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The week: Varna’s promise, Sofia’s divide, WCC's suspicious Brussels move, BG Football's dictator moment
K insights newsletter: 10.11

A Russian Oligarch’s Son and his Plovdiv Odyssey: Part II
Two years after the arrival of Russian oligarch’s son Anton Zingarevich, the finances of the leading Plovdiv football club in Plovdiv are a mystery

Angela Rodel: "The past can become dangerous when it becomes collectivized, shallow and sold back as propaganda"
The translator of the award-winning novel by Georgi Gospodinov talks linguistics, the dangers lurking in the collective past and how Bulgaria has changed in the past 20 years

The week: Goodbye to the euro, see you again sometimes?
Is the euro coming at all, the Russian assets in Bulgaria are in for a freeze, trouble at the European prosecution

Bulgaria: the election season is far from over
More parties and new coalitions promise to enter the next contest, which looks set for 2 April

The week: The best place to start fighting the corruption, Don’t count a coalition before it’s hatched, Crypto collapse
A fatal crash exposes depth of state capture, No gov’t + crypto layoffs and M&As

The week: A new coalition was born, the billions for the road cartel were halted, what the hell has gone wrong with the Bulgarian army
"We will bring you down", we have 2.5 billion reasons to do so + an MP not afraid of going back to her village

The week: 100 days of hell, the missing half a billion and a mysterious crash at a large dam
A baptism of fire, a new port on the Aegean and an ambassador worth throwing out

Tanks, refugees and unicorns - last week was one to remember
The Russian counterattack in the EU and Bulgaria is just starting. We have a unicorn startup, though

Getting rid of Geshev, Tsatsarov and the specialized courts: What’s up with the judicial reform
The new authorities appear committed to oust the acting Prosecutor General, repair the anti-corruption organs and eliminate specialized magistracy

Bulgaria enters new Covid wave with no restrictions, few vaccinations and rising deaths
The caretaker government is reluctant to implement its own anti-pandemic plan, fearing a backlash from business and the public

The secret 100 million euro investment of Russian billionaire Vagit Alekperov
The president of Lukoil is behind the fund that bought Bulgaria Mall and office buildings in 2018

The rise of the showman
Who is Slavi Trifonov, the new kingmaker in Bulgarian politics, and what does his rise portend?

Elections 2021: GERB wins the vote but loses power
Relatively high voter turnout and mobilization of Bulgarian voters abroad ushered in a fragmented parliament with at least three new anti-status quo forces

Setting the scene for 2021: what to expect in the political field
Socialist opposition tries to sharpen its teeth, but the surge of smaller parties is promising a fractured parliament