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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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Bulgaria’s (not so) great vaccination debate

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

It is time to try to inject some logic into the controversy about the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Bulgaria.

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Bulgaria faces ‘rigged elections’ playbook challenge

January 13, 2021January 15, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2021

If there is one thing that Trump will leave in his aftermath – it cannot correctly be called a legacy

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As the insurrection in DC should not have happened, neither should the Lukov March in Sofia

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

It was starkly clear in that T-shirt among the domestic terrorists in the violent incursion in the Capitol this week:

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Christmas Eve in Bulgaria, 2020: Reflections on a silent night

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

It is Christmas Eve 2020 in Bulgaria. Some believe that about 2000 years ago, a child was born who would

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Notes from quarantine

November 21, 2020November 22, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

Sitting confined to my home in quarantine as a contact person, I immediately self-isolated – in the sense of changing

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Cheap nationalisms in North Macedonia issue cost Bulgaria leadership role in Balkans

November 17, 2020November 20, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

It was not that long ago, in 2018, when Bulgaria won praise in several quarters for using its presidency of

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Covid-19: What will happen to the cost of travel?

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 Mark Thomas tourism

What seems like an eternity ago, we were asked our opinion about which way the cost of travel would head

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Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo Ivanov, the corridors of power, and the street

October 11, 2020October 12, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The most recent Alpha Research poll, the results of which were released on October 5, gives Democratic Bulgaria, co-led by

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European Parliament vote, Alpha Research poll, are telling reverses for Bulgaria’s Borissov

October 9, 2020October 11, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, European Parliament

The indictments in the resolution voted by the European Parliament this week come on top of an Alpha Research poll

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