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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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: Russia’s Potemkin Arctic Conference?
There were two hours to go Wednesday afternoon at the international conference “The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue” when the
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Down a blind alley
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is not the only one practising unorthodox economic policies: undermining the market economy is becoming
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Russia Watch: Russia’s future in Central Asia – mall cop in a Chinese shopping center?
Looking back 10 years from now, the most important news of Sept. 2013 may not be Moscow and Washington jousting
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Russia Watch: With Syria, can Russia’s president move from Vlad the Impaler to Putin the Peacemaker?
Vladimir Putin seems to enjoy being demonized by the West. In recent months, he has earned his share: bullying gay
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Russia’s anti-gay law tests Olympic tenets
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, are less than six month months away. But a controversy over a Russian
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Russia Watch: Kremlin denies fathering Syria’s chemical Frankenstein
Lost in the verbal smokescreen that Russian officials throw up around the use of poison gas in Syria is one
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Bulgaria’s government: 100 days of isolation
As the Bulgarian Socialist Party government marked 100 days in office on September 5, there were criticisms of all that
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Russia piles pressure on former Soviet satellites to drop EU aspirations
As the Vilnius summit of EU’s Eastern Partnership draws nearer, at which several former Soviet states are expected to sign
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