The Transnational Institute gathers experts from region to discuss “organizational models they use to resist academic, political and market pressures, and how they combine the task of analysis with that of organizing and building social power”.The Barricade
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An account of a civilizational downgrade.Veronika StoyanovaVeronika Stoyanova works as a Lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Her research focuses on theories of ideology and utopia, post-socialist studies, and Roma exclusion in Europe.
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The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was the guest of Paul Jay’s The Analysis podcast, discussing Bulgarian protests, the all-weather warm relations between Sofia and Washington, the Bulgarian acquisition of US war planes, the genesis of Bulgarian organised crime and oligarchy in the times of transition, the eternal Soros-Trump clash in Eastern
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The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was interviewed by the Danish organisation Democracy in Europe on the Bulgarian protests: their demands, the comparisons between the Bulgarian and the Romanian anti-corruption fights and protests, the role of the new left and its democratic innovations.Zlatko JovanovicZlatko Jovanovic has taught, has researched and has written
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Maria Cernat joined Yuri Smouter on his podcast 1+1 talking about Romania’s socialism, transition and contemporary societyThe Barricade
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Postcard From Bulgaria #1Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the Romanian website BARICADA Romania, which initially started as a Romanian language version of the Bulgarian portal by the same name. He
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