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2025

Europe Somehow Still Depends on Russia’s Energy

Foreign Policy, Jan 2025

Era of cheap Russian gas for EU ends as transit across Ukraine stops

BBC World Service, Jan 2025
2024

Wie Putins Freunde Deutschland unterwandern

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dec 2024

How the West’s Russian energy sanctions are failing and what can be done about it?

EURACTIV, Nov 2024

Bulgaria key to stopping Russian gas to Europe, expert says

EURACTIV, Oct 2024

Czech industry profiting from Russian oil sanctions loophole, research reveals

POLITICO, Oct 2024

West funding Putin’s soldiers with growing Russian fuel purchases, report warns

POLITICO, Sep 2024

Hungary urges Ukraine to OK Russian oil loophole

POLITICO, Aug 2024

Bulgarije wil af van Russisch oliebedrijf. ‘Invloed? Dat is praat van westerlingen’

de Volkskrant, Aug 2024

Russische Ölimporte: Warum Orbáns Heuchelei-Vorwurf gegen Polen die ganze EU trifft

Telepolis, Jul 2024

You’ve had two years: EU eyerolls at Hungary’s request for help with Russian oil

POLITICO, Jul 2024

The EU should call Orbán’s oil bluff

EURACTIV, Jul 2024

US Ambassador to Bulgaria Merten Says Russian President Putin Has No Desire to Negotiate, Wants to Continue Aggression in Ukraine

BTA, Jun 2024

Defence Minister Says Bulgaria Will Be Target of Hybrid Subversions by Russia, China in Coming Years

BTA, Jun 2024

Public Confidence in Army Seven Times Higher Than in National Government

BTA, Jun 2024

Most Bulgarians Have Undecided or Positive Attitude Towards Russia

BTA, Jun 2024

EU-Sanktionen ausgehebelt So trickst Erdogan Putins Öl zu uns

Bild, May 2024

Россия заработала 3 млрд евро на тайных поставках нефтепродуктов Европу через Турцию

The Moscow Times, May 2024

How Turkey became Putin’s ‘pit stop’ for selling camouflaged fuel to the EU

POLITICO, May 2024

Ist Bulgarien reif für den Euro?

WirtschaftsWoche, May 2024

Bulgarian Distrust of Russia Simmers Over a Black Sea Oil Terminal

New York Times, May 2024

Corruption and Russian meddling go hand in hand, says Bulgarian PM

Financial Times, Apr 2024
2023

Bulgaria votes to scrap sanctions opt-out that raked in €1B for Putin

POLITICO, Dec 2023

Bulgarian millions, fake paperwork and the ‘cockroach strategy’: How Europe failed to sap Russia’s energy profits

POLITICO, Dec 2023

Lukoil Bulgaria claims it can legally export fuels to the EU

EURACTIV, Nov 2023

Bulgaria’s Russian gas games rile Europe

POLITICO, Nov 2023

Russian oil on EU soil: Bulgarian refinery skirts sanctions and buys Russian crude worth an estimated EUR 1.1 billion in tax to the Kremlin

Nov 2023

Investigation reveals the EU’s ‘Russian oil loophole’ contributing an estimated €1.1 billion in taxes to Kremlin

Global Witness, Nov 2023

Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole

POLITICO, Nov 2023

Bulgarian parliament threatens to take over control of local Lukoil

EURACTIV, Oct 2023

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