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The macabre images and shocking accounts of maltreatment at privately run eldercare facilities have transfixed Romanians since a bombshell exposé that led to dozens of raids, arrests, and charges earlier this month. But the political fallout has been a long time coming.
President Radev and government officials relied on clientelism, but a loophole suggesting the massive flagpole is "relocatable" and questions about a main sponsor have left it on shaky ground.
Bulgaria's top broadcasting and new-media regulator, who was appointed by the country's pro-Russian president, conflated UN-backed evidence of atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine with anti-Russian "propaganda," setting off a firestorm.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili dropped a bombshell when he suggested that Georgia will shut down a lucrative trade in helping foreigners have children because of e-mail-order babies and abuses by same-sex couples.
The word "Jude" alongside a Star of David was daubed on a shop window in the Bulgarian capital after a tense standoff with supporters from the far-right, nationalist Revival party, whose pugilistic leader and heavy-handed stunts have propelled it to nearly 14 percent support nationally.