Dimitar Bechev
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Dimitar Bechev
@DimitarBechev
Director, Dahrendorf Programme @stantscollege Senior Fellow @Carnegie_Europe New: "The Scramble for Europe" out from Oxford UP. https://t.co/Gp9d1Qq4pj
Oxford, England Katılım Mart 2009
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Essay I wrote for the Ideas Letter, a magazine published by @OpenSociety. Rather than a coherent ideological project illiberalism is a broad church bringing together old-school authoritarians & populist insurgents. Its bit at hegemonic order is bound to fail.
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Where better to wake up on your birthday 🎂 than in India's greatest and most historic hotel @TajMahalMumbai ? Thank you Ritesh Sharma for your hospitality & brilliant stewardship of this fabulous institution.
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Europe emboldened to interdict Russian oil tankers
Emmanuel Macron@EmmanuelMacron
We remain resolute. This morning in the Mediterranean, the French Navy intercepted and boarded another vessel from the shadow fleet, the Deyna. The war involving Iran will not deflect France from its support for Ukraine, where Russia’s war of aggression continues unabated. These vessels, which evade international sanctions and violate the law of the sea, are profiteers of war. They line their pockets while helping finance Russia’s war effort. We will not allow it.
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"Big biznis" to quote Squatting Slavs in Tracksuits.
max seddon@maxseddon
Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko says Trump has invited him to Mar-a-Lago to discuss a "big deal" with the US. This would presumably bring his country in from the cold after years of sanctions over his repressions and help for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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"essence of liberalism is the
contestation of an ancien régime"
"authoritarianism boils down to rule by an unaccountable elite"
Dimitar Bechev@DimitarBechev
Essay I wrote for the Ideas Letter, a magazine published by @OpenSociety. Rather than a coherent ideological project illiberalism is a broad church bringing together old-school authoritarians & populist insurgents. Its bit at hegemonic order is bound to fail.
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📅 | The Western Balkan countries are becoming key partners in boosting the EU's economic competitiveness.
@DimitarBechev, @mj_prinz, @MilanN_inBerlin, Elvin Guri, & Ana Krstinovska will discuss the future of the EU-Western Balkans partnership.
Register: carnegieendowment.org/europe/events/…
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Russian oil giant LUKOIL reported a staggering 1,06 trillion ruble loss for 2025 vs a net profit of 851,5 billion rubles in 2024. Revenue dropped by 15% to 3,8 trillion rubles.
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I've reviewed A. Wess Mitchell's formidable book for @firstthingsmag, out in April. He calls for a rediscovery of diplomacy's core, not superficially as "comms" or as handmaiden to military force, but as art of arranging power in space & time, to concentrate it & limit threats.
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SEPA is strictly speaking a pan-European payment system which includes also UK, EEA members, Andorra, the Vatican and San Marino. Montenegro, Albania, Serbia and N. Macedonia are partly in too. Turkey's membership will help business and remittances, though few will notice.
Soner Cagaptay@SonerCagaptay
The most important piece of Turkey’s global identity vis-a-via Europe is its deep economic integration with the EU EU pitched for Turkey to join its payments system, envoy says reuters.com/business/finan…
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Reconstructing the likes of sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Desislava from the Boyana church (XIII century). They ruled over Sofia and the region during the late 1250s. kaloyan was cousin to Bulgarian tzar Konstantin Tikh Asen and grandson of Serbian king Stephen II Nemanic
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@nxd1979 The main source of Paisius of Hilendar (Paisiy Hilendarski)'s Slav-Bulgarian History (Istoriya Slavenobolgarskaya). Paisiy is now on an euro coin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisius_o…
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@GeorgiGotev The Southern Gas Corridor cannot match the volumes by a long stretch.
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Hormuz closure puts Turkey at the centre of Europe’s energy supply eualive.net/hormuz-closure… The Southern gas corridor has emerged as the only major overland route delivering non-Russian, non-Gulf gas into the EU
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"Balkans to Bengal" - a great phrase! @DalrympleWill
Imran Mulla@Imran_posts
Amid renewed interest in historical ties between Iran and South Asia, I've written about the lost world of what Shahab Ahmed called the "Balkans-to-Bengal complex". Its rich cultural legacy has largely been forgotten: middleeasteye.net/discover/balka…
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Nowadays, in the EU's ambitions, stability trumps loftier objectives such as the spread of democracy & rule of law.
Yet the logic is the same: The union is in the business of co-opting frontier countries by offering them membership, says @DimitarBechev.
carnegieendowment.org/europe/strateg…
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@DimitarBechev Most interesting are the common words and other language constructs between Albanian and Romanian.
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Albanian is an isolate but it contains an old layer of Latin vocab. My favourite example: mbret (king) which is actually derived from imperator.
Langfocus Paul 🪬@langfocus
Albanian's place in the Indo-European language family. Why is it all by itself? It's a language isolate within the IE family, meaning that it forms its own branch of Indo-European, with no other languages.
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