Controversy over foreign minister’s visit to Ukraine highlights Bulgaria’s policy complexities
The visit to Ukraine by Kristian Vigenin, the former MEP who currently is Bulgaria’s foreign minister, was a bid to
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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.
Opinion: EU, US must bring Putin to reason
How does one stop a head of state with autocratic tendencies, who brutally pursues his interests without regard to how
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Russia Watch: Russia’s occupation of Crimea – blueprint for Eastern Ukraine?
One week after the Sochi Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin has won a gold in the Occupation Olympics. They are being
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Thin red line from the Comintern to PES
When Martin Schulz stands up in front of assorted delegates at the Party of European Socialists congress in Rome on
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The politics of power over Bulgaria’s parliament
The political arithmetic that could decide the future of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly has been changed by the entry of
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Opinion: The EU must not give in to temptation
Nobody expected things to happen this fast – least of all the European Union. On Friday, the German, Polish and
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Of hearts and minds and media monopolies
Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, says that Delyan Peevski’s media do not constitute a monopoly
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Will Putin try to split Ukraine?
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the presidential palace and the nation’s capital, taking refuge in his hometown of Donetsk.
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Of trolls and talking points
Opponents and critics of the Bulgarian Socialist Party government have seized with glee on a series of media reports arising
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