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The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

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

Ruse truck parking scheme: Taki’s shadow at the Bulgarian-Romanian border
The private truck parking facility was launched by the municipality of Ruse and is linked to the same entities controlling the Kapitan Andreevo crossing at Bulgaria's border with Turkey

The week: No country for the old
The young have made it through, The rotation is now a centrifuge, Bulgarian football goes for old

The week: Beware the Greeks
Bulgaria and the Greek energy miracle, UK nukes and US nuclear power, Bansko's future

The week: How to revive the cities, 3 trends to follow, Varna’s polluted beaches
K Insights newsletter 01/09

Laundering Borissov, purging the secret services, coordinating with embassies: What froze cabinet talks?
A leaked discussion of WCC’s National Council has jeopardized government negotiations with GERB

The week: A few Brussels sprouts, Election after April Fool’s Day, Malkovich’s (costly) sell-out show
Brussels wants to know who's investing, Fool's day elections, waiting for John Malkovich

The week: The two types of entrepreneurs, How Nexo affected politics, Bulgaria cashes in on the markets
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The private border of Bulgaria and the EU
Kiril Petkov’s government suddenly collapses when it delves into the issue of a shady business operating on the border with Turkey for over a decade.

The week: The private border of Bulgaria and the EU, are we still on track for the euro and a stellar year for banks (so far)
K Insights 03/06: what happened with the refugees

Daniel Lorer: Bulgaria will look for, not wait for investments
The Minister of growth and innovation of Bulgaria says corruption is the biggest problem

Bulgarian politics enters chaotic fall
With parliament’s days numbered, uncertainty reigns - especially over the logistics of the third national election

A slap from across the ocean: US sanctions Delyan Peevski, Vasil Bozhkov, and Ilko Zhelyazkov
These actions represent the largest single act of sanctions in the history of the Magnitsky Act, targeting these three individuals and their networks encompassing 64 enterprises for "significant corruption"

Svetoslav Ilchovsky: These people steal from us relentlessly
The businessman who rocked Bulgaria’s parliament in its final days over allegations of high-level corruption speaks to Capital weekly

Bulgaria and Russia: a tale of two palaces
The Black Sea mansions of Vladimir Putin and Ahmed Dogan reveal a lot about the systems they created

Seventeen moments of autumn
The recent spate of "spying scandals" involving Russian diplomats and the leader of Bulgaria’s National Russophile Movement Nickolay Malinov are more reminiscent of a bad Soviet-era joke rather than a real espionage drama