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Sep 15, 2026
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
I don't know.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
And it extends into the whole European part of Turkey is obviously Balkan, as is Bulgaria, Romania... all the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
And I just met somebody here whose mother's family is from a place called Edirne, which is in western Turkey.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
It's a border town when you drive between Istanbul and Sofia, a drive I made many times because I was posted as a U.S. diplomat in Sofia.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
Not everybody in every one of these communities speaks Ladino, but a great many people do.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
And that's also true of the current president of Mexico, Claudia.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
She grew up in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in a Ladino-speaking community.
Tom PriceCORRESPONDENT
And so the last thing you'd expect is that the president of Mexico is a Sephardic Jew from Bulgaria.
Geoff SchultzHOST
They almost got promoted to Liga 3, I think.
Geoff SchultzHOST
Didn't quite make promotion, and he moved to the third position the third league in Bulgaria or something.
Geoff SchultzHOST
And it's like, I don't know how that was a move up, but, but yeah, I mean, they've got, you know, some really, really passionate fans.
Geoff SchultzHOST
Machika is a really, really neat village in Medina.
Derren JosephHOST
And having said that, what is the comfortable minimum tax? 15%, 1.5%.
Derren JosephHOST
Yes, there are jurisdictions that are less than that, you know, Ireland, 12.5%, Bulgaria, 9%, UAE as well.
Derren JosephHOST
But The thinking or the sentiment is that, yes, those may be lower, but they will be trending upwards.
Derren JosephHOST
Because if this global minimum tax framework is rolled out and it seems as if it does have traction, I mean, not everyone is there yet, but it is trending in that direction.
JimmyHOST
The moment Peter passed the initial security checkpoint, his fate became governed by the laws and diplomatic privileges of the United States.
JimmyHOST
This jurisdictional shield fundamentally limits the ability of Bulgarian authorities to conduct a proper search or investigation on premises.
JimmyHOST
In what would become a tragic indictment of the official response, Bulgarian authorities largely abandoned the search soon after the incident.
JimmyHOST
This investigative inertia, particularly concerning a high-profile case linked directly to a crucial geopolitical ally, suggested to some a measure of political deference.
JimmyHOST
According to the usual narrative of this case, as a NATO partner, the Bulgarian state is highly sensitive to diplomatic pressure from Washington.
JimmyHOST
Attempting to aggressively investigate an incident that may have occurred on American soil would pose significant political challenges.
JimmyHOST
Facing this investigative void, Peter's father, Vladimir, was forced to become his own detective, initiating a years-long exhausting campaign for answers.
JimmyHOST
Despite this, he was unable to get any official word out of either Bulgarian police or American embassy staff.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
Good morning to you, Russ and Marco.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
There's been a huge fire at an ammunition storage site run by a private defence company in Bulgaria.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
No one was injured in the blaze in the centre of the country, although it did trigger a series of explosions.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
EMCO company, whose weapons are used by Ukraine against invading Russian forces, said the fire at its site was sabotage.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
The latest incident follows a fire at another EMCO ammunition warehouse in the area recently.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
The storage facility that was burned this time is 170 kilometers east of the capital, Sofia, and it had not been used for months and was inspected just 20 days ago when full compliance with all regulations was confirmed.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
The firm is run by a Bulgarian arms dealer whose prosecutors allege has already been targeted by Russian agents.
Gavin GrayCORRESPONDENT
This includes a poisoning attempt in 2015.
Dan MusclowGUEST
It was Romania, not Romania.
Dan MusclowGUEST
Bulgaria? Bulgaria? No.
Dan MusclowGUEST
Bulgaria
Gregg YetiGUEST
and Romania are stupider than Belgium.
Gregg YetiGUEST
I think they're all on the same stupidity level.
Anthony ScaramucciHOST
Because let me tell you, that would be the disaster of disasters, that he goes into Lithuania and the, and the r- and the r- Americans do absolutely nothing.
Katty KayHOST
We've mentioned this on the podcast over the last few weeks, the number of attacks on European facilities that are helping in, uh, Bulgaria, in Italy, in Spain, the, the attempted attack at Leipzig Airport that was, um, the Germans say has Russian fingerprints all over it.
Katty KayHOST
I mean, they, they are definitely stepping up their attacks on NATO countries, and they are definitely taking this moment while President Trump is tied up in a war of choice in Iran that now risks expanding, as you've just mentioned, because the Houthis are getting involved.
Katty KayHOST
They may have to send ships to the Red Sea as well as the Straits of Hormuz.
Michael GoveHOST
Mm.
Rory StewartGUEST
If you were to hear the Bulgarian Communist Party talk about Bulgaria, they would also describe their country in different words.
Rory StewartGUEST
You know, proletariat equality.
Michael GoveHOST
Mm.
Samuel TrappHOST
And it's been massive for the last two, three weeks.
Samuel TrappHOST
So they're taking out the ability to have things come in from, uh, Bulgaria, things to come in from Romania, from Moldova, from Poland.
Samuel TrappHOST
They're taking it all out.
Samuel TrappHOST
They're, they're attacking border stations.
Melissa PangilinanHOST
On August twenty-four, another incident involved a drone transiting both Moldovan and Romanian airspace, prompting Romanian fighter jets to scramble.
Melissa PangilinanHOST
Further north, NATO aircraft were scrambled on August fourteen after a drone entered Latvian airspace, and w-- in Bulgaria, a drone reportedly entered the country's airspace before exploding near the Romania-Bulgaria border.
Melissa PangilinanHOST
The important point for operators is that these incidents aren't necessarily confined to the immediate conflict zone.
Melissa PangilinanHOST
Drone incursions can trigger military responses, airspace restrictions, and potentially wider operational disruption across Eastern Europe.
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