Russia Watch: After Boston’s bombs, Russia’s world class sports events face big security challenges
Back in the sunny days before the Boston Marathon bombings, Vladimir Putin, an avid sportsman, decided that the best way
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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.
Bulgarian media, consolidated
It was a strange if not unhappy coincidence that in the very week that the US state department expressed concern
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Boston’s bombs will echo around the world
Many Russians watch with quiet satisfaction as the American saga unfolds about the two Chechen brothers turned Boston Marathon bombers.
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Bulgaria’s electricity prices zero-sum game
Barely a month after Bulgaria’s utilities regulator approved lower electricity prices for consumers, their sustainability even in the short term
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Eavesdropping on the Bulgarian mind
A week into the official election campaigning period, Boiko Borissov’s GERB either has a lead of a few per cent
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Russia Watch: Russia searches for ‘foreign agents’ at home, disguises its information war abroad
Russia’s government is busy rooting out “foreign agents.” So far police agents have “inspected” 700 non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, looking
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UK ambassador: Should I be an optimist or a pessimist about Bulgaria?
British ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen addressed the Atlantic Club on April 11 2013 on the topic of “should I
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Bulgaria to ask for South Stream review
Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov said on April 10 that Bulgaria should review its investment decision on South Stream
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‘At the mercy of psychopaths’: Palfreeman interviewed
I’m still Jock Nobody to the Australian authorities, complains Jock Palfreeman, despite the recent publication of a book documenting his
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