Getting Bulgarian railway tours on track
Much about Bulgarian state railways BDZ seems to stop a bit short of the platform. It is not that BDZ
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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.
Nationalism vs Brexit
I can’t vote in the forthcoming referendum, to determine Great Britain’s future in Europe, and so I reserve the right
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Communism and self-esteem
Perceived from the sitting rooms of suburban England or even from a press office in Canary Wharf, the ex-communist countries
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Looking back again on Bulgaria
President Zhelyu Zhelev was an enigma to me. I had watched him on TV in Bulgaria during the early nineties,
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View from Sofia: Fear and loathing
Fear. The word travelled across Bulgarian media and between the lines of reports and political speeches in the days after
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Looking even further back at Bulgaria
My book, Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, is a humorous account of a British diplomat and his fall from grace,
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US ambassador: ‘America stands with you and will support the choices you have made’
United States ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin, who presented his credentials to President Plevneliev on February 24 2016, addressed an
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Looking back at Bulgaria
As far as I can remember, nothing very new has happened in Bulgaria for years, although many might not agree
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View from Sofia: Geography lessons
When Europe was dealing with the financial crisis, a dividing line presented itself in the EU between the rich rule-based
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