It’s Ilchovski-gate this time. A very typical story from Bulgaria during the reign of Boyko Borissov. It’s about blackmail, racketeering, feuds between oligarchs, escort girls, gold bars, stock speculation, and businessmen – some loyal to Borissov and others attempting to dissent. Get this and a lot more of the cheap
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Corruption and supposed efforts to reduce it have become a neoconservative weapon of choice with which to operate the controls on the funding sluice gates to acolytes of the U.S.-led international neoconservative empire.Oliver Boyd-BarrettOliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and at California State Polytechnic University,
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Bulgaria’s national and international political contradictions revolve around corruption and the rule of law.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the Romanian website BARICADA Romania, which initially started as a Romanian language
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Protesters against foreign intervention in the country are smeared as ‘unpatriotic’, ‘pro-Russia’, and ‘communists’The Barricade
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Postcard from Romania #2Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences (FJSC) (2001) and the Faculty of Philosophy (2004) at the University of Bucharest. She obtained an MA from FJSC in 2002 and in 2008 she got her PhD in Philosophy. She is currently
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The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was the guest of Paul Jay’s The Analysis podcast, discussing Bulgarian protests, the all-weather warm relations between Sofia and Washington, the Bulgarian acquisition of US war planes, the genesis of Bulgarian organised crime and oligarchy in the times of transition, the eternal Soros-Trump clash in Eastern
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