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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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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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Europe News Perspectives 

Watchdog slams Kosovo parliament decision on including media articles in criminal code

July 4, 2012July 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), deplores the June 22

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Bulgaria hosts World League finals amid unending controversy

July 3, 2012July 4, 2012 Hristina Dimitrova

Bulgaria hosting the annual World League final tournament was meant to be a glorious occasion – the first major international

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Bulgaria Europe News People Perspectives World 

Interview: Bulgarian FM Mladenov on Awakenings and transitions

July 3, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Nikolai Mladenov has a vision of the countries of the Western Balkans integrated into the European Union and Nato, and

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river boat near Kremlin buildings in Russia's capital city Moscow
News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Moscow – Turning Europe’s largest city into Eurasia’s world class city

July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Moscow is easily at its best in the summer – lots of green, less traffic, stylish clothes, plenty of energy,

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Media Wars 1: When the ink smears

June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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 News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Media Wars 2: The bashing of bTV

June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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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