Suspect Admits to Assassination of Slovak Journalist Jan Kuciak at Trial Start
Murky Slovak businessman Marian Kocner is accused of ordering the murder to prevent the journalist from exposing further his activities.
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Ivan Dikov is a Bulgarian journalist and author. He studied political science / international relations and history at Dartmouth College and later in Sofia, in the Eastern Balkans. He’s served for five years as the editor-in-chief of Bulgaria’s largest English-language media – Novinite.com. As a freelancer, he has collaborated with media from the US, the UK, Germany, and Australia.
Malta Gets New Prime Minister as Muscat Quits over Journalist Daphne Galizia’s Murder
Malta's Prime Minister of six years has stepped down in the wake of criticism he had been hampering the investigation
Nord Stream 2 to Start Pumping Gas by 2021, Putin, Merkel Confirm in Moscow
US sanctions have delayed the project's completion by a few months, the leaders of Russia and Germany have said.
Russia, Turkey Launch TurkStream Gas Pipeline with Bulgaria, Serbia
TurkStream seems like a downsized version of the South Stream gas pipeline project canceled by Moscow in 2014 against the
Leftist Ex-Prime Minister Milanovic Wins Croatia’s Presidential Election in Close Race
The new President-elect ruled Croatia as Prime Minister back in 2013 when the Balkan country became a member of the
2020: The Year of Brexit (R.I.P. EU Britain (1973 – 2020)), and Who Is How Old in EU Years
The fact that the 3.5-year-long "life support" of "EU Britain" is finally about to be "unplugged" already at the start
Croatia Takes Over Rotating EU Presidency for the First Time
Not unlike Bulgaria and Romania before it, Croatia will seek to promote the further enlargement of the EU in the
2019: The Year the Far Right Sustainably Surged in Europe and Why It Will Keep Growing
In 2019, Europe was once again spared from an overt rise of stereotypical "brownshirts". Yet, diverse as it is, the
EU’s Ukraine War Conundrum in 2020 and Franco-Germany’s Failure in Relations with Russia
The current attempts to resolve the Ukraine - Russia conflict based on transactional arrangements seem doomed precisely because of their
Intermediary in Journalist Jan Kuciak’s Murder Jailed for 15 Years in Slovakia
The go-between is the only one out of a total of five defendants in the high-profile gangland killing who has
Ukraine, Russia-Backed Separatists Swap 200 Prisoners in Wake of Normandy Four Summit in Paris
The prisoner swap with the self-proclaimed republics in Donbass follows a swap between Ukraine and Russia itself back in September.