Category: balkans
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Italy To Lead Construction of New NATO Base in Bulgaria
Internet news site, bourgas.ru, situated in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast city of Burgas, and catering to speakers of Russian as their native language, on August 13, 2025, reported that in the near future Bulgaria and Italy would begin construction of a new NATO military base in Bulgaria’s Yambol Province. Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense, in…
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Dutch Court Finds Pro-Russian Separatists Guilty in Downing of MH17, Gives Life Sentences; Free Europe Bulgarian Service, mid-November 2022
What was so compelling about this article was not so much that justice is finally being served, although its proverbial long arm cannot extend so far as to actualize it by plucking the guilty parties out of their haven in Russia, or that a verdict has been forthcoming after so many intervening years; rather, that…
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Foreign Jihadists and Mercenaries Said To Be Fighting Russians in Ukraine, early March 2022
A Greek report posted to The World News platform, based on Syrian News Agency (SANA) and Al Mayadeen satellite media network information, noted on March 9, 2022, that approximately 450 Salafist jihadists had left Idlib, Syria, and entered Ukraine for the purpose of fighting against Russian forces as well as pro-Russian non-combatants there. The jihadists…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Justifies Ukraine Incursion, 24 Feb 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the world on February 24, 2022, in a televised speech, in which he faulted the aggressive behavıor of the West, i.e., the western alliances of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) as the reason for his decision to invade Ukraine. Of course, he was…
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Book Review
Istanbul, City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World In his 360-page narrative history, the author, Thomas F. Madden, encapsulates the progression of events that eventually led to the establishment of the ancient Greek city of Constantinople through to its present representation in the form of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. Madden focuses on…
The Dragon is Slain 