Author: Stilgar Naibsky Are you asking about the barracks? Yes, I've been to the barracks. Is it where you become a man? Of course, I don't know of a better place for a man to become a man. Do you want me to tell you? Well, since you ask me so kindly... You learn useful things in the barracks. You learn to shoot a Kalashnikov assault rifle...
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Prerequisite for protest
Unhindered passage on Sofia's roads is important. However, isn't expedited passage through Terminal 1 more important? We have a situation... People are protesting against the government, which is preventing other people from using certain common areas - specifically roads. The complaints were not long in coming - amplified by the politicians' megaphones: You are preventing...
More »The passive gerbera
The passive Gerber does not define himself as a supporter of any party. The passive Gerber has nothing against GERB not being in power, as long as no other party comes to power. The passive Gerber does not want GERB to fall from power because the communists will come. The passive Gerber believes that …
More »A covid story or why taxes are theft
Author: Stanislav Kalachev On August 3, 2020, the government decided to raise civil servant salaries by 30%. The decision comes into effect at the end of the same month. This move by the government coincided with the expiration of the first ten days of my quarantine. If you are wondering what the general …
More »People of culture, state money makes you unfree
Where are the people of culture? Why aren't directors of museums, galleries and theaters protesting too? The obvious and logical question with a clear – but ungiven – answer has been circulating on social networks in recent days. Here we will give this answer. There are people of culture who support the government. This should not be …
More »The end of a bittersweet honeymoon
I recently spoke with a friend. Like every other conversation over the past few weeks, this one came down to discussing the protests. Even though I knew that with her profession and workplace (which is why I can't mention her by name), I asked her for her opinion on the topic. The answer …
More »The new social measures: Pointless and hindering recovery
Today, Prime Minister Borissov announced a new package of economic measures to combat the crisis worth 2 billion leva, with a strong emphasis on higher healthcare spending and social spending for pensioners and the unemployed. Although these social measures are not particularly large-scale in themselves, they signal a very wrong approach …
More »GERB will leave as BSP because it has become BSP
Daniela Daritkova has probably had more pleasant Friday nights than last night. The chairwoman of the GERB parliamentary group was locked up for hours at BNT after her appearance on Panorama. In her appearance, she called for dialogue with the protesters, but a little later it turned out that there was a considerable gap between words and actions.
More »Are we capable of qualitatively absorbing the new EU funding?
After hundreds of sips of coffee with "sugar", Prime Minister Borisov triumphantly returned to Sofia a few days ago and declared. The Prime Minister did not hesitate to boast that the negotiations on the European Recovery Fund and the next EU Budget ended with a definite success for Bulgaria and almost personally he ...
More »Where and how did we get here?
Author: Dimitar Pehlivanov Three main directions can be outlined that caused the current social crisis, which is about to become political. Despite the fact that in the general perception things seem to merge under concepts such as "governance" and "mafia", the events of recent weeks and months allow us to outline ...
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