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The elections are finally here, World Bank and the US criticize Bulgaria, tourism is down 70%
K Insights 02/04: the lockdown ends; how to buy something that doesn't have a price

Budget revenues rise even during the pandemic
Bulgaria’s budget gap widened in 2020 but the worst forecasts failed to materialize

Bulgaria's budget in crisis
Balanced fiscal policy takes a sharp turn towards rapid spending in the hope of election win next year

Geshev Unchained
The new Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev moved into first gear from the outset, picking fights with oligarchs, rural criminals and even the president himself. Is he aiming at something bigger than just crime busting?

Jock Palfreeman’s long fight for justice
The story of a young Australian who had to go through the failings of the Bulgarian justice system

Bulgarian Air Force finally gets on a westbound flight
The parliament ratified a deal to purchase eight new F-16 US made fighter jets

Hijacking the Military Intelligence Service
Prosecutors change the chief of the most secretive and professional Bulgarian security service

Bulgaria embarks on a massive rearmament program without clear priorities
The process of selecting a new jetfighter for the Air Force has demonstrated the Ministry of Defense’s inability to manage complex projects

Back to basics: Nationalists vs Roma
Now that most asylum seekers have left Bulgaria, far right parties are turning to their favorite scapegoat – the stigmatized Roma minority

The strange new look of Bulgaria’s biggest business association
KRIB has become a quasi-state structure under the chairmanship of Kiril Domuschiev

Behind the prosecution’s smokescreen
The sudden flurry of conspicuous law enforcement activities is a two-pronged campaign

The Mayor with Luminescent Hands
Desislava Ivancheva rose to fame as an anti-status quo mayor of a Sofia district and fell in the first publicity stunt of the newest institution supposed to fight high-level graft in Bulgaria