Russian democracy groups face tough times after USAID ouster
Russia has given the United States Agency for International Development until October 1, 2012 to close its operations and leave the country.
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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.
Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world
Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was
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M&A corner: Does your business need a valuation?
Business owners often ask themselves whether they need a business valuation, and, if so, what kind of valuation is required.
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Bulgaria’s smoking schizophrenia
Bulgaria, which a few months ago enacted tough new laws against smoking in public places, has vowed to defend its
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Thoroughly red in black and white: A journey through Bulgaria’s communist archives
The hours after midnight tread by unheeded in this journey through another era, another dimension in which the language of
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Fighting words: Bulgaria talks tough on Russian energy projects
Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to
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Financial crisis offers lessons for future
Four years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a huge financial firm, marked the start of the worst recession in
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Spy arrests raise Turkish-Iran tensions
The recent arrest by Turkey’s security forces of nine people accused of spying for Iran has increased tensions between the
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Russia Watch: Vlad in Vlad: Forging Russia’s first hot city on the Pacific Rim
The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at
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