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Lorand Szakacs: The group „Right to the City” fights against stigmatisation of the poor

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_16342" align="alignleft" width="375"] Lorand Szakacs (photo: Vladimir Mitev)[/caption] Lorand Szakacs is a member of the group “Right to the City”, which deals with the editing and printing of the “Stradă (Street) Magazine”. The organisation...

From modern despair to traditional slavery

Nikolay Draganov
Bulgaria
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The news about Bulgarian seasonal workers being treated like slaves in Italy grasped the headlines recently. This time the topic boils for a bit longer as the news were followed with an extensive reportage by...

Bulgarian Border Police car. Source: Wikimedia Commons, https://goo.gl/yWJ938

Leading Bulgarian nationalist admitted in court she was smuggling migrants

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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The former chairperson of the NFSB (Национален фронт за спасение на България) in the town of Kostinbrod, Aneliya Veleva (Анелия Велева), pleaded guilty to the charges for complicity in human traffic, aiming to receive a...

Two Iranian Studies events in Sofia pledge regional cooperation

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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Globalisation and regionalization don’t depend only on economic issues, but can be spurred also by purely cultural and scientific interests. This is what two Iranian Studies events in Sofia showed in the middle of September....

Outrage in Bulgaria: High school graduation is at risk for thousands of students

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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[caption id="attachment_24" align="alignleft" width="278"] The main entrance to the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science at Knyaz Dondoukov Blvd. in Sofia.[/caption] Another landmine is about to set off in the education system because of the...

Riccardo Petrella: Financial dictates led the EU to failure and drove the world to devastation

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Riccardo Petrella is an Italian economist who has been a scientific and technology policy analyst to the European Commission between 1979 and 1995, becoming witness and a voice of dissent over the EC’s definition of...

Will the Polish ‘Mein Kampf’ be out soon? No, not a translation – a new book

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Jacek Międlar, well known Polish catholic fundamentalist, racist and antisemitic figure idolized by the Polish right-wing youth made a new shocking statement. He will write a book called 'My Struggle'. In the past he called for...

Patrick Chalmers: The problem is representative democracy, the solution is journalism and democrat..

Vladimir Mitev
Global affairs
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This is the second part of the interview that Patrick Chalmers gave Baricada, the first part being available here. Patrick Chalmers is a Scottish journalist who worked for Reuters for 11 years (1994-2005) as a...

Patrick Chalmers: The problem is representative democracy, the solution is journalism and democrat..

Vladimir Mitev
Global affairs
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Patrick Chalmers is a Scottish journalist who worked for Reuters for 11 years (1994-2005) as a foreign reporter with postings in London and Kuala Lumpur, and reporting assignments elsewhere. During that period he covered the...

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Lorand Szakacs: The group „Right to the City” fights against stigmatisation of the poor

From modern despair to traditional slavery

Leading Bulgarian nationalist admitted in court she was smuggling migrants

Two Iranian Studies events in Sofia pledge regional cooperation

Outrage in Bulgaria: High school graduation is at risk for thousands of students

Riccardo Petrella: Financial dictates led the EU to failure and drove the world to devastation

Will the Polish ‘Mein Kampf’ be out soon? No, not a translation – a new book

Patrick Chalmers: The problem is representative democracy, the solution is journalism and democrat..

Patrick Chalmers: The problem is representative democracy, the solution is journalism and democrat..

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