On October 1, 1888, the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" was founded. The idea for the university was born eight years earlier, in 1880, when the Ministry of Education submitted to the National Assembly a draft Basic Law on Schools, which provided for the establishment of a Bulgarian higher education institution that would accept high school graduates. …

Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week was one of the most anticipated political events of the past month. Traditionally, the first addresses of newly elected American presidents from this high rostrum receive close attention, as analysts, diplomats and politicians try to read …

Adam Ozimek, Forbes.com Note: This article is about the TV show Game of Thrones and contains spoilers. Westeros’ technological and economic development seems to have been frozen for a very long time. Bran the Builder built Winterfell and the Wall about 8,000 years ago, suggesting that the same medieval building technologies were in place back then. …

To participate in elections, you must register in advance. This is what we recommend from the Bulgarian Libertarian Society in a special report prepared by Kaloyan Pravov. It examines the main problems of the Bulgarian electoral process such as controlled voting, electoral tourism, dead souls on the lists and the potential for manipulation of the real electoral vote through …

Author: Kaloyan Pravov Background The summer of 2013 is a turning point in modern Bulgarian history. This year marks the birth and conduct of the last major political campaign of the Bulgarian pro-European democratic civil society. For over 400 days, citizens in most regional cities of Bulgaria demonstrated their defiance to the state, which dared to betray the services …

The national representative survey "Attitudes towards Tax Policy in Bulgaria" was recently published. It was prepared by the Market Links agency on behalf of the environmental association "For the Earth" and presents many curious facts about public opinion regarding the Bulgarian tax system. Since the topic has always been of primary interest to us, the authors in ...

The case of the total ban on abortion in Poland and the mass protest of women around the world #BlackMonday has reawakened the debate about women's rights over the fetus they carry. The article aims to show the libertarian view on this very sensitive topic. There are disputes in society that at first glance seem eternal ...

Rights are one of the most crucial political concepts in the modern world. They are the expression of Enlightenment humanism and often serve as the moral foundation of Western society. But is it possible for certain rights to be detrimental to the individual? Is it possible for a concept designed to guarantee freedom to lead to tyranny? This, …

Yesterday, Offnews published an article written by Ivaylo Dinev, in which he criticized the restriction of the right of students from certain specialties to apply for European scholarships in the amount of 600 leva. Although the topic is extremely banal and insignificant against the background of other problems in education, the sophism that flowed from …

Apparently, the shelf life of a story in the Bulgarian public space is a maximum of a week. The entire media-expert elite hastily stopped being outraged about the Panama Papers and moved on to their next object of outrage – the volunteer citizen patrols along the border. Essentially, the rational and calm debate on the important topics related to the files …