Talking dirty
What is Russian president Vladimir Putin up to in Ukraine now? Nothing clean, you can be sure. After eight months
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Analyses & Alternatives
Turk Stream Revisited: Putin’s new gamble
In the immortal words of Boney M: “Oh those Russians!” And, come to that: “Oh those Bulgarians!”. They seem to
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Back-door Russian gas for Bulgaria?
Bulgarian president Rumen Radev’s caretaker government is secretly restoring Russian gas imports through the back-door device of LNG deliveries. Exposing
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Is the US to blame for Europe’s high gas prices?
European politicians do not shine with a particular ability to make causal links. The German economy minister last week lashed
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Boyko bounces back?
The results of Sunday’s parliamentary election – Bulgaria’s fourth in just 18 months – were, predictably, complicated. But a government
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Vladimir’s last throw – and why it won’t work
In memoriam Vasko Nachev The recent declaration of “partial mobilization” in Russia means that Vladimir Putin is reacting to the
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Downfall: The last days of Vladimir?
Russian president Vladimir Putin has failed in Ukraine and his vaunted army is in undignified retreat. His failure and the
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Rejecting a lifeline
The recent decision of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s caretaker cabinet to turn down the US company Cheniere’s offer of seven
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Russia-EU confrontation: the worst is yet to come
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
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A tale of two gambles
Copyright by Shutterstock/RosnaniMusa) As German chancellor, Angela Merkel gambled by accepting Russian geopolitical risk. It’s now clear that she lost
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