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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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Russia Watch: Russia’s Political Summer Olympics – Putin x Pussy Riot

August 1, 2012August 1, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

In Moscow’s Political Summer Olympics, President Putin is on track this week to win the gold in a demanding event:

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Is email at death’s door?

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 Ted Landphair of VOANews

A lot of Internet tech talkers are preparing a coffin for electronic mail. Some are even shoveling dirt on it.

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Russia Watch: Linguistic future — Ukrainians who do not speak Russian?

July 27, 2012June 2, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

It’s a sunny summer evening here in Lviv, the café and cobblestones capital of Western Ukraine. But a steady stream

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Smoke and mirrors – tourism and the Olympics

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 Mark Thomas

May 26 2012 was just another sporting Saturday in London; a football play off with 60 000 spectators in attendance

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Russia Watch: Why does the Kremlin defend the suspects in the Magnitsky case?

July 20, 2012July 21, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Many countries have mafias. I’ve reported on gangsters in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. I’ve spent time mulling the human landscapes

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The ins and outs of the EU banking pact

July 19, 2012May 22, 2013 Adela Zabrazna for The Prague Post

Since its introduction in May by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the concept of an EU-wide banking union remains

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Commentary: Bulgaria’s perils on the path to a print media law

July 18, 2012July 18, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, annoyed at newspaper antics and alleging that some of his country’s journalists are “serving the

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Russia Watch: Moscow’s Friday the Thirteenth – Just a mid-summer horror movie?

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

While many Russians were relaxing at the dacha or lolling on beaches overseas, back home in Moscow the air conditioning

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s ‘Archon’ controversy: The power and the story

July 9, 2012July 7, 2012 Momchil Metodiev

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, decided on June 20 2012 to introduce the “honorary title of

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