Will the West blink first in Putin’s brinkmanship game?
Photo from UNIAN Si vis pacem, para bellum Vladimir Putin’s ability to raise the ante in standoffs to levels where
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Author: Analyses & Alternatives
GERB in the European realm of climate ambitions
Image Source : Liv Oeian / Shutterstock.com Deputy Prime Minister Donchev confided the winning party GERB’s willingness to leave the presentation
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Alternatives & Analyses: The Kremlin – new ambassador, old prejudices
Perusing articles in one of Kremlin’s ‘official’ media outlets – RIA Novosti – I was stuck with an obtrusive headline
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Alternatives & Analyses: Borisov’s era in Bulgarian politics is over
The April 4th elections provide many clues on where Bulgaria is heading but more queries have emerged. The only sure
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Alternatives & Analyses: To not alienate voters, natural gas prices are likely to shoot up on the day after the elections
Photo credit: [Tolga Bozoglu/EPA/EFE] Borissov brags about his gas pipelines. He’s got a case, achieving more than Chancellor Merkel. He
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Alternatives & Analyses: Delyan Peevski – Bulgaria’s Kolomoisky?
Delyan Peevski, in many ways, looks like the necessary culprit, the lightning rod of the model that rules Bulgaria. His
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Alternatives & Analyses: The Spy scandal in Bulgaria’s political autotomy
The claim of an unqualified and unprecedented success of the Bulgarian counterintelligence communicated to the public as a significant pre-elections
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Alternatives & Analyses: Biden called Putin a “killer” – fasten your seat belts
(AFP photo) Russia has recalled its ambassador to the US back home for consultations. This move is a prelude to
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Alternatives & Analyses: Borisov contemplates a detour in Bulgaria’s foreign policy?
Watching PM Borissov’s lead avatar, Georgi Harizanov, lambast the two US senators’ bipartisan critical statement of Borisov’s rule provides a
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Alternatives & Analyses: From Lukanov to Borisov – the oligarchization of the Bulgarian energy sector
At the very start of Bulgaria’s transition, the then PM Andrei Lukanov and the Communist party nomenklatura designed and implemented
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