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On the Barricades (Podcast)

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

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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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,...

A leftist perspective on the victory of Maia Sandu’s party in Moldova

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Anti-corruption
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On July eleventh, both Bulgaria and Moldova held parliamentary elections. In this edition of our show, we shall discuss the landslide victory of the Party of Action and Solidarity. This is the political party of...

Conservatism and academia in Romania and Poland

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The idea of being forced by the neo-Marxist European and US forces to be politically correct is haunting the minds of Eastern European politicians. Their public display of fears and anxieties generated by this Apocalyptic...

Orban’s latest outburst against the LGBT community. w/ Emese Szilágyi

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Viktor Orbán, Hungary's prime minister, who has earned the reputation of being the EU's black sheep as a right-wing authoritarian, is now taking yet another step to reaffirm his government's ultra-conservative stance. This time, he...

Socialist realism! Let’s be serious about it w/ Jérôme Bazin

Frank Myonk - Maria Cernat
Art
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More than 30 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Anti-communism became a religion, and we were strongly discouraged from discussing anything related to the period prior to 1989, including the art...

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

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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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....

Eastern European leftist journalists dissect the Belarus situation

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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Aleksander Lukashenko has been the undisputed leader of Belarus for over 25 years. How is this even possible? Is it truly only through the plethora of dictatorial measures he employed during that time? Certainly not!...

Vijay Prashad explains the recent events taking place in India

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Coronavirus
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The Indian version of the Corona Virus was covered extensively during the past weeks in the mainstream media. The terrible images of people being cremated in the fields because the Indian crematoriums were no longer...

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...