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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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Book Reviews: Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, and Judas Goat – The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery

August 18, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

There are few books written by expatriates who have spent some time in Sofia that give a sense of time

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Bulgaria’s ‘Reformist Bloc’ pursues the chimera of right-wing unity

August 18, 2013May 10, 2024 Independent Balkan News Agency

Against the background of many weeks of protests against a Bulgarian Socialist Party government that its thousands of critics see

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Russia Watch: Georgia and Russia – rekindling an old love affair?

August 16, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

When I first visited Georgia, on a reporting trip, in September 1991, I arrived in Tbilisi armed with four years

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Russia Watch: Russia’s choice – power balancer or China’s Canada?

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

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

August 9, 2013May 10, 2024 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests, Rossen 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

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 David Arnold of VOANews Turkey

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

August 6, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

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

August 2, 2013August 22, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

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

August 1, 2013August 2, 2013 Gabriel Hershman

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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