
In Russia and Bulgaria alike institutions exempt the Orthodox church from anti-COVID restrictions and use them to prosecute critics. A Russian journalist criticising the Orthodox…

From mid-July to mid-August, Valentina Ivanovna spends her nights in a sleeping bag on a bench in the yard while renting out her one-room apartment…

Minority members of the Romanian Parliament are struggling to promote dialogue with civil society on waste management at a time when the majority in power…

It’s a frosty January afternoon in the seaside resort of Großräschen. Despite the penetrating cold, a group of elderly bon vivants are rising a late…

Repeated road blocks near Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv took on a metaphorical meaning this past December as locals came out en masse in…

Harsh labour conditions, social uncertainty, a polluted environment and oligarchic ownership dominate coal mining in Bulgaria. Despite the promises to overcome climate change and to…