Ruslan Trad

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With focus on Syria, conflicts, mercenaries. Columnist and Author of The Murder of A Revolution.

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Freelancer, journalist, blogger and analyst based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Editor in crowdfunding media KlinKlin.

Former author in Foreign Policy Bulgaria, and Goethe Institut; freelance columnist in Actualno.com, author in Vesti.bg. Member of Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria. Founder of Intidar Blog - the first Bulgarian blog about MENA region and my personal blog. Co-founder of Bulgarian weekly online journal for war zones and conflicts, De Re Militari.

I was correspondent in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan & Thailand for TEMA Weekly and Bulgarian National Radio. In January 2016 I was in Tunisia, making interviews with Libyan refugees and Tunisian activists. In 2017 I visited Saudi Arabia covering Hajj.

My book: The Murder of a Revolution [BG] www.ciela.com/ubiystvoto-na-edna-revolyutsiya.html

Documentary from N. Iraq [BG] www.btv.bg/video/shows/btv-reporterite/videos/btv-reporterite-lica-ot-vojnata.html

My interviews and materials have found a place in Bellingcat, Vocal Europe, Bild, Vocativ, IB Times, Der Standard, Muftah, Internazionale, Al Jazeera, and others.

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Ruslan Trad

17 September 2019 17 Sep

Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian, and Western weapons could be found on black markets in the Middle East, as weapons officially sold from different countries easily fall into the gray sector because of corruption or military offensives with a bad end. But what can we say about the trafficking of weapons to Europe? My article on the alliances between criminal and terrorist networks: eeradicalization.com/the-alliances-of-criminal-and-terrorists-groups-in-europe/

Ruslan Trad

17 August 2019 17 Aug

A comment for Bulgaria Analytica: "The USA is yet to face tough decisions in Syria" bulgariaanalytica.org/en/2019/08/17/the-usa-is-yet-to-face-tough-decisions-in-syria/

Ruslan Trad

12 July 2019 12 Jul

My latest for European Eye on Radicalization: from Syria to the Sahel and Southeast Asia, ISIS is far from the defeated group that diplomats and media have shown for the past months. eeradicalization.com/the-fight-against-isis-is-not-over/

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