RiskMonitor in the Media

On May 12 RiskMonitor presented the results from the first monitoring of the State Agency for National Security (SANS). The press stresses the report's central propositions, namely, that the functions of SANS remain unclear and there is no control over its activities. The institution has also been criticized about the absence of a publicly accessible internet site and that the annual report ...
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The media evaluate as a crucial problem that in Bulgaria the earnings obtained from human trafficking are turned into legal revenues. RiskMonitor’s Conference, held on Tuesday, in which experts discussed different aspects of the issue, received a wide media coverage appearing on the first page of most daily papers. The strongest media reaction was to some of the data presented by Georgi...
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The state seems helpless vis-à-vis organized crime. This conclusion was drawn up from analyses presented by jurists, sociologists, historians and journalists this weekend at RiskMonitor’s annual conference held in Borovets. The media reacts differently to reports from the conference. The Trud daily newspaper emphasizes the information from the Commission for Establishing of Pro...
Read moreThe New York Times describes the atmosphere of hopelessness in Bulgaria but also notes that there is a reaction against it. A month after the smashing article about contract killings and ubiquitous corruption the newspaper refers to "quiet corners of this country of seven million people where voices rise" against crime. According to the author Doreen Carvajal these voices are concentrated a...
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