I’m Nikola and I spend most of my days reading the news so I have a professional excuse to do what I’d be doing anyway. Conflict, politics, history, the forces that move countries and the people caught in between. Bulgaria and the Balkans are home base, but the interest runs wider: Ukraine, the Middle East, and wherever the story leads.
This site, the blog and the newsletter that go with it exist because these topics matter and because I wanted to share them properly. Not headlines stripped of context, but the why behind the what. Some weeks, that means a clear summary of what happened. Other weeks, it’s a piece of history worth revisiting, or an opinion I’ll stand behind.
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