Putin’s friends in Europe
The upsurge of populism in Europe has provided Russia with an ample supply of sympathetic political parties across the continent.
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Perspectives
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.
Bulgaria’s top two presidential candidates duel in live TV debate
The two candidates in Bulgaria’s presidential elections seen in opinion polls as running first and second – out of 21
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Third US presidential debate: Trump shocks with ‘I’ll keep you in suspense’
The third United States presidential election debate was running along predictable lines until Donald Trump said, in an extension of
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Will Bulgaria’s presidential elections lead to early parliamentary elections?
Political parties participating in a coalition government experience give-and-take. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, amid the stoked-up temperature of the
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View from Sofia: In the shadow of elections
EU-Russia relations is traditionally a controversial issue in Bulgarian politics and society. The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry seems to be on
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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Shadow of the Bulgarian Communist Party
Tsetska Tsacheva, nominated by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party as its candidate in the country’s November 2016
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Conflictorial: Trump the loser in second US presidential debate
Donald Trump went into the second 2016 US presidential televised debate the underdog, and while underdogs sometimes earn sympathy, Trump
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The Balkan Blog: Sing A Song of Sixpence
‘Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the
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Bokova: I’m still in the UN race
Irina Bokova has become Bulgaria’s irascible and annoying ex that just won’t go away, the irritating loudmouth who clings to
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