Alternatives & Analyses: The Nagorno-Karabakh crisis and its ramifications
The ceasefire and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the conceded territories to Baku, followed by
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Analyses & Alternatives
Alternatives & Analyses: Biden’s victory forces Putin and Borisov to seek early completion of the Turk Stream in Bulgaria
There are many unusual pages in the Turk Stream saga in Bulgaria. Today one more was added with the rash
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Alternatives & Analyses: Mike Carpenter: Europe’s existential threat is the oligarchization of its politics.
Ilian Vassilev: Good morning, Michael! The election results are being disputed by both sides and the final result has not
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Alternatives & Analyses: US Solar Turbines delivers gas turbines for the Balkan-Turk Stream compressor stations defying US State Department warning
A visit by an investigative team of the Boetz NGO on the construction site of the Compressor Station ‘Rassovo’, one
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Alternatives & Analyses: Borisov’s casino politics
The news that the Bulgarian Government has mandated the Bulgarian Energy Holding to start negotiations with unidentified US companies a
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Alternatives & Analyses: Ukraine emerges a winner in the battle with Gazprom – the lessons for Sofia
Few could foresee that the Kremlin’s ‘pincer’ strategy on Ukraine would go bust, and instead of defaulting, the Ukrainian gas
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Alternatives & Analyses: Europe has its problems, Bulgarians need Self-Liberation
Thoughts after the debates on the rule of law in Bulgaria in the European Parliament. Realism in politics is often
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Alternatives & Analyses: PM Borisov avoids meeting the top US energy diplomat – the message and the consequences
The news of the failed meeting between the highest-ranking American energy diplomat Francis Fannon and the Bulgarian Prime Minister could
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Alternatives & Analyses: Borisov’s all out gamble to sell TurkStream to the U.S
The Southern Gas Corridor situation gets tenser as it approaches the date of its first gas delivery of Azeri gas
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Bulgarian Russophiles form a party – Part Two
The protests’ anti-corruption drive will reduce Russian influence Kremlin’s quandary stems from the reality that the corrupt model’s dismantling in
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