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“Launched immediately following the call between Washington and Moscow, this was one of the most severe assaults of the entire war, a clear demonstration of how Moscow interprets diplomacy, intended purely as a message.”

Vice-president of Transneft Andrey Badalov died after falling out of a window. Per one estimate there are over 50 Russian state corporations and state officials that died in a mysteries way since 2022

Sarakatsana (Karakachan) girl spotted at Bulgaria's Consulate in London. Credits: unknown

NBC News: "Suspending the shipment of military aid to Ukraine was a unilateral step by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to three congressional aides and a former U.S. official familiar with the matter."

Novorossiysk is currently the base of Russia's Black Sea fleet after it was driven away from Sevastopol. The city hosts a key oi export terminal too. Further: my Carnegie Europe blogpost carnegieendowment.org/europe/strateg…

I love all references to ancient times but... Valerian I (Netanyahu here) was captured in battle by Shapur I. Then made swallow molten gold, skinned, stuffed and preserved as a trophy. This all happened while Rome was amidst a very long crisis and Sasanians were on the rise

Salonica. A reader and Georgi Gospodinov 's Time Shelter. Photo: Vladimir Siriiski

Andriy Yermak might be increasingly sidelined in America. But at home Ukraine’s eminence rouge is as powerful as ever. My new piece. economist.com/europe/2025/07…

How long before we get to the Battle of Chaeronea?

In America young people, city-dwellers and holders of doctorates are among the most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss, writes Stefanie Stantcheva. In a guest essay the Harvard professor explains why economist.com/by-invitation/…

The European Parliament and ECOFIN just approved Bulgaria's eurozone accession. As of 1 January, Bulgaria will be swapping the lev for the euro.

A term making the rounds in Bulgaria: Erdoganisation. After the opposition mayor of Varna was arrested on spurious allegations.

Russian forces guided an FPV drone and killed a 14 month old baby inside his home with his great grandmother in Kherson today. I won’t post the picture. Russian drone units terrorizing this region’s civilians are twisted and sick.

Marx said if history occurs twice, then first as a tragedy, then as a farce. Here, in 1995, Aleksandar Vucic calls Slobodan Milosevic the "servant of Western powers in Belgrade." Today, the Serbian opposition calls Vucic the same. Tragedy? Farce? Both? youtube.com/watch?v=K58UsD…

11. Jula u Beogradu osvanuo kamen spomenik zrtvama genocida u Srebrenici. Naspram platna sa porukom Ljudi pamte ljude.

Srebrenica. 30 years ago.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité - et sanité

The 1935 Romanian foxtrot "On the Telephone" sung by Jean Moscopol with video of the construction of the Palace of the Telephones from 1931 to 1933.