Bulgaria’s draft election code: Media face huge fines for damaging ‘good name’ of candidates
Media that publish material that damages the “decency, honour and reputation” of candidates during an election campaign will face fines
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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.
Bulgaria’s media: Of photographs, politics and proxy wars
In an exclusive on February 3, Economedia’s publications reported that Economedia was suing another Bulgarian media company and a fledgling
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Plevneliev’s referendum proposal: The consequences of saying no
Bulgarian politics is a cacophonous business, but ever since President Rossen Plevneliev said that he would propose a referendum on
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Don’t underestimate Ukraine!
In the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality
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For Bulgaria, ‘months of permanent scandal ahead’
Political commentator Dimitar Ganev, speaking on Bulgarian National Radio on January 28, said that months of permanent scandal lay ahead
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Column: Online petition drive in Turkey attempts to force anti-corruption reforms
The international “clean government” group, Transparency International, is launching a public on-line petition drive to pressure the government of Turkish
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Could Purvanov project split the BSP vote?
Bulgarian media reports that former president Georgi Purvanov was reviving his ABC Movement prompted a flurry of political comment, including
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Siderov scandal presents damaging dilemma for Bulgaria’s ruling axis
For the majority partners in Bulgaria’s ruling axis, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the Varna
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Central and Eastern Europe in 2013: Emerging and submerging
There were record floods, changes of government, protests – lots of those – and the European Union got larger by
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