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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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 »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 ...
More »"Translation" of Prime Minister Borisov's briefing from yesterday
Author: Georgi Georgiev I will allow myself to make a "translated on air" of Borisov's "thoughts out loud" from yesterday. 1. He loves the state, he does not want it to collapse out of stupidity. Let it be understood: those in the square do not love the state and aim for destruction. This ...
More »The hypertrophied recession and the response of governments
Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, original publication from 14.04.2020 The global coronavirus epidemic has significantly accelerated the crisis trends of the modern world. The monetary and fiscal policy measures proposed by international organizations (IMF, World Bank, OECD, UN) and G7 governments after emerging from the global recession of 2008-2009 had a short-term positive effect …
More »What is happening in the world in the conditions of the first Great Depression of the 21st century?
Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, original publication from 14.04.2020 The world economy is once again threatened by an unprecedented global recession, unemployment of 1.3 billion people in the world, a debt crisis, budget holes, defaults and other scourges of the multi-layered systemic crisis. “A crisis like no other” – said IMF President Kristalina Georgieva …
More »I will forever remain a leftist.
Author: Yoan Zapryanov The bottom, as every Levski supporter knows, is an abstract concept. I used to think, for example, that our elimination from Bate Borisov was the bottom. Or the one from Spartak Tarnava in one half. Or when we lost the title in the last match with an own goal, and a week before that we had lost and …
More »The life of a Sofia resident in 2021
Author: Petar Ivanov You are woken up by the bass clatter of a cango, a hammer or something similar. It is 2:15 PM, but you are used to it, you practically use it as an alarm clock. The craftsmen building the third overpass in front of the apartment building finish their coffees around this time every day and get busy with their public works. The TV is abandoned …
More »Business managed to briefly reorganize against the pandemic
Author: Rosen Sharkov Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, businesses around the world have been changing their concepts and ways of working and joining the common fight against the pandemic. An example of this in Bulgaria were textile factories that began producing clothing and masks such as – …
More »The Moral Values of Star Trek – A Libertarian Perspective
Author: Stilgar Naibov The reason consuming art is a good way to learn history is that it provides a better window through which to see how a society thinks than directly studying history. I clearly remember how in 9th or 10th grade we had to write some kind of analysis of Don Quixote …
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