Tag: #RumenRadev
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The two chairs
Rumen Radev is trying to sit on two chairs at once, and so far he’s managed to annoy the people holding both of them. In Paris, Radev declined Macron’s invitation to the Coalition of the Willing and declared Bulgaria doesn’t belong in a format that keeps arming Ukraine. A day later his foreign minister backed…
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Was I wrong about Radev?
Two months ago, I wrote that the lazy Western take on Rumen Radev, “the next Orban,” missed the point. Bulgaria already has its Orban, and his name is Boyko Borissov. The better question, I argued, was whether Radev could be our Péter Magyar: the popular outsider who finally breaks the corrupt system from the position…