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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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Can the BBC pass its next test?

November 16, 2012November 16, 2012 Hector Poole

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?

November 16, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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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Russia Watch: Reset the Reset: Can Russia’s Putin make peace with Obama II?

November 13, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The reset jet no longer flies to Moscow. In March of 2009, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton,

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Public infighting opens among top Bulgarian clergy in Patriarch succession battle

November 12, 2012November 12, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Eulogies for the late Patriarch Maxim, the long-standing head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, praised him as a unifier –

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In memoriam: Maxim, Patriarch of three eras

November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 Momchil Metodiev

Patriarch Maxim is already part of history – not only the history of Bulgarian Orthodox Church, but of this society

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria to hit political turbulence over fighter jet purchase plans?

November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Days of silence have descended over the potentially controversial current plan by Bulgaria to go ahead with soliciting offers to

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Leisure Perspectives 

Woody turns serious

November 9, 2012November 8, 2012 Hector Poole

One of the gems of the Sofia Independent Film Festival was a documentary about Woody Allen. The diminutive, bespectacled nebbish

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Europe News Perspectives 

Russia Watch: New Kremlin headache: Democracy is alive and well in Ukraine and Georgia

November 4, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Vladimir Putin is suffering back pains and is cancelling foreign trips and his annual November press conference marathon. He may

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Of Kurdjali, heroes and honours

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian political and media circles have been in uproar for days about two incidents with serious emotional, ethnic and political

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