Anti-government protests in Bulgaria: A parliament behind barricades and a ‘different reality’
In the 42nd National Assembly on the morning of November 13, Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Lyutvi Mestan said
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgarian Socialist Party leadership in bid for damage control on ban on land sales to foreigners
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leadership will provide enough MPs to make up the numbers of a Movement for Rights
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Bulgarian Parliament adopts Ataka motion to extend to 2020 ban on selling land to foreigners
After a lengthy debate, Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on October 22 to approve a motion by Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist party
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Sharp differences in battle over ritual slaughter
Poland’s Jewish and Muslim communities are awaiting the outcome the latest attempt to reverse the ruling by the constitutional court
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Bulgaria’s Fourth Estate: Fiction and reality
The shrill hysteria among some Bulgarian journalists in condemning newly-launched television series the Fourth Estate (“Четвърта власт”) went, however inadvertently,
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Bulgaria’s government: 100 days of isolation
As the Bulgarian Socialist Party government marked 100 days in office on September 5, there were criticisms of all that
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Book Reviews: Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, and Judas Goat – The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery
There are few books written by expatriates who have spent some time in Sofia that give a sense of time
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Bussing in: Anatomy of a ‘spontaneous’ protest
It was inevitable that someone would give the game away about the “spontaneous” protest by a pro-government crowd outside Bulgaria’s
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Trust in Bulgaria: Bobby and Rosie Martin
At a pavement café in the central square of the north-western town of Mezdra, a smiling young waitress brings an
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