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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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.
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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Austerity reality sets terms of a balancing act in Cyprus
The reality of things to come in the austerity era that Cyprus has been ushered in has been laid bare
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Travel: Second time around
The tales of low cost carriers and how the low cost model is becoming de facto the norm across Europe
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What is to become of them?
Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the
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Russia Watch: Dagestan – Russia’s wild but beguiling southern frontier
Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level
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The different roads of Borissov and Plevneliev
As the story goes, it was some months before Bulgaria’s 2011 presidential elections that Boiko Borissov invited Rossen Plevneliev to
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Bulgaria’s elections: The ups and downs
The story of the numbers in Bulgaria’s May 2013 parliamentary elections, once a look is taken at the records of
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