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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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Turkish PM Erdogan’s presidential bid faces bumpy road

April 10, 2014April 10, 2014 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

With Turkey’s ruling party having won a resounding victory in nationwide local elections on March 30, observers claim the door

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Analysis: Putin’s next move

April 6, 2014April 6, 2014 Catherine Maddux of VOANews.com Russia, Ukraine

With Russian troops amassed on the Ukraine border, some observers are  worrying about what is being called a “post-Crimea crisis.”And

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Ukraine: Battling over an economic midget

April 3, 2014April 3, 2014 Alois Berger of Deutsche Welle Russia, Ukraine

In the foreseeable future, Ukraine is going to cost the West a lot of money. The European Union has earmarked

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Putin and Crimea: A New World Order?

March 30, 2014 Catherine Maddux of VOANews.com Russia, Ukraine

With the stroke of his pen, Russian President Vladimir Putin deepened the divide between East and West by signing a

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Fico’s presidential Waterloo

March 30, 2014 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico will have to swallow a bitter political pill in the next few days after he

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Opinion: Russia gets the boot – now what?

March 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle Russia, Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is right. In recent years, the G8 summits have made few concrete decisions. In fact,

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit’s first ‘year of change’

March 23, 2014May 10, 2024 Momchil Metodiev Bulgarian Orthodox Church

With the election of the Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Bishop Naum, as the new

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Between Crimea and Cyprus

March 18, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Cyprus, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

Amid the Crimea crisis, it has become a popular rhetorical device to liken the situation of the breakaway territory to

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Ukraine: ‘EU needs to follow through’

March 17, 2014May 10, 2024 Deutsche Welle Russia, Ukraine

DW: EU foreign ministers have imposed sanctions – travel bans and asset freezes – on 13 Russian officials and eight

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