Turkey’s criticism of OIC over Egypt seen as split with Arab allies
Turkey’s call for the resignation of the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, for not speaking out
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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.
Book Reviews: Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, and Judas Goat – The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery
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
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?
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?
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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