Russia Watch: The march of Moscow’s silent majority?
During my two-week vacation in the United States, American friends again and again looked at me intently, and then asked:
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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.
M&A corner: Mounting dangers in the US economy
Stephen Covey, in his acclaimed book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, uses an interesting analogy to distinguish between
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Will ‘Reset’ in US-Russia relations continue?
President Barack Obama has made better relations with Russia a cornerstone of his foreign policy. During his first administration, the
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Editorial: Bombing out
This is an election year in Bulgaria and campaigning is sure to include the aggressive and the bizarre – but
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Bulgaria’s relations with Macedonia: Reset or reverse?
Bulgaria has underlined time and again that it wants a reset of relations with Macedonia, calling on Skopje to end
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Armenia 2013: Sargsyan’s Presidential election and beyond
Amid all the uncertainties and difficulties facing Armenia, it appears to have the prospect of one certainty – that in
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Georgia 2013 and the vilifying of Saakashvili
If those behind a petition claimed to have a million signatures have their way, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will step
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Belene dominates live TV debate ahead of Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum that ‘isn’t’ about Belene
Belene, the nuclear power station that may not speak its name, was much mentioned in Bulgaria’s first live television debate
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Slovakia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the velvet split
Slovakia as we know it today celebrates 20 years of its existence on January 1, 2013. On this day in 1993,
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