Bulgaria after the elections, Atlanticist but sovereign—the Western/Russian perspective

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - Report 23 Apr 2026 by Alex Teddy, Alexei Panin and Javier Espadas

After the landslide victory of Hungary's opposition in a historic election earlier this month, the question many analysts were asking in Brussels was: Who will be Russia's next Orban in the EU?" Just one week later, on April 19, former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev (2017-26) led Progressive Bulgaria to a parliamentary majority that appears to have put an end to a long political crisis that has seen eight elections in five years. Now the questions are: Is he "Russia's next Orban" as some observers have claimed? Does his defense of sovereignty entail opposition to supranational bodies? Does the EU have more leverage on Bulgaria than it did on Hungary?

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