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In 2022, to diversify its supplies after the war in Ukraine, the EU turned to Azerbaijani gas, which rose from 2% to 3% of European gas imports. The contract earned Baku €15.6 billion last year.
Amidst increasing tensions with Russia and its actions in the Black Sea, Bulgaria is rapidly moving forward with modernizing its armed forces and investing in Western arms deals.
Bulgaria has long postponed modernizing its armed forces, which still rely on Soviet-era weapons. But Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has served as a wake-up call.
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.
A court in Astana late on June 20 sentenced former Kazakh Culture Minister Arystanbek Mukhamediuly to eight years in prison on embezzlement charges.