Bulgaria hosts World League finals amid unending controversy
Bulgaria hosting the annual World League final tournament was meant to be a glorious occasion – the first major international
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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.
Interview: Bulgarian FM Mladenov on Awakenings and transitions
Nikolai Mladenov has a vision of the countries of the Western Balkans integrated into the European Union and Nato, and
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Russia Watch: Moscow – Turning Europe’s largest city into Eurasia’s world class city
Moscow is easily at its best in the summer – lots of green, less traffic, stylish clothes, plenty of energy,
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Bulgaria’s Media Wars 1: When the ink smears
The press barons of Bulgaria are whacking each other with rolled-up newspapers, figuratively speaking, in a media war with profound
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Bulgaria’s Media Wars 2: The bashing of bTV
The slogan of bTV, Bulgaria’s most-viewed privately-owned television channel, is “all points of view”. The channel, which ratings claim to
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Russia Watch: Putin the Permissive and Russian football hooligans
The world may indeed be flat. Several thousand Russians recently traveled to the western edge of their country – and
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Paltry prospects for Bulgaria’s new political parties
An opinion survey in June 2012 said that Bulgarians – who are about a year away from national parliamentary elections
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News Analysis: What’s next for Europe’s left?
As France’s newly elected socialist President Francois Hollande settles into the Élysée Palace, bolstered by comfortable socialist majority in that
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A bystander at the Balkans International Wine Competition
On the second floor of the Grand Hotel Sofia, the room was crowded. Too crowded. But what had I expected?
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