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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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Bulgaria’s political crisis: A President in the middle

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Rossen Plevneliev

He has been booed and jeered by protesters, called a marionette by a minority party leader and had his ability

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Russian adoption: American mom Vs. Russian politicians

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Russian politicians have made political hay this week out of the recent unexplained death in Texas of Max Shatto, a

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgarian political crisis: protesters’ demands, in English

February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On February 24, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev appeared in front of the protest rally in Sofia to accept a document

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Unfinished business 2: The Bulgarian government’s to-do list

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol

The abrupt resignation of Boiko Borissov’s government ahead of the end of its term leaves a list of unfinished business

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s political crisis and the next election: Who will win?

February 20, 2013June 20, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Call it an emotional reflex, a calculated political gamble, a calling of a bluff or a step taken in panic,

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Editorial: The Hamas visit sought only a theatre stage in Sofia for its tussle with Fatah

February 17, 2013February 17, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In the wake of Bulgaria’s expulsion of a group from Hamas, it is time for some clarity about the context

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Current affairs: Bulgaria and the politics of electricity

February 15, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer energy

Bulgaria’s centre-right government, facing national parliamentary elections at the beginning of July 2013, has little time at its disposal to

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News Perspectives World 

North Korean nuclear test turns spotlight on Iran

February 15, 2013May 22, 2013 Guita Aryan and Jeff Seldin of VOANews

North Korea’s nuclear test this week is also putting the spotlight on Iran, which has been moving forward on its

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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Fair or not?

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 Mark Thomas

If your train from Sofia to Stara Zagora or your bus from Rousse to Varna is cancelled due to snow

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