Putin and Crimea: A New World Order?
With the stroke of his pen, Russian President Vladimir Putin deepened the divide between East and West by signing a
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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.
Fico’s presidential Waterloo
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?
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’
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
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’
DW: EU foreign ministers have imposed sanctions – travel bans and asset freezes – on 13 Russian officials and eight
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Analysis: Cold War reflexes return to Europe over Ukraine
The Cold War is back. Russia’s military seizure of Crimea and preparations for a possible annexation of the southern Ukrainian
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With Russia, fight fire with fire
Vladimir Putin is right. The West has interfered massively in Ukraine. Let me explain. Last year, about 15 per cent
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Opinion: No way out of the Crimea crisis
It is rare that a government statement is anticipated with as much deep concern as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to parliament on
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