Russia Watch: Georgia and Russia – rekindling an old love affair?
When I first visited Georgia, on a reporting trip, in September 1991, I arrived in Tbilisi armed with four years
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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 choice – power balancer or China’s Canada?
The reset between the Kremlin and the White House is dead. Now, the question in Moscow is: what will replace
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Bulgarian Socialist Party government continues campaign to demonise President Plevneliev
The veto by Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev of crucial parts of the Budget 2013 amendments approved by Bulgarian Socialist Party
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Erdogan’s presidential plans linked to Turkey’s economic fortunes
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of recent anti-government demonstrations and his public quarrel with the country’s banks and
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Georgia PM Bidzina Ivanishvili optimistic on Russia relations
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the war between Russia and Georgia, the prime minister of Georgia extended
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Bulgaria’s summer of stalemate
The 50th consecutive day of anti-government protests in Bulgaria coincided with the final sitting of Parliament before its summer recess
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Book review: Every Parent’s Nightmare
Murphy’s Law says that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. This has always struck me when reading about
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Russia Watch: Is Russia Turning Protestant?
In 1990, an American anthropologist wrote a controversial book: “Is Latin America Turning Protestant?” Two decades later, that same provocative
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Why doesn’t the Bulgarian government resign? 10 reasons…
For distant observers, noting the spectacle of well more than a month of turnouts of many thousands of Bulgarians to
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