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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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.
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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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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