Montenegro's official joining of NATO has prompted threats of "retaliatory action" from Russia. A couple of weeks ago the former Yugoslav republic became the 29th member state. The prime minister Markovic signed the joining protocol with US deputy secretary of state Thomas Shannon. Then Markovic met with president Trump and his VP, Pence. The ( Read more... )

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There's hardly a leader or politician left in the West Balkans, and "even wider" (as the Macedonians like to say), who's not willing to shout to Brussels: "Give me my European perspective back!" Indeed, there's wide-spread criticism to EU's behavior to our region coming from all countries in the vicinity. What's more, there are also warnings ( Read more... )

Here's the latest Internet fad that we've got here in BG lately. Some guy by the name of Kristian Kolev joined some friends living abroad, and they figured a way to keep connected with other members of their diaspora and share memories and impressions about the world and their homeland (nostalgia is strong in expats, no doubt). So they started an ( Read more... )

Hi folks! As a Friday offtopic, I'd like to point your attention to this tradition which we celebrate here in Bulgaria every Jan 6, which is Jordan's Day (we're very fond of our name days, they almost have the status and weight of birthdays; it's always nice to have twice as many reasons to drink and celebrate, right?) The ritual follows an old ( Read more... )

It may sound like a script for a shitty movie about a conspiracy against democracy. Some youngsters from a small town flood another country's election campaign with lies, affecting events at the other side of the world, and contributing to the election victory of a radical underdog candidate for whom far fewer people would have voted otherwise. A ( Read more... )

First, the context:
Oil Found in Bulgarian Black Sea Offshore Drilling

WARSHINGTON, The Land of the Brave and the Free. The US government has surprisingly announced that they’re planning drastic measures against Bulgaria because of suspicions that the tiny Balkan country is developing nuclear weapons with the help of Russia and North Korea.


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A popular showman with a huge ego who often likes to get involved in politics in my tiny God-forgotten country, has initiated a referendum on several questions that he believes are of national importance. Since we're going to have presidential elections next month as well, the vote will be combined with this referendum. After some reviewing from ( Read more... )

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Turns out, the war crime blame game is not so cut and dry, eh? The villain has turned out to be not-so-villainous, after all...

...And nobody cared. Still looking around the news-feeds and news aggregates, nobody is reporting on this essential news. Nobody anywhere near the top pages anyway. And the second-from-top pages. And third. It could be ( Read more... )