This is the second instalment of this week's “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Maria, Boyan, and Youri discuss:...
The Roma population in Romania, 86% of whom live in appalling conditions that force children to beg and hunt through trash to survive, are the target of major, normalized racism by their non-Roma neighbors; similarly...
In this episode, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss the governments of Poland and Bulgaria strange decision to refuse to follow the payment methodology proposed by the Russians in exchange for natural gas delivery. The...
As the reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shown, Bulgaria is not ready for a new anti-war movement, despite the urgency of the task. The majority of people with some access to the public...
In the English-language world, the story from Panchatantra about the elephant and the blind wise men is popular. Each of them touched a certain part of his body and proclaimed that part to be the...
Four police officers were taken to the hospital, and several journalists were injured, after a crowd protesting the government's new anti-Covid measures became strange and violent in the Bulgarian capital's city center on January 12. According to...
Veronika Susova-Salminen is one of the members who worked on the project A Hundred Shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the Euro Peripheries with the support of Transform! Europe and the...
Here's the latest installment of our monthly thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs. This time, the period is November 2021. This episode is hosted by Youri Smouter, the host of the "1+1" show on YouTube and a long-time...
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...