The Barricade

14 April 2021 Vladimir Mitev

Bulgaria’s political system is a non-representative democracy

The 11 April 2021 episode of the On the Barricades podcast had as a guest the Bulgarian analyst Todor Todorov

13 April 2021 Mirena Filpova - Boyan Stanislavski

Non-representative democracy — season BG, episode 2021

The devastation will continue in Bulgaria after its April 2021 parliamentary elections

10 April 2021 Vladimir Mitev

Fereydoun Majlessi: Extremists did not allow Rouhani to keep his word

An interview with the pre-Revolution Iranian diplomat to the United States about the China-Iran ”comprehensive cooperation”, the relations of Iran with the West, the post-Trump Middle East and the place of Black Sea countries such as Romania and Bulgaria in Iranian foreign policy

7 April 2021 Vijay Prashad

Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

“We need cool heads to prevail. Anything other than that could lead to a catastrophic war,” says a senior UN official at the Department of Political and Peacekeeping Affairs.

4 April 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Feminism in Turkey – an Epic Battle With a Neoliberal Conservative President

On the Barricades podcast with İrem Kayıkçı

4 April 2021 Vladimir Mitev

EU-wide citizens’ initiative demands abolition of patents on anti-pandemic vaccines

The initiative is part of a wider international movement that seeks to define water, knowledge and algorithms as universally accessible public goods – as commons