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To elections with a song! Winners and losers in the Bulgarian parliamentary elections

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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On July 11, 2021, Bulgarians voted for the second time this year for parliament, as representatives of the parties elected in the first vote on April 4, 2021, failed to form a coalition. Last year,...

Hungarian reception of changing political scenes in Bulgaria and Moldova

Eva S. Balogh
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This morning I watched a fascinating interview with Árpád Székely, the former Hungarian ambassador to Moscow, who was asked what he thought of the Orbán government’s foreign policy. “What foreign policy? There is no such thing. There...

Why is xenophobia the most prevalent conviction in Bulgaria?

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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The Bulgarian population is rife with negative stereotypes about others — Turks, Roma, Jews, refugees, and sexual minorities. Anyone familiar with the situation on the ground will recognize that such sentiments have always been a...

The US has just begun a regime-change operation in Bulgaria! Who will be the new Viceroy?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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That's a difficult question to answer. There are numerous candidates. To be more specific, almost anyone could be a candidate. The American embassy in Sofia even went so far as to organize a casting call....

From the pandemic to a sea of ignorance

The Barricade
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The correlation between educational and social inequalities in Bulgaria has long been at the center of public debate. However, rarely do we hear reform proposals beyond the existing neoliberal educational model based on competition, decentralization...

The Freedom of the Press – A Value Worth Fighting for or a Geopolitical Tool?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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The Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index has released its annual report on the freedom of the press. Its findings prompted Philip Burov, a member of the editorial board of the Barricade, to write a...

Blackmail, racketeering, oligarchs and violence in Bulgaria. Discussing Borissov’s legacy w/..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Anti-corruption
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A heinous scandal is brewing in Bulgaria, with wealthy businessman and landowner Svetoslav Ilchovski at the center, who recently testified before a parliamentary commission about the Bulgarian PM's gangsterism. "The Barricade" has published a lengthy...

Another heinous scandal has erupted in Bulgaria. Will anyone notice?

Nikolay Draganov
Anti-corruption
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It all started on May 5th this year, when Svetoslav Ilchovski, a wealthy Bulgarian farmer and landowner, was summoned to testify before the temporary parliamentary committee investigating the wrongdoings of the Borissov cabinet. Svetoslav Ilchovski...

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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I could explain endlessly how desperate and hopeless the situation with the media in Bulgaria is, and how more and more often I regret that I took up the profession of journalism at all. That...

Hans Modrow: Gorbachev and his associates knew what they wanted to remove, but not what to build

The Barricade
Bulgaria
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Hans Modrow is known as the last "communist" prime minister of the German Democratic Republic. He was born in 1928 in the province of Pomerania, located in present-day Poland. At the end of World War...