Vladimir Putin: Bulgaria Is Russia’s Privileged and Reliable Partner
Good relations with Washington and Moscow increase the strategic value of Sofia

Lubomir Mikhailov

Over a seven-months time Bulgaria has recorded two symptomatically important achievements in the area of foreign policy since joining the EU in early 2007. The visit of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to Sofia in early January 2008 and the visit of the US President George W. Bush in June 2007 were indicative of the fact that Sofia could well maintain good relations both with Washington and Sofia.

The Bulgarian Interest in the Russian Geostrategic Trajectory

Senior Research Associate, Antoniy Galabov, PhD, Sociologist

The choice of Bulgaria as the country where the last official visit abroad of outgoing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was paid, has a symbolic and strategic significance. Symbolic, not only because of the celebrations of the 130th anniversary of the Liberation. The coming back of Russia to Bulgaria, now a member of NATO and the EU, is a political gesture to expand the scope and instruments of partnership, to which Russia aspires on a global scale.