Bulgaria Marks Six Months of Continued Protests
December 14, 2013, marked six months of anti-government protests in Bulgaria, where protesters still gather daily in Sofia and other cities, demanding the resignation of the current government, led by...
View Article“Beyond Brazil”: European Journalists Wanted for Reporting Trips
Coolpolitics in Portugal announces [pt] an open call for European journalists who want to go on a reporting trip to Brazil in 2014. Twenty-one young reporters from Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium,...
View ArticleHockey, Diving for Crosses and Other Christmas-in-January Traditions
For Christians of the Western hemisphere, Christmas comes a little earlier than for their counterparts in Eastern Europe, North Africa and other countries. According to the Gregorian calendar, one of...
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European Citizens Call for the Protection of Media Pluralism
Website: MediaInitiative.eu. For updates follow @MediaECI on Twitter and ‘like’ the Facebook page European Initiative for Media Pluralism. “European institutions should safeguard the right to free,...
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Prisoners Lists Stir Informbiro Memories in Former Yugoslav Republics
The recent publishing of lists of prisoners of Goli Otok, victims of communist purges in Yugoslavia from 1949 to 1956, has reignited dormant debates and opened some old wounds, across all the former...
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A Visitor Describes How it Feels to be Mugged by Bulgarian Police
Central Bus Station in Sofia. Photo by Nikola Gruev, used under Creative Commons-BY license. Political scientist and blogger Anastas Vangeli described his experience of extortion by Bulgarian policemen...
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The Journalistic Purgatory of Eastern Europe
‘The rose and the newspaper’ by Borislav Dimitrov on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) We were told the end of totalitarian regimes would lead to a free press, but Central and Eastern European media is less...
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Two People Are Driving Around Europe to Find What It Means to Be European
[All links lead to French-language pages unless otherwise noted.] Twenty European countries. Thirty-two cities. One 1970s VW Bulli. That's Claire Audhuy and Baptiste Cogitore's plan for the next six...
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Australian Activist Jock Palfreeman Is Taking On Bulgaria's Prison System...
Image calling for solidarity with Jock Palfreeman that has circulated on Twitter. Twitter users in several countries are campaigning for “a day of solidarity” with Australian prison activist Jock...
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Russian-French Opposition Activist Koblyakov Arrested in Bulgaria
Nikolai Koblyakov, Russian entrepreneur and opposition activist in Paris, is detained in Bulgaria on an extradition request from Russia Nikolay Koblyakov, founder of the French NGO “Free Russia”...
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Bulgaria's Mizia Is a City Under Water After Heavy Flooding
Collecting food and water to send as aid to flood victims. (Facebook.) Bulgaria avoided the worst of the damage wrought by catastrophic floods in May 2014, when Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and other...
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Serbia Arrests 11 Foreign Human Rights Activists Ahead of Protest
A similar group of activists staged a protest near Downing Street in London on 17 June 2014 to condemn the persecution of Falun Gong activists in China. Photo by Reporter#19616. Copyright Demotix...
View ArticleBulgaria's First Crowdfunding Journalism Project
Bulgaria, a member of the European Union, has a big problem with freedom of the media. The Balkan country is ranked 106 out of 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without...
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Old Postcards Reveal Forgotten World War I Memories in Macedonia
German World War I Postcard with a view of Ohrid, Macedonia. Photo from The New York Public Library Digital Collections. In January 2016, the New York Public Library released more than 180,000...
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Grandma March Day, the Balkan Tradition of Exchanging Handmade Amulets
Tree decorated with amulets. Photo by Flickr user Niv Singer. (CC BY-SA). In certain parts of the Balkans, there is a custom associated with the first day of March called Grandma March Day. On this...
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