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April thumbs ups and thumbs downs! w/ Maria Cernat & Boyan Stanislavski

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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Because it's the last Sunday of the month, the hosts of "On the Barricades" will discuss their April thumbs ups and thumbs downs. Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will address the situation in East Ukraine...

Bulgarian elections of 2021: repackaging the same old (TV) story

Jana Tsoneva - Georgi Medarov
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Bulgaria held inconclusive general elections on April 4, 2021. The hitherto center-right ruling party GERB won them but with a result preventing it from forming a government. A nascent anti-GERB coalition is shaping up in...

Bulgaria’s political system is a non-representative democracy

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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On April 4th the General Election was held in Bulgaria. Another stage of the political, social and cultural degradation and destitution was marked. This time the most emblematic element was the massive vote for a...

Non-representative democracy — season BG, episode 2021

Mirena Filpova - Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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On April 4 in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, 25% of voters supported Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's right-wing party, GERB. But new parties that campaigned on anti-corruption and COVID denial also did extremely well. The left's decline...

Bulgarian justice is a litmus test for developments in society

Vladimir Mitev
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The Bulgarian judiciary has been at the centre of political talks and clashes for more than nine months since the protests began in the summer of 2020. They erupted after prosecutors stormed the president's office,...

“Never again fascism!”

Nikolay Draganov
Bulgaria
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A march entitled "No Nazis on our streets" was held for another year in Sofia. Anarchist and other left-wing organizations from the country gathered in the center of the capital and held a joint anti-fascist...

Erdogan has no influence over Bulgarian Turks

Yuliana Metodieva
Bulgaria
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Mehmet Űmer is a former correspondent in Bulgaria for the Turkish newspaper Zaman, which was banned after the failed coup d’etat of 2016. Before that he was a professor of Turkish language in the high...

Lora Nenkovska: The Romanian Sofia Nădejde Awards are very much needed because women’s liter..

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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Lora Nenkovska is a lecturer on Romanian language and literature at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". She has translated into Bulgarian authors such as Matei Vişniec, Petru Cimpoeşu, Mircea Eliade, Dan Lungu, Claudiu Komartin, Elena...

The most relevant 2020 events for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans

Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă
Albania
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After almost two decades of intense European integration efforts, democratic performance throughout the region has not yet acquired the expected positive dynamic. The Zagreb Summit from May 2020, the first such event organised only online...

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

Veronika Stoyanova
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Few of the developments of the post-1989 transformation in Bulgaria were a result of popular democratic politics, much of it being part of the global turn towards neoliberal globalization. In some popular accounts in the...