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Ukraine: Zelenskiy bans three opposition TV stations
Ukraine has banned opposition news channels for five years by revoking their broadcast licences and blocking assets. Three pro-Russian TV stations are affected. …read more Source:: Deutsche...
Ukraine shuts TV channels it accuses of spreading ‘Russian disinformation’
President Volodymyr Zelensky claims 112, NewsOne and ZIK pose risk to national security …read more Source:: Financial...
The Economist: Bulgaria Continues to Fall into the Group of “defective democracies”
The Economist: Bulgaria continues to fall into the group of “defective democracies” Bulgaria continues to deteriorate and has already moved to the bottom half of the “defective democracies” category. The Economist Intelligence Unit explains this in its annual ranking of the state of democracy in the world in 2020. The...
How the west can help Alexei Navalny without damaging his cause
Five months after agents of the FSB, the Russian Security Service, tried to murder him with a Novichok nerve agent, Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow and was immediately arrested. His treatment is not the only instance of the flagrant abuse of human rights which characterises President Putin’s regime. But it is the one which has...
Why Europe’s Covid-19 vaccine problems go beyond supply
Even after it vaccinates its own population, the EU may have no option but to toughen up its external borders significantly. Last week, as concerns about EU access to Covid-19 vaccine supply continued to escalate, the European Commission hastily U-turned on an ill-judged decision to impose export controls on vaccines to Northern Ireland. But...
President Rumen Radev to seek second term
President Rumen Radev announced he would be running for a second term of office alongside Vice-President Iliana Iotova. During a one-hour press conference marking four years since his inauguration, the Bulgarian head of state called for reforms in the Election Code, the updating of the electoral registers, live streaming of the election protocols...
Protests should be about freedom for everyone | NV – Ukraine
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Bulgarian school to open in Odessa
At a meeting with Bulgaria’s Consul General Svetoslav Ivanov, Chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Sergei Grinevetsky supported the idea of opening a Bulgarian school in Odessa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported. The question was first raised by Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva during...
Denial was a tactical error | NV – Ukraine
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[Ticker] Putin holds out olive branch to Europe
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told the ‘virtual Davos’ event Wednesday that: “Of course, Western Europe and Russia should be together.” They should “get rid of the phobias of the past”, he added. “We’re ready for it, we want it,” he said, amid potential, new EU sanctions over his jailing of...