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Nuclear Fallout: Is Panic Ever a Good Policy?

As the worlds watches mesmerized the developments around Japan's Fukushima NPP, whose cooling failed as a result of a massive earthquake and tsunami, everybody - media included - need to think before they react.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 15, 2011, Tuesday // 16:56 | Viewed: 2591

The Incommensurable Tragedies of Fukushima and Chernobyl

In an ironic twist of fate, Japan, the victim of the only wartime nuclear bombing, has been struck with another nuclear disaster.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 14, 2011, Monday // 10:11 | Viewed: 2797

Bulgaria's Facebook Revolution: Down with the Cartels!

For the first time on Sunday Bulgaria saw a truly massive protest demonstration organized on Facebook.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 13, 2011, Sunday // 12:32 | Viewed: 2903

No to EU-Wide Common Tax Rate

The tax drama has returned to Europe after a decade of escalating tensions and for what does not appear like a final round of resolution.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 11, 2011, Friday // 18:19 | Viewed: 3798

Bulgaria to Stage Concerts during Earth Hour? Not Very Eco Friendly

At least 10 Bulgarian cities will turn off the lights for one hour to join the Earth Hour initiative, which will be held on March 26 at 8:30 pm.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 10, 2011, Thursday // 10:33 | Viewed: 3195

Dog Spinning - We Have Seen Worse, But Why Keep It?

The mayor of the Bulgarian Tsarevo Municipality defended the controversial "dog spinning" ritual, claiming it is not so dangerous for the dogs.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 9, 2011, Wednesday // 19:07 | Viewed: 2847

Amending and Avoiding the Law Bulgarian Style

Recently, the "Access to Information" NGO alarmed that Bulgaria's ruling GERB party is planning to restrict public access to the business registery.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 8, 2011, Tuesday // 10:47 | Viewed: 1985

Bulgaria's Mafia War: Resolve versus Results

Last week the US Department of State released its 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report whose assessment on the efforts of the Bulgarian cabinet and mainly the Interior Ministry to combat the international drug trade can be subject to oppos

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 7, 2011, Monday // 19:09 | Viewed: 5719

Sexual or Sexist?

No doubt about it - (beautiful and intelligent) women have always been Bulgaria's best ambassadors abroad.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 7, 2011, Monday // 14:48 | Viewed: 2677

Stoichkov Consul in Barcelona?! Gimme a Break!

As the star of FC Barcelona and the Bulgarian national football team in the early 1990s, Hristo Stoichkov has done more to promote Bulgaria than any other person alive.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 6, 2011, Sunday // 04:31 | Viewed: 2613

What Liberty in Bulgaria, 2011?

March 3 - Bulgaria's national holiday - marks the peace treaty ending the 1877-8 Russo-Turkish war and mandating the creation of an autonomous Bulgarian state.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 3, 2011, Thursday // 18:45 | Viewed: 2862

A Moment of Truth for Bulgaria, Libya, the World

Eleven years after their arrest and the horrors of Libya's jails, six Bulgarian medics, who were sentenced to death in the Jamahiriya, have been morally vindicated - Libya admitted that Muammar Gaddafi is behind the HIV outbreak in Benghazi.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 1, 2011, Tuesday // 15:35 | Viewed: 3709

Bulgaria's Globalized Martenitsas

I have the honor of presenting to you our new column for short comment of 150 words: "Sofia Speaking"!

Novinite Insider » Editorial | March 1, 2011, Tuesday // 08:11 | Viewed: 2674

Oops, They Did It Again! Or the Symbiosis of Serbian Chauvinism and Bulgarian Nihilism

Dear Serbia, Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, known to the Ottoman Turkish authorities and world history as Vasil Levski (i.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 23, 2011, Wednesday // 23:14 | Viewed: 10380

Bulgaria's Painful Lesson in Libya

When the wind of change started blowing in Libya, the dictator Qaddafi responded with lethal force.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 22, 2011, Tuesday // 21:29 | Viewed: 3486

Bulgaria: Octopus Rising. Is Aleksei Petrov the New Borisov?

Just one year after his spectacular arrest in February 2010, the enigmatic person of businessman and former security officer Aleskei Petrov is making headlong strides right into the center of Bulgarian political life.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 22, 2011, Tuesday // 16:37 | Viewed: 3580

Welcome to the Jungle: The Bulgarian Hinterland, 2020

One piece of news that, strangely enough, caught very little attentio in Bulgaria – or, better – in Sofia – was the weekend plunder of a bankrupt dairy by scores of unemployed Roma in the central Bulgarian town of Kazanlak.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 16, 2011, Wednesday // 23:37 | Viewed: 4798

THE Untouchable

That could have been Bulgaria's first and most earnest reckoning with its corrupt past.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 15, 2011, Tuesday // 14:47 | Viewed: 3293

Can't Buy Me Love... But What about Happiness?

It was recently announced that Brazil, which is thought to be one of the most cheerful countries in the world thanks to its carnival and beaches and samba spirit, is considering inserting the phrase "pursuit of happiness" into Article 6 of its constitutio

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 12, 2011, Saturday // 14:08 | Viewed: 3907

Bulgarian-Greek Border Blockade - a Borderline EU Problem

It seems that each year around the same time, Greek farmers not having much to do during the winter, decide to block their country's northern border while Bulgaria, Greece and the EU watch helplessly  waiting for the demonstrators to get tired and go home

Novinite Insider » Editorial | February 10, 2011, Thursday // 15:57 | Viewed: 3637

Bulgaria Government - Best of a Bad Bargain

I have never been a fan of Boyko Borisov.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | January 31, 2011, Monday // 16:10 | Viewed: 4498
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