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Dr. Philip Dandolov

Counter-Protests: A Gamble for Beleaguered Governments

Opinion - August 17, 2020

A protest at the end of July in Minsk, cc Homoatrox, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rally_in_support_of_Tsikhanouskaya_in_Minsk_(30_July_2020)_-_58.jpg

Counter-protests have been a risky proposition for beleaguered governments through the 2010s. Will Belarus be any different?

Coronavirus in Bulgaria: Conspiracies Theories and Mass Indifference

Opinion - June 22, 2020

Protests in Sofia in 2013. Thus far, for all the public suspicion of the national COVID-19 response, there has been little in the way of collective action. cc Georgi C, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

The Bulgarian public’s suspicion of elite power is on full display during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 in Bulgaria: Nationalism, Identity and the Middle-Ground Approach

Opinion - May 18, 2020

cc Flickr NIH Image Gallery, modified, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

What can Bulgarian nationalism teach us about the country’s COVID-19 strategy?

Politics, Football, and a Change of Geopolitical Course of Bulgaria

Opinion - March 4, 2020

Levski Sofia football fans, cc Wikicommons Javor Draganov, modified, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Levski_sofia_fans.jpg

The fate of the Borisov government will have consequences for Bulgaria’s geopolitical alignment.

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