Comment: Bulgaria and polarisation over the Syrian refugees
In a country that the autumn of 2013 finds quite as deeply divided over almost every issue, perhaps it is
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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.
Russia Watch: Greenpeace pirates? Russia loses another international PR war
After Pussy Riot and “Gay propaganda,” the Kremlin now marches resolutely towards another international public relations defeat — this time
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Azerbaijan presidential vote may reveal cracks in regime support
In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people vote for president Wednesday in an election that holds little suspense. An Aliyev – either father,
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Syrian intervention renewal an Ankara balancing act
Turkey’s parliament voted Thursday to extend a mandate authorizing deployment of troops in Syria if necessary for another year. Passing
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Bulgaria’s Fourth Estate: Fiction and reality
The shrill hysteria among some Bulgarian journalists in condemning newly-launched television series the Fourth Estate (“Четвърта власт”) went, however inadvertently,
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Hassan Ademov emerges as Bulgaria’s ‘most promising’ minister
Quite early into his term as prime minister, Boiko Borissov had banned his ministers from making promises, telling them instead
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Is crackdown on Greenpeace part of Russia’s new Cold War in the Arctic?
SALEKHARD, RUSSIA — Icy blasts of water greeted Greenpeace protesters climbing Russia’s lone offshore oil platform in the Arctic. Russia’s Coast
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Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?
ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov
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Is Turkey turning away from the West?
A top adviser to Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argued publicly that Turkey should stop aspiring to join the
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