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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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Opinion: Varoufakis’ resignation comes too late

July 6, 2015 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle euro zone, Greece

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has probably done his country the best service he can by stepping down. His move

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One year on, CCB saga in Bulgaria far from over

June 19, 2015 Alex Bivol CCB affair

A year after the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) asked to be put under the central bank’s administration on June 20

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Pattern of provocateurs in clashes in Bulgaria

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It has long since become a familiar pattern. There is a protest in some far-right cause or a conflict, lately

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The undesirables

May 28, 2015 Maria Lipman for the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia

This week, both houses of the Russian parliament approved legislation regarding “undesirable organisations”. According to the new norm, a prosecutor

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Macedonia: A pawn in the Russian geopolitical game?

May 27, 2015 Deutsche Welle Macedonia

The political crisis in the small Balkan country of Macedonia has caught Moscow’s attention. It might be developing into a

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President Duda: What happened in Poland?

May 25, 2015May 25, 2015 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

Andrzej Duda’s success in Poland’s presidential election is a political earthquake. Not only did Duda, an inexperienced, second-rank politician from

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The price of coexistence between the EU and Russia

May 17, 2015May 10, 2024 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia

If the main flaw of the European security order after 1989 was that it was unsuited to incorporating Russia in

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US ambassador’s remarks on judiciary reform in Bulgaria

May 15, 2015May 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

US ambassador in Sofia Marcie Ries participated in a conference on judiciary reform, organised by three foreign business chambers in

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Ukraine’s reform crossroads

May 7, 2015May 10, 2024 Vessela Tcherneva Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine has not crossed its Rubicon. The most important and urgent decisions for its future, both internal and external, are

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