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weekly Editorial, blogs, opinion from TSG team and readers, Bill Drysdale on ‘My Bulgaria’; Analysis – from team, VOA, NENN; full texts of significant statements, speeches and media statements by Government and non-government organisations.

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Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The struggle for truth

July 16, 2019March 8, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

It is a battle for historical truth, a battle against fake news, a battle against Holocaust distortion, and it is

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Israeli ambassador Lilian: ‘Ending Iran’s nuclear military programme and its belligerent behaviour’

July 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

By Irit Lilian, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Bulgaria Later this month, we will commemorate the victims of

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Opinion: In the end, it was a backroom deal

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Deutsche Welle European Commission, European Parliament

It was an unexpected victory for Angela Merkel. It has been 50 years since we last had a German leading

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Opinion: Moldovan crisis a test case for Russia-US cooperation

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Deutsche Welle Moldova, Russia

Russia is back in big political business. For the first time since the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the

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Looking on Bulgaria: The D-Day landings anniversary, and ‘desant’

June 6, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It had been a matter of curiousity for me for years, the reason why – in film subtitles and texts

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A Balkan tragedy: Of the Bulgarian village of Bolyarino, and life, and death

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there

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The strange influence of the Macedonian model

May 9, 2019 Vessela Tcherneva Macedonia

The presidential elections in North Macedonia last Sunday produced both a winner – pro-EU and pro-Nato candidate Stevo Pendarovski, a

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Occupational hazards: The Russian military in Crimea

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 Gustav Gressel of the ECFR Russia, Ukraine

While its current disposition in Crimea is mainly defensive in nature, Russia’s military build-up on the peninsula could soon turn

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Israel’s ambassador on Gaza: Don’t confuse the aggressor and the victim

April 2, 2019April 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Irit Lilian, the ambassador of the State of Israel to Bulgaria, has written this as a personal standpoint: What is

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