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On November 14th Bulgaria held its third round of parliamentary elections after the first two rounds took place in April and July, and did not result in the forming of a government. For the first...
The elections in Bulgaria this past Sunday (November 14) raised the usual set of questions for anyone who has even tangentially followed the country's political process. Why, in the poorest country in the EU, devastated...
On 23 August 2017, I launched radosvetavassileva.blog to shed light on the lack of rule of law, the systemic and deliberate human rights abuses, and the rampant corruption in Bulgaria (most corrupt EU member according...
Bulgaria's transition from state-controlled socialism to capitalism and 'democracy' began as a ridicule of democracy and later devolved into a mockery of dictatorship. The latter were the nearly 15 years of Boyko Borissov's absolutist rule,...
“On the Barricades” continues its thumbs up and thumbs down with Youri Smouter - host of 1+1 show on YouTube. One of the topics is Donald Tusk’s return to Polish politics, will he be able...
This is the second part of a two-part discussion on Europe's growing authoritarian tendencies, especially in Eastern Europe. We'll talk about the West's hypocritical and selective response to this phenomenon in this segment. The EU,...
This is the first installment of a series of commentaries produced by The Barricade and The Analysis in collaboration. Journalists from Bulgarian, Romanian, and Polish left-wing media gather to discuss the situation in Eastern Europe...
The news was first reported in an interview with the Macedonian News Agency (MIA) by Daniel Serwer, an American expert on the Balkans. However, many Bulgarian media headlines about this issue are deceptive because they...
"The failure to change the world may not be unrelated to the failure to understand it." - Ray Brassier, Concepts and Objects There's an old Soviet joke from "Radio Yerevan" series popular in the 1950s....
We are excited to launch a new international media initiative - the Cross-Border Talks podcast will be co-hosted by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Strajk's deputy editor and author of numerous texts on Eastern European politics, and Vladimir...