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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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Halloween high: Bitcoin hits $6300 all time record – and the top 8 mistakes Bitcoin newbies will make

October 30, 2017November 3, 2017 Lance Nelson Lance Nelson

Back in July 2016, when the Bitcoin price was $642, I said in an article in The Sofia Globe that

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Partners for Life: Europe’s unanswered ‘Eastern Question’

October 27, 2017 Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine

Next month the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit convenes for the fifth time. This could be a crucial moment for the

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Podcast: Bulgaria’s Martin Kuvandzhiev, Bitcoin Gold developer

October 26, 2017October 27, 2017 Lance Nelson Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

Bitcoin recently peaked at a market capitalisation of $100 billion due, in part, to crypto enthusiasts selling alt coins and

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Bulgarian EU Presidency: Pointless to pursue portrayal of a Potemkin village

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian EU Presidency

As many – including Bulgarians – who grew up in the communist bloc would remember, there was a Soviet animated

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What to do about Turkey?

October 17, 2017 Fredrik Wesslau of the European Council on Foreign Relations Turkey

Turkey will be on the menu as European leaders meet for dinner in Brussels on October 19, but it won’t

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What Europe can do for the Western Balkans

October 14, 2017October 17, 2017 Vessela Tcherneva Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia

The Balkans are not as exciting as they once were. The large-scale violence that made the region a central concern

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Fellow travellers: Russia, anti-Westernism, and Europe’s political parties

July 18, 2017 Gustav Gressel of the ECFR Volen Siderov

There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian government. Significantly, these include

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Protests in Bulgaria: From Assenovgrad to the ‘1300 years’ monument

July 11, 2017July 14, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

These sweltering days of July, hardly a headline in the Bulgarian media goes by without having the word “protest” somewhere

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Opinion: Modern-day slaves?

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017 David Clark Brexit

Britain is my native country. I was born and bred here, but I was living and working for some years

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