Louis Vuitton bags, millions of euro and no sign of corruption: the Bozhkov lottery story

The full text of the decree terminating the case for extortion of the mogul by Boyko Borissov and Vladislav Goranov gives a detailed chronology of the affair, but won’t reach court

Bulgaria in 2023: The year in review

KInsights’ chronology of a turbulent year - and on what’s to come

The week: The year ends on a high with a Budget and a Constitution, A ship company in trouble, and Russia gets slapped twice

K Insights Newsletter 22/12

Gas tax for Schengen freedom? A last-ditch attempt to break the Austrian deadlock

The leaders of the parliamentary majority drop the controversial fee in exchange for last-minute entry into the free travel zone, but full membership is unlikely

The week: To leave or not to leave, that’s Lukoil’s question

Russian oil derogation shenanigans, Bulgarian PISA tower crumbles, good times for bankers and farmers

The day in 3 news: Lukoil hunts for buyer; Bulgaria was net electricity importer last month; Only 36% would vote in elections

The week: A 7.5 tremor in the non-coalition

Tremors in the coalition, Budget is in, Mihailov is out and Zakharova is pissed

What will happen to Bulgaria’s oil market after derogation ends?

The debate is whether the derogation should end immediately or not

Protests, corruption and hiding from fans: Bulgaria’s football reaches a boiling point

Bulgarian football is going down for years, but the exclamation point is now

What if your business data was stored in an American cloud instead of a European one?

A new EU rule that aims to strengthen digital sovereignty may put smaller European companies relying on the US tech giants at risk

The week: No country for new dogs

What Plovdiv teaches us about Bulgaria, 50 Shades of grey money, and some horror (thankfully, on the screen)

Bulgaria is still a captured state. The machine voting debacle proved it

The last-minute alteration of the voting rules showed that Bulgaria remains governed by a corrupt Mafia

The biggest Bulgarian energy companies: war tastes like money

Local elections, round 1: GERB loses Sofia, keeps Burgas and draws in Plovdiv and Varna

The ballot was marred by a fabricated scandal that eliminated machine voting

The week: A very sudden twist

Slapping Russia in the face, Borissov is not corrupt, Open-air teaching gets a boost

Winter is coming: Bulgaria levies 10 euro per MWh tax on Russian gas transport and transit in Europe

Bulgaria adopts tariff on Russian gas that might see the price of Russian gas supplies soaring throughout Europe

The week: Bulgaria's coal reckoning - this is not the 80's

Why Stara Zagora is no Yorkshire, what the hell is happening on the housing market and a Bright Mind

The new anti-corruption law in Bulgaria: what you have to know and will it work this time around

The newly established anti-graft institution was approved by Parliament last Thursday, but it is already signposted with red flags

How 400 million levs in uncollected fines contribute to Bulgaria’s road carnage

The lack of control and sanctions to enforce the right-of-way for pedestrians at crosswalks lead to less revenue for the state - and more casualties

The week: More than one storm brewing in the Black Sea, Brussels’ pressure and TurkStream revelations

Bulgaria, where natural catastrophes meet ungovernability