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The mystery of unpaid prices – a series with Andrei Mocearov

The Barricade
Energy
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Part I - How we went from natural monopoly to market Energy, and especially energy prices, have been the subject of much debate recently. As not only our lives, but the entire economy is heavily...

“The solution to everyone’s problems lies in solving the problems of the many”

Maria Cernat
European Union
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Interview with Roberto Morea conducted for Baricada by Maria Cernat As I pointed out in a recent article, I had the opportunity to participate as a guest of Transform! Europe at the European Social Forum....

Postcard from Israel

Olga Stefan interviewed Israeli citizens on the day of the election The election on November 1 saw the highest voter turn-out in more than 20 years despite it being the 5th election in 4 years....

Ovidiu Țichindeleanu: Who speaks for our region?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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Interview with the Romanian philosopher about non-alignment as an option for the East of the European continent, regional internationalism and popular sovereignty. Originally published at Cross-Border Talks. Ovidiu Țichindeleanu is a philosopher and cultural theorist,...

The real Zelensky: From celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal

Natylie Baldwin
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha details Volodymyr Zelensky’s embrace of widely loathed neoliberal policies, his repression of rivals, and how his actions fueled the current war with Russia. A comedic actor who rose to the country’s...

EU’s externalization of borders enables geopolitical power plays using migrants as political pawns

Vladimir Mitev
European Union
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Ahlam Chemlali, is a PhD Fellow at DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies and Aalborg University, Global Refugee Studies in Copenhagen Denmark. Chemlali explores how the militarisation and externalisation of European border control to...

Reading Žižek in Tehran

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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In a world of capital words easily become cliche-ridden and therefore devoid of power to change anything. Whom should we rely on to challenge the status-quo? Kamran Baradaran - an Iranian translator of Slavoj Žižek,...

Anti-Iranian sanctions can be reduced, but will not be lifted completely

Vladimir Mitev
Economy & finance
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Mehdi Motaharnia (born 1965, Kashan) is a university professor with a background in sociology, political science, communication, futurology and security. He is a professor at Islamic Free University in Gom, central Tehran; in North Tehran...

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...

Fereydoun Majlessi: Extremists did not allow Rouhani to keep his word

Vladimir Mitev
China
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Fereydoun Majlessi is a former diplomat, who served in Washington DC and in Brussels in the European community before the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Since then he has been a manager and an entrepreneur, as...