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Five years after the sacrifice of Plamen Goranov, Bulgaria is still the same

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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A young man has died in vain and this is more, much more than a personal drama. February 20 is a date in recent Bulgarian history that cannot be overlooked. Five years ago on this...

Valentin Radomirski: I hope Bulgaria and Romania will manage to avoid being pushed into EuropeR..

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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The Barricade speaks to the former Bulgarian Ambassador in Bucharest about the Bulgarian and the Romanian presidency of the EU and about the dangers that the two countries face stemming from developments in the Black Sea...

Polish PM honours Gestapo collaborators

Boyan Stanislavski
History
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The right-wing madness in Poland deepens dangerously. On an official visit to Germany, the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has honoured Poles who were Gestapo collaborators and laid flowers on their graves. Appointing Morawiecki as...

Poland: Barbaric reality for the Ukrainian migrant workers

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Oxana is a Ukrainian citizen, who was working illegally in a fruit-processing plant near Swarzędz in Western Poland. After she suffered a stroke her boss first refused to call for help. He then dragged her...

Saakashvili in the center of yet another grotesque event

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The right-wing madness in Ukraine is mostly dangerous and sad, but thanks to personages like the infamous 'Eurasian Berlusconi' it sometimes appears comically pathetic. The former president of Georgia who used to be the great...

Teodor Meleşcanu: Romania strongly supports Black Sea regional cooperation

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The Romanian foreign minister answered Baricada's question at a joint press conference with the Bulgarian ambassador in Bucharest. [caption id="attachment_19179" align="aligncenter" width="275"] The Romanian foreign minister Teodor Meleşcanu (at the microphone at the front) explains...

Bulgaria: The schizophrenic battle of the Socialist party with itself

Nikolay Draganov
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The Bulgarian Socialist Party has been in decay for years. It is now trapped between an overwhelming nationalist narrative and its ignorant right-wing leadership. The results are grotesque. In a pitiful attempt to follow the...

New Year’s winds of war

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Another record of New Year’s pyrotechnical goods consumption was probably beaten this year. It is a pity though, that no one thought that we could spend one of the upcoming New Year’s Eves in nuclear...

Putin and then who?

Maciej Wiśniowski
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One cannot take the Polish media seriously. Especially when they "debate" Russia. A few days ago the TOK FM radio station in Poland featured a panel of political scientists and international affairs specialists discussing the...

Iranian protests demand that the authorities in Tehran take a new course

Vladimir Mitev
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Demonstrations put the status-quo under doubt, but the different groups define it differently. Iranian protests that started in the end of 2017 have made the American president Donald Trump happy. He expressed his support for...

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