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The team of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics categorically condemns the threats that MP Anton Todorov and Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov dared to make to journalist Viktor Nikolaev, host of the morning block on Nova Television. Such treatment of journalists by politicians is absolutely unacceptable and has no place in a …

Evan Fagart, bitsonline.com Roger Ver – a very well-known figure in the Bitcoin community – along with entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast Olivier Janssens is planning to found a brand new country. But here’s the catch: this country will have no government and no state, but instead will adhere to the principles of …

In Bulgaria, it is assumed that the state is the most competent in all matters related to education and therefore it should take care of everything and everyone. Currently, state regulations tell parents the following: "You are obliged to educate your child in exactly the way that we have foreseen ...

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. …

The Handmaid's Tale is a series adapted from the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. The story takes place in the United States in the present day, where a totalitarian regime serving "traditional" values has seized power and seized human freedoms, replacing them with the dystopian state of Gilead. Religious totalitarianism in a frightening dystopia The revolution of Christian …

It is very difficult to define and specify what culture and cultural policies are, but one of the most clearly defining things about culture is that it is different and specific in different places. Attempts to equate, level, unify and create general cultural policies in different places actually destroy it. Any society, no matter how …

Part 3 of a series about local referendums against investment projects in Bulgaria – their causes and consequences. You can read Part 1 and Part 2. The question is in the … question The question of the referendum in Tran “Are you against the municipality of Tran, through the Municipal Council, approving development plans, determining territories for …

Graph 1: Students as % of population per 10,000 people (1900-2016) Source: NSI There is a demographic crisis in Bulgaria. The number of students is decreasing. It is normal in such a situation that the number of teachers is also decreasing. What is actually happening is shown in the NSI infographic, which was published yesterday. It is also happening …

Part 2 of a series on local referendums against investment projects in Bulgaria – their causes and consequences. You can read Part 1 here. Taking into account the results of a local referendum and the ways in which they were achieved allows the parties to interpret them in the direction they want and according to …

Author: Georgi Georgiev History of the development of the right to freedom of expression, the right to free speech and free press and media. The article is divided into several main sections and follows a chronological order of presentation, namely: Definition of Freedom of Speech and Press and legal framework Freedom of speech and …