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Bulgarian socialists accused of cobbling fake coalition

Two political parties expressed surprise and anger on Wednesday (6 December) when they learned they had been included in a coalition led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) without their knowledge. To increase its political influence in the EU’s poorest country, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), which is part of …

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Ukraine’s Political Intrigue Deepens As The SBU Alleges A Poroshenko-Orban-Russian Plot

After having crossed the Rubicon of implying that the same man who waged the first Donbass War is either a Russian agent or at least that country’s useful idiot, it’s anyone’s guess what happens next, but the past month’s precedent suggests that more drama is likely. Reuters reported over the …

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Putin’s Weak Link to Crimea

Kyiv Should Target the Kerch Bridge—but Needs Missiles to Take It Out When Russia annexed Crimea in February 2014, the peninsula became crucial to Moscow’s strategy to dominate Ukraine and the Black Sea region. Critical to that domination is the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait, the narrow strip of water …

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