The Kremlin oligarch and co-owner of the Yota company, Sergei Adoniev, whose Bulgarian passport was recently rescinded, has been investigated by the FBI for cocaine trafficking through the port of…
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The Insider: Russian Millionaire Adoniev Investigated by FBI for Trafficking of 1 Ton of Cocaine
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The social network Twitter made publically available yesterday millions of messages from accounts linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency, as well as Iran-related accounts previously accused of troll activity…
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From Balkanleaks:
Belene NPP Report before Being Altered under Government Pressure
The Balkanleaks platform for anonymous sharing recently received the integral text (in Bulgarian – editor’s note) of an interim version of the report drafted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences…
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Interview with Anastasia Kirilenko
Juergen Roth: Putin Is KGB Product and Works with Criminal Groups When He Needs It
Prominent investigative journalist Juergen Roth died in Germany at the age of 72, after a long illness. From the 1970s until his death, he never stopped publishing books on corruption,…
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Bulgarian UN Hopeful Has Botched Meeting of UNESCO Executive Board in Order to Avoid Discussion on Crimea
The session of the UNESCO Executive Board last Friday was canceled by the organization’s Director General, Bulgarian Irina Bokova, on grounds she had to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres.…
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Eric Seth Rubin, who has been nominated for US Ambassador to Sofia, knows the Russian special services quite well. As Deputy US Ambassador to Moscow, he was preparing the visit…
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A troll site, registered by Emil Drindolov, a former employee of the newspaper Klasa (Class) and a member of the National Council of the pro-Russians, has published another portion of…
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Communist Secret Services Appointed their Illiterate Russophile as Supervisor of Bulgarians Abroad
The government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, which claims to lead pro-European and democratic policies, appointed Boris Vangelov from VMRO as SABA boss. This happened after the mockup competition organized…
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“Thank God that we were able to save Koblyakov,” said one of his Bulgarian friends on Facebook after the news of the brutal murder of Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin…