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A clip, filmed by a scoundrel's phone, who is harassing police officers leaning against a service car, has been circulating on social media. It has attracted good-natured approval and quickly turned into a meme at least as popular as the one-day Sofia fog. However, the hero of the video not only created fun for the hard-working, native Facebook audience, but also demonstrated civic …

Author: Momchil Petrov An unusual protest took place in Sofia this weekend. Billed as a “Prayer March for Free Profession of Faith,” the event’s goal was to oppose the changes to the Law on Religious Denominations that were voted on in the first reading. The protest was organized by the Protestant churches in Sofia and was supported …

Guest author: Dimitar Tomov Dimitar Tomov is a young entrepreneur, owner of a small business in the technology sector, who, like many other Bulgarian entrepreneurs and workers, is puzzled by the confusing complexity of the Bulgarian tax code: The confusion between gross and net salary in Bulgaria does not come only because of the terms used. People have long used …

"Banality is the eighth deadly sin," says Milen Ruskov, the author of "Vazvishenie", "Chamkoria" and "Pocket Encyclopedia of Mysteries" in an interview. "The first person to compare a woman's sides to roses is a genius. The first to repeat it, of course, is an idiot," says Salvador Dali. For me, there is nothing more terrible than sameness. …

Recently, a professor from Maastricht University presented a report in which he recommended that the number of higher education institutions in Bulgaria be reduced to 10, because “this was the European practice.” The argument is that until this reform is carried out, any increase in funding for science will not achieve the desired result, and that only through such …

As is well known, as long as there is someone reading: 1. Taxes are on average 50% of the income of an individual or household, everyone can check the individual picture at kolkodavam.bg; 2. There is money for airplanes and everything else, but there are also irrational budget expenditures of 0.5-1% of GDP...

Guest Author: Alexander Mihaylov I recently came across this article in Club Z, written by Evgeniy Dainov, where the author (once again) criticizes the Bulgarian people (and folk psychology) these days as having degraded to an extremely low and even barbaric level. The specific example of this that Dainov addresses is the recent riots in Asenovgrad. According to the author, …

From EKIP we republish from Facebook the comment of Teodor Dimokenchev regarding the local referendums recently held in Tran and Uglen: Once again, a local referendum is being held in a Bulgarian settlement (Uglen) to approve a serious infrastructure project. Once again, investments have been stopped by the local population. I am personally …

Daniel Angelov I recently participated in a student essay competition about Bulgaria and its membership in the European Union. Almost all the participants, to my great regret, were like a gramophone record and emphasized how we are the poorest and most corrupt country (and I was left with the impression that we are almost the DPRK of …

In just a few days, the official election campaign will begin. Smiling and presentable party members will pour out promises of a bright future, solutions to every problem, a new child for every grandmother and… media vouchers. We decided to write a few lines about them, provoked by an incident on Facebook, which we became unwitting witnesses to. Yesterday (22.02) in …