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The international civil society and the UN General Assembly’s special session on COVID-19 pandemic

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, We hereby take the liberty of drawing your attention and solicit your support – a signature – to the initiative of our international citizens’ association the Agora of the Inhabitants of...

The Belarussian protests and its media coverage

Vladimir Mitev
Belarus
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[caption id="attachment_2590" align="alignleft" width="272"] Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, source: Facebook[/caption] Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat is a Polish journalist and expert on Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She is the deputy editor of the Polish left media platform Strajk...

Union Save Neoliberalism

We have a funny party here called Save Romania Union. They behave as if someone imported them straight from 1995! Their obsession with “managers”, “experts” and the general belief that quality of politics depends exclusively...

The great mishandling: Covid-19 in Eastern Europe and some usual colorful pathologies

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have lost all control in terms of the ongoing pandemic. The contractions as well as the mortality rates are horrifying. The powers that be have other priorates. For example in Poland...

Don’t Let the Legacy of the Karabakh Movement Be Forgotten

Francesco Trupia
Global affairs
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Some may notice how the latest agreement signed by Pashinyan, Aliyev and Putin has finally ended the brutal and cruel Nagorno-Karabakh War. Others may add that today’s scenario offers a glimpse of an end to...

The West — Lukashenko’s unrequited love

Vladimir Mitev
Belarus
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Trump is out, but the American nightmare remains

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Elections
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Trump seems to be out, so Vladimir Putin can be restored as the #1 problem of humanity. Will Biden provide a welcome sense of relief for America and the world? Will there be a return...

The Romanianization of Bulgarian politics

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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Since the outbreak of the Bulgarian protests in the summer of 2020, Bulgarian political issues have become more and more similar to the Romanian ones. The similarities are not just related to the aspirations of...

Poland’s war on women continues

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The recent ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland is the latest episode in the 30-year long war on women in that country. It is disgusting and outrageous but it is a part of a...

Poland: Time to abolish the codgerstate

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The ongoing protests in Poland are not merely a breath of fresh air. They have already made a significant imprint on the entire public sphere and thrown the ruling elites into panic and desperation; not...