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The Black Wednesday: Integrated Public Transport "Through The Looking Glass"
A 57-million euro project for better urban transport infrastructure that was due for completion in 2016, but still isn’t fully operational to this day

The Black Wednesday: A 13 Million Sports Hall With The Revenue Of A Corner-Store
The story of one of many government-built arenas designed not to support sport, but to boost friendly infrastructure companies

The Black Wednesday: The multimillion pit in the heart of Varna
How Varna Municipality paid 21 million euro in state money for a parking lot belonging to BSP mogul Georgi Gergov

The Black Wednesday: Taking its Toll
The first of a series of publications about the corruption that has plagued Bulgaria. How the state allowed gaps in the Road Toll system that cost taxpayers millions

The lost decade of Bulgaria
The governments of Boyko Borissov promised reform, but instead created an apparatus for extortion and clientelism

Gifts to The Wolf from Borissov’s third cabinet
A concessionaire gets an allowance instead of a penalty, a hotel is speedily being constructed with no documents, and a firm with 150 mln levs in debt is sold for 100 levs

Russia is back, Parliament is stuck, universities and politics don't mix well, and Sofia Airport is now private
K Insights 23/04: Some problems in the budget and a hope for sunshine in North Macedonia

An era is about to end, a TV showman rises and TurkStream has some dirty secrets
K Insights 09/04 : An earthquake in Bulgarian politics, the economy fares surprisingly well and a Wolf to beware of

Bulgarian stock exchange in 2020: COVID-19 and other disasters
The SOFIX index suffers worst drop since 2008, blue-chip stocks underperform broader market

K Insights: A new must-meet friend in Sofia, pandemic politics, where the road-money goes and a few really big tenders
Weekly newsletter 25-29 January

Bulgaria’s new factories
Investment projects worth less than 430 mln levs were announced in 2020 - a third of the amount in 2019

How Bulgaria let Covid-19 loose
After an ineffective first lockdown, the government sleepwalked into the second pandemic wave - with deadly consequences

The words you need to know this month
Have you ever posted something so stupid and embarrassing on your social media profile that your boss forbade you from posting anything ever again?

A toy war
How one toy retailer got mixed-up in anti-government protests and received an uninvited buy-out offer

Bulgarian Stock Exchange: blue chips underperform broader market in H1
Investors find safe-haven in REITs

What a waste
A large-scale Bulgarian business with international reach comes under unexpected attack from the prosecution