Russia Watch: Back to the Future: 2012 US-Russia relations echo 1832
The U.S. Ambassador labored to get Congress to ratify a trade treaty that would grant “favored nation” status to Russia.
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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.
Journalists under attack – a call for action to improve journalists’ safety
A joint op-ed by Michael Spindelegger, Vice-Chancellor & Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria, and Alison Bethel McKenzie, Executive Director, The
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Analysis: Bulgarian government blunders hand ammunition to opposition
The unedifying spectacle that Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB government has produced in the saga of Veneta Markovska, the Constitutional Court judge
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Analysis: Petar Stoyanov and the political blues
At what may be officially if ironically termed a courtesy call on then-president Petar Stoyanov when Ivan Kostov was leaving
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Russia Watch: Judge a regime by its heroes: Moscow — 1962, Moscow 2012
For Moscow of 1962 – it was Yuri Gagarin. With his wide, easy grin, Gagarin was an internationally renowned poster
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The numbers game in the battle over a new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Counting up the number of metropolitans who have declared support for the interim leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, some
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Bulgaria’s constitutional quandary shows no sign of resolution
A day after Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev cut short the swearing-in ceremony of four new Constitutional Court judges – “to
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Can the BBC pass its next test?
The BBC, once seen as a bastion of excellence worldwide, especially in its news department, is now engulfed by crisis.
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Which group of ‘friends’ can win the EU budget battle?
If the topic of the European Union’s future budget does not interest you that much, the answer to the question
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