Krum Karadakov

In July 2018, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) announced its plan to return to Bulgaria and Romania “amid growing concern about a reversal in democratic gains and attacks on the

When investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed ten years ago, the news took the whole world by surprise. In the months that followed, the bank became a symbol of corporate greed

By Mihail Veshim Polish aphorist Stanisław Jerzy Lec once wrote, “The window to the world can be shaded with a newspaper.” He was referring to the days of the ideological

A Justin Bieber tune saved a Russian fisherman from being mauled by a bear. Or so claimed a 2014 story that went viral and was even carried by several high-circulation

By Pauline Adès-Mével Since it joined the European Union a decade ago, Bulgaria has tumbled down in the annual press freedom ranking by Reporters Without Borders, slipping from 35th place

By Vesislava Antonova At the end of July this year, Reporters Without Borders published a report titled “Mission Possible: Investigative Journalism in Bulgaria.” The report states that, paradoxical though it

“When we tell people back home that, at our age, we are going to ballet camp in Bulgaria, it brings the conversation to a stop,” James Pardew tells me. He