Public infighting opens among top Bulgarian clergy in Patriarch succession battle
Eulogies for the late Patriarch Maxim, the long-standing head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, praised him as a unifier –
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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.
In memoriam: Maxim, Patriarch of three eras
Patriarch Maxim is already part of history – not only the history of Bulgarian Orthodox Church, but of this society
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Bulgaria to hit political turbulence over fighter jet purchase plans?
Days of silence have descended over the potentially controversial current plan by Bulgaria to go ahead with soliciting offers to
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Woody turns serious
One of the gems of the Sofia Independent Film Festival was a documentary about Woody Allen. The diminutive, bespectacled nebbish
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Russia Watch: New Kremlin headache: Democracy is alive and well in Ukraine and Georgia
Vladimir Putin is suffering back pains and is cancelling foreign trips and his annual November press conference marathon. He may
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Of Kurdjali, heroes and honours
Bulgarian political and media circles have been in uproar for days about two incidents with serious emotional, ethnic and political
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Russia Watch: Is Russia’s Putin a secret fan of Mitt Romney?
The conventional wisdom is that the Kremlin would like to see Barack Obama back in the White House next year.
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Plans aplenty, but little certainty for nuclear power in Eastern Europe
The proposed nuclear power plant at Belene has dominated public discourse in Bulgaria in recent weeks and with good reason,
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The Belene nuclear project, Bulgaria’s radioactive political issue
The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly
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