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    From Kyrgyzstan to Bulgaria in the footsteps of our ancestors
    Sep12

    From Kyrgyzstan to Bulgaria in the footsteps of our ancestors

    Kyrgyzstan, located in the Tian Shan Mountains in Central Asia, is little known in Bulgaria. Except, perhaps, with Lenin peak and the peak of Khan-Tengry located on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, climbed by Bulgarian alpine climbers. And yet one of the pearls scattered around the world from the necklace of the Bulgarian people can...

    Will Trump Threaten to Pullout or De-fund the United Nations?
    Sep11

    Will Trump Threaten to Pullout or De-fund the United Nations?

    World leaders have been urged to stay home in the first “virtual” UN General Assembly sessions in the 75-year history of the United Nations. The annual high-level sessions, with mostly pre-recorded video speeches, begin September 22. The UN says there will be “no marvelling at seemingly endless presidential motorcades on First Avenue and no...

    [Ticker] MEPs demand Ukraine protect LGBTI marches
    Sep11

    [Ticker] MEPs demand Ukraine protect LGBTI marches

    A group of 35 MEPs from the European Parliament’s LGBTI Intergroup has urged the government and police in Ukraine to guarantee protection for the upcoming Pride marches in Kharkiv and Zaporizhia. “The situation of anti-LGBTI counter-protests, which are often violent, is unfortunately not new to Ukraine, and therefore the police...

    Why Germany can’t say no to Nord Stream
    Sep11

    Why Germany can’t say no to Nord Stream

    BERLIN — At the center of Germany’s debate over what do about Nord Stream 2 lies this simple question: Does the country really even need a second 1,230 kilometer Baltic pipeline? As a German might say, jein (yes and no). The fate of the €10 billion project, which though nearly complete has been delayed by U.S. interventions, is hanging in...

    Angela Merkel is losing patience with Vladimir Putin
    Sep10

    Angela Merkel is losing patience with Vladimir Putin

    VLADIMIR PUTIN and his officials refuse to utter the name of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s leading opponent, in public. But in Berlin, where Mr Navalny has been recuperating in hospital since his poisoning in Siberia on August 20th, he is the talk of the town. Mercifully, on September 7th he emerged from a medically induced coma. German...

    Abducted Kolesnikova ‘told she was leaving Belarus dead or alive’
    Sep10

    Abducted Kolesnikova ‘told she was leaving Belarus dead or alive’

    Kolesnikova claims to have been bundled into a minibus and taken to the Belarus-Ukraine border but tore up her passport to avoid being forced from the country. …read more Source::...

    Lithuania, Ukraine hold same position on situation in Belarus, Nauseda says  – The Baltic Times
    Sep10

    Lithuania, Ukraine hold same position on situation in Belarus, Nauseda says – The Baltic Times

    VILNIUS – Lithuania and Ukraine are holding the same position on the situation in Belarus and are calling for a new fair election in the n…… …read more Source:: The Baltic...

    Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 186
    Sep09

    Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 186

    Almost one-fifth of Bulgarian patients with active Covid-19 infection admitted to hospital 167 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 3,923 PCR tests performed. 4.26% of all PCR tests have returned positive, data from the Single Coronavirus Information Portal show. The number of newly registered cases is highest...

    Why the Internal Market Bill makes a no-deal Brexit much more likely
    Sep09

    Why the Internal Market Bill makes a no-deal Brexit much more likely

    A change to the Irish border protocol would not be a “limited” tweak to international law. How unusual is the government’s plan to break international law in a “specific and limited way” with the Internal Market Bill, and is the government really planning to do it? Those are the questions being raised in today’s papers, and by MPs,...

    Ukraine and Poland, safe havens for Belarusian dissidents
    Sep09

    Ukraine and Poland, safe havens for Belarusian dissidents

    One month ago, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed to have won a sixth term in office with over 80 percent of the vote. Amid widespread claims that the victory was fraudulent, protesters took to the streets. But the authorities responded with a wave of repression. Facing threats, scores of dissidents decided to flee to neighbouring...