Croatia: The 28th state
Less than two decades following the bloody ethnic conflict that broke up Yugoslavia, Croatia celebrated its entry into the European
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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.
Will Siderov be unhorsed?
On a day commemorating Bulgarian national hero Hristo Botev, who died during the struggle for liberation from Ottoman rule, the
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Welcome to Moscow’s transit lounge, Mr. Snowden
Uncle Volodya went to Finland this week and told three fairy tales. – Gays have equal rights in Russia. –
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Bulgaria’s protests: what will follow?
The anti-government protests in Sofia on the evening of June 22 gathered what reporters saw as a new record number
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Russia Watch: Kremlin crosses Russia’s Sunni muslims by joining Syria’s Shia alliance
Vladimir Putin got out of the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland without any broken china on the floor. In the
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Bulgaria: The moods of a protest
The public protests in Sofia, these humid days of June 2013, must first and most importantly be characterised as peaceful.
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Russia Watch: Setting the pace for Russia, Moscow tames its excesses
Last week, an American friend of mine received two mysterious white envelopes in the mail. On opening them, he found
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The Borissov two-step
Ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 2013 parliamentary elections, it was a case of “all against GERB” and a few weeks
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Turkey protests reveal wider political struggle
The continuing demonstrations in Turkey started as a protest against plans to develop a popular square in Istanbul that is
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