Young people, media and civic culture: Bulgaria and Romania meet the Gen Z and young millennials
By Vladimir Mitev To be young is not a quality. A “young person” could mean many things. Yet popular culture,...
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Protest with dozens of Greenpeace activists on the beach in Vama Veche against Black Sea drilling
Vama Veche, September 22, 2025 – On September 21, 2025, over 50 activists from Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia...
Ivo Indzhov: Ukraine’s fate and its absence from Trump’s games with Putin, marginally present in the Bulgarian mainstream media
Yuliana Metodieva, Marginalia, 14.08.2025 In Bulgarian media, the upcoming meeting in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russian President...
Migrant rights activist: “It is not the presence of a Saudi dissident in Bulgaria, but the infiltration of Saudi influence in the Bulgarian security services that poses a threat to the country”
Statement by an activist from the Solidarity with Migrants - Bulgaria movement This speech was made during a protest in...
The home of the homeless: Easter in Sugar Factory district in Sofia
Ivan Radev, Facebook, 20 April 2025 Context of the story: On 15 April 2025, the demolition of illegal houses and...
Bulgaria: Saudi activist at risk of deportation
Frontline Defenders, 10 March 2025 Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia, and should allow...
Just Transition: Mission Impossible? Chapter One: Stories from Romania and Bulgaria
December 2022, announcement on the European Commission's website: Romania will receive €2.14 billion from Just Transition Fund to diversify the...
Vladimir Mitev: Bulgaria is part of both Western policy towards Ukraine and Western policy towards Russia
Mihai Isac, Karadeniz Press, 26 March 2025 The Bridge of Friendship, 26 March 2025 Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian Romanian-speaking journalist...
Georgi Gospodinov: Workers in Maritsa-East mines don’t trust politicians because they have been lying to us for a long time
Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbachevska-Figat Georgi Gospodinov is the chairman of the KNSB trade union at Maritsa-East mines. In this capacity,...
Stefan Krastev: The Pernik municipality considers vital the implication of citizens in just transition process
The deputy mayor of Pernik explains how the municipality sees the just transition and what it does for the post-coal...
