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The week: Drained to zero
Bulgaria loves a scam, Big trouble brews for TurkStream and a Romanian Tik-Tok warning

How GERB built Putin a pipeline, part 2: the laundering road of 3 billion leva through an Arab company
Turkstream used offshore companies and the financial capacity of Gazprombank

How GERB built Putin a pipeline, part I: the Roadmap to circumvent the law (and Ukraine)
A new data leak exposes how the Borissov-3 gov’t facilitated the construction of the TurkStream pipeline across Bulgaria against the country’s own interests and EU procurement rules

The week: The Roadmap to Russian energy serfdom
How GERB sold out to Putin (before the war), Rotation stuck and who designs Beyonce’s clothes in BG

Will the caretaker gov’t start a U-turn on Russia?
On its second day in office, the new Bulgarian cabinet announced a course towards "containment of the chaos and destruction" in the energy sector. This might well translate as a pivot to Moscow

Bulgaria’s liberation from Russian gas
The apocalypse dreaded by many after Gazprom stopped its supplies to Bulgaria did not materialize – on the contrary, it became clear that Sofia can reduce its dependence on Moscow gas