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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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.
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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Analysis: New poll shows disillusionment with Bulgaria’s Cabinet and major political parties
With about nine months to go to Bulgaria’s summer 2013 national parliamentary elections, the country’s centre-right Cabinet, ruling party and
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Socialist leader Stanishev wants voter turnout validity bar for Belene referendum lowered
With polls suggesting that a proposed national referendum on building a nuclear power station at Belene may be invalid because
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Macedonia: Looking upon lustration
It is unthinkable that anywhere in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe a process of public disclosures about those
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