US EditionWhy Bulgaria’s New Leader May Not Become Putin’s New Trojan Horse
Radev’s bloc won 135 of 240 seats, while analysts said Bulgaria’s EU and NATO ties are unlikely to shift sharply toward Moscow.
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Will Bulgaria become the next Hungary, preventing the bloc's efforts to re-arm itself and help Ukraine win the war against Russia? This is not an unconceived assumption, given the nature of the new parliamentary majority in...
After years of instability, with eight elections in five years, Bulgaria has taken a political turn: the Eurosceptic and pro-Russian Rumen Radev has achieved a historic victory last Sunday with his Bulgaria Progressive coalition. He who was president between 2017 and January 2026 promises stability, fight against corruption and a more “pragmatic” approach to Russia. However, his rejection of the sending of arms to Ukraine and the sanctions again…
Election of so-called 'Putin agent' is no surprise to ordinary Bulgarians
On April 19, parliamentary elections took place in Bulgaria for the eighth time in five years. It was the latest iteration of a pattern that has crept inwards from the European Union’s eastern periphery, from Georgia in 2024 to Romania in 2025, to Slovenia and Hungary this year: foreign governments pick a favorite that suits their geopolitical objectives and/or culture war preferences. They then try to put the finger on the scale of the politica…
The Victory was won by Progressive Bulgaria.
I don't see any similarity in the biographies of Viktor Orbán and Rumen Radev, but Putin would probably not mind a new "Trojan horse" in the EU and NATO, says the well-known Bulgarian writer Zachary Karabashliev.
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