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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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.
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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Russia Watch: After 20 years of US aid, Russia goes solo on controlling loose nukes
The day that Russia’s government decided last week to end its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, a
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US presidential debate: Obama fast and furious as Romney fluffs and flubs facts
In the swordplay in the second US presidential debate, it was Democratic candidate president Barack Obama who had the real
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M&A corner: EU and government subsidies – boon or bane to SMEs?
One should not look a gift horse in the mouth, as the saying goes, so forgive me if I raise
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Tales of two elections: Lithuania and Montenegro
Election results in the two European countries that vote in parliamentary elections on October 14 2012 are likely to be
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The Biden/Ryan debate: A victory for Ryan, but neither for substance nor for style
The vice-presidential election debate saw Republican Paul Ryan win in the soundbite stakes, including at least one carefully-enunciated zinger that
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Russia Watch: Charm alert: Georgia welcomes Russian tourists
Nervousness was in the air the other afternoon when my S7 Airbus, packed with Russian tourists, touched down at Tbilisi’s
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