propose a referendum on

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Perspectives 

For Bulgaria, ‘months of permanent scandal ahead’

January 28, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Political commentator Dimitar Ganev, speaking on Bulgarian National Radio on January 28, said that months of permanent scandal lay ahead

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Bulgaria 

Purvanov project hits BSP, Borissov’s GERB back in the lead – poll

January 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party has been hard-hit by the relaunch of Georgi Purvanov’s ABC movement, with the wedge driven into

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Could Purvanov project split the BSP vote?

January 12, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgarian media reports that former president Georgi Purvanov was reviving his ABC Movement prompted a flurry of political comment, including

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Perspectives 

Siderov scandal presents damaging dilemma for Bulgaria’s ruling axis

January 10, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

For the majority partners in Bulgaria’s ruling axis, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the Varna

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