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Finally a regular cabinet: a strange GERB-led coalition
TISP and BSP join forces with their nominal top nemesis and, with the help of Dogan’s MRF, push through an ordinary government
The week: The worst believers in the world, A historical debacle, John Malkovich enrages Bulgarian writers
K Insights Newsletter 25/10
Elections #7: The only campaign is the parallel state one
Parties are engaged in lackluster, almost absent electioneering, while the only real confrontation is between the two MRFs
The week: Rocket men or how we are sabotaging ourselves
5 bln. euros down the drain, A Bulgarian military drone, and Peevski's list is out
How Renew Europe’s enticement of WCC got MRF nervous
The movement feels threatened from the combined prospects of the new party challenging its place in the European liberal family and new sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act
The real influence of Russia in Bulgaria, part 2: The real players
In the second article of a two-part series, KInsights explores how Putin’s war in Ukraine exposed that Bulgarian politics remains hostage to a powerful pro-Kremlin network holding key positions in the state
The week: The Belarus summer of Bulgaria, a minister’s Canadian link and a coming new lockdown
K insights 20/08: Inflation quickens; COVID cases rise
Boyko Borissov is stirred; but not yet shаken
Expectations that the May 2019 European Parliament elections would trigger a dramatic crisis of confidence in Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party following the real estate scandal did not materialize
Bulgarian parties gear up for election year
The European Parliament elections this spring will be a grand rehearsal for the local elections in the autumn – and possibly a snap vote
A dance with anti-liberalism
There are enough signals that Bulgaria is on the verge of joining the illiberal camp of Hungary and Poland in the EU, yet the government dare not take the final step
Bulgaria's media-industrial complex
Bulgarian politicians helped create Delyan Peevski’s media empire, but now fall prey to its unrestrained influence and his demands
A New Image for Mr Peevski
A film production company is set to buy half of the newspaper business of the Bulgarian media mogul
No immediate threats loom on the horizont
But social discontent from increasing social inequality could erode the support for ruling coalition in the mid to long term