A Bulgarian translation of the novel "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was recently published. The story is based on his life experience and concerns one of the so-called sharashkas - secret Soviet camps where imprisoned scientists worked on intelligence or military projects. The disappointment of ...

Twenty people walk into a bar. Five Bulgarians, five Americans, five French, and five British. In each group, there is one person born in 1880, 1920, 1950, 1980, and 2000. All identify themselves politically as “right-wing” and “conservative.” None of them have any …

Emotions and feelings inevitably have an impact on the overall socio-political and economic life. It is especially strong in decisive historical moments. This justifies the interest in them. The main questions that will be answered in this text are: when and under what conditions has political life in Bulgaria caused joy, delight …

The four-party government has already been formed and communication about the government’s priorities is in full swing. Not only do we know what has been agreed upon by the coordination groups in the mall[1], but we are also listening attentively to the first moves of the new ministers. What we hear immediately points us to the ongoing process of political realignment, in which …

Acting Finance Minister Valeri Belchev "corrected" himself on Friday and revealed that the deficit in his ministry's planned state budget for 2022 will actually be 5.1% of GDP, not 2.9%, as he initially said a week ago. I recall that at that surprise press conference, the minister did not know what the parameters of the main ...

Author: Stilgar This is the third part of our series "What is Bitcoin?". You can read the previous part, which explains the cryptography behind cryptocurrencies, here. Suppose we want to make electronic cash and we are armed with cryptography. The first, most natural idea is to have a bank and everyone has an account there. With …

In the footsteps of a politically useless past The politically useless past is ugly and does not inspire national pride or enthusiasm among voters. That is why it is left to rest in peace in archives and libraries. When told meaningfully and honestly, it functions as a vaccine against social diseases such as populism, demagogy, corruption, use …

The date is 08.03.2019. The then businessman - Mr. Asen Vassilev, publicly claims that the effective tax on a salary of 3,000 leva in Bulgaria is nearly 50%. In this calculation, Mr. Asen Vassilev also adds the social security contributions due with the clear understanding that this money is being spent on "one big theft, garnished with ...

This weekend, the negotiations for a government between "We Continue the Change", "There Is Such a People", "Democratic Bulgaria" and the "Bulgarian Socialist Party" ended. Or at least the public part of them ended - the one that was broadcast live on the Internet. From what we saw, the negotiations generally went in relative harmony between the positions of the individual parties. Some …

"As long as the right is led by Boyko Borisov, it has no chance to rise" ~ Ivan Kostov A threat of institutional death has loomed over all possible coalition partners of the new leading force in the person of "We Continue the Change". Slavi Trifonov's people are pushed into a corner by their political failures and contradictions. The Socialists must ...