Alternatives & Analyses: The State Oil Company of Bulgaria –the ultimate phase of state capture
The latest proposal of the Ministry of Finance for the establishment of a “State Oil Company,” featuring a network of
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Alternatives & Analyses: Does the Kremlin have any right to meddle in Bulgaria’s domestic affairs regarding Second World War monuments?
The topic of the Red Army ‘ wartime’ monuments ranked high up on the priority list of Russian Foreign Minister
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Alternatives & Analyses: NeoMalthusian Thoughts on the Coronavirus Pandemic
In my fifty-three years I have only posted four comments on articles. Georgi Marinov’s Reflections on the Corornavirus shared with
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Alternatives & Analyses: Bulgaria’s captured oil and gas market foretells a long and painful exit from the crisis
The collapse in the price of crude oil is good news for importing countries like Bulgaria. It immediately translates into
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Alternatives & Analyses : Vladimir Putin in the greatest gamble of his life – declaring energy war on the US
The price of Russian crude oil – Urals MED blend – in Europe fell to unprecedented levels since the financial
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Alternatives & Analyses : Gazprom agrees to reduce prices to Bulgaria – Fact check and Analysis
Gazprom has finally agreed to reduce gas prices and insert spot pricing in the formula that would lead to a
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Alternatives & Analyses: Erdogan’s problems in Syria are EU and NATO’s as well
Erdogan has blundered, and his current isolation is mostly self-inflicted. Instead of gaining middle ground and allies for a neo-Ottoman
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Alternatives & Analyses: Russia and Bulgaria defy EU and US sanctions on Turk Stream
The news from Ukraine about the reduced price of Naftogaz for natural gas at 3, 950 hryvnia/291 BGN per 1000
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Alternatives & Analyses: Political Economy of Complacency – the scandal with the unreported crude oil imports
The hot topic of the day, with immense repercussions, covers a possible manipulation of statistics on the import of crude
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Alternatives & Analyses: Bulgarian PM Borisov between the sickle and the hammer
Thursday, February 20th, was a stressful day for Bulgarian PM Borisov. A publication in the Spanish El Periodico revealed that
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