Martin Marinos is an associate professor of media and communication at the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. He is the author of Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria.

05.17.2026

• Martin Marinos

No, Bulgaria’s New Premier Isn’t Pro-Kremlin

New Bulgarian Premier Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is more conservative than it sounds. It’s also unfair to call it pro-Kremlin, despite alarmist claims in international media casting the party as stooges of Vladimir Putin.