Russia Watch: Moscow’s Friday the Thirteenth – Just a mid-summer horror movie?
While many Russians were relaxing at the dacha or lolling on beaches overseas, back home in Moscow the air conditioning
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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.
Bulgaria’s ‘Archon’ controversy: The power and the story
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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Watchdog slams Kosovo parliament decision on including media articles in criminal code
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
Bulgaria hosting the annual World League final tournament was meant to be a glorious occasion – the first major international
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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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