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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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Invisible in Moscow, Snowden has a big global impact

November 9, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Edward Snowden, Moscow’s most famous American, will shortly mark six months in Russia. So far, he has had no face

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A sad spectacle for Poland

November 1, 2013November 1, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

It’s been three-and-a-half years since the Polish president’s plane crashed near Smolensk, western Russia, killing all 96 aboard, but the

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Putincare: Russia’s alternative to Obamacare

October 31, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

With Obamacare dividing America, I thought it my patriotic duty to do a firsthand, between the hospital sheets, investigation of

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Georgia elects new president, but political clouds gather

October 28, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Georgia

Georgian voters gave a clean and clear victory to the ruling party candidate in Sunday’s presidential election. But voters woke

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Moldova caught in East-West tug of war

October 24, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Moldova, Russia

For centuries, Moldovans have been proud of their wines. Outside Chateau Vartely, flags snapping in the breeze reflect the variety

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Bulgarian Socialist Party leadership in bid for damage control on ban on land sales to foreigners

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leadership will provide enough MPs to make up the numbers of a Movement for Rights

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Russia Watch: Kremlin to US government workers: We welcome your secrets

October 14, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

In the Cold War days, Soviet spies in the United States faced tough tasks – identifying high value targets, and

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Ukraine’s future path may hinge on one bitter political rivalry

October 11, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

To hear Russian President Vladimir Putin say it, Russia and its biggest neighbor, Ukraine, are “one people.” “We have common

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Bulgaria’s protests, the sound and the fury

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski

Rather like the fine lady in the nursery rhyme, who has rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,

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