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The new transport corridor between China and Europe crosses Bulgaria
Central Asia's transport corridor is getting more important due to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine

A festival summer: KInsights’ guide to the top music in Bulgaria this holiday season
Festivals and concerts return to the country after two years of Covid

Bulgarian cities’ plans for the next 7 years: between dreams and reality
Spending plans of Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Varna and Burgas are dominated by old ideas

The week: It's all going well if you are a bank, but not if you're a mayor, and a small village has a big waste problem
The honeymoon ends fast for the new government, economic optimism rises

Bulgaria mulls options for Plovdiv Airport
A concession may be offered again after four unsuccessful attempts

Plovdiv and its dream
Plovdiv Municipality has had plans for an urban railway, or S-Bahn as the Germans call it, for 30 years.

The week: A Mayor’s portrait, Hospitals are crumbling, and a Chef goes astray
If your city is not ok, blame it on us; elections are here

The Week: Plovdiv wins clean air battle, no cabinet in sight and an Olympic gold
Can you clean Plovdiv in a year, why industry in Bulgaria shut down for a week and who jumped into the deep end of politics

Journalists SLAPPed, threatened and pressured; cabinet purges "kalinki", while Left and Right gear up for elections
The troubles of being a journalist in Bulgaria, every final decision is penultimate and who are the ladybirds of the administration

The deals of 2020: Few and far between
The pandemic practically froze the M&A market. Buyers are still mostly local faces

The courier drone
Bulgarian startup Dronamics has begun building its network of partner airports for drone deliveries

Decisions for the next decade, vaccines for the next week and a small city you should put on your maps
K Insights 26/02: 2020 wasn't that bad, why a heating company is listing on the stock exchange

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

The last strong year
The revenues and profits of the largest companies in Bulgaria increased rapidly last year but the Covid-19 crisis has put an end to a decade of growth

The Other Southwest
Blagoevgrad still lurks in Sofia’s shadow despite its position in the economically affluent Southwest