Mass protests in Bulgaria have been going on for two months, but the government stubbornly refuses to resign. Despite the obvious damage this is doing to the ratings of the government and the prime minister himself, despite the increasingly critical tone of the foreign press, GERB and United Patriots are determined to hold on to power until the last moment...
More »Supporting commas
"The worst financial crisis is coming." With this argument, Boyko Borisov refused to resign in July. It may seem like a long time ago or even like a past life, but in fact the quote is less than two months old, and the reason it feels so distant is that this argument was not ...
More »To leave "Mutroland"
On Friday morning, the media broke the news that the toy retail chain "Hippoland" was being inspected by the National Revenue Agency, Economic Police, and the General Directorate of Market Supervision. This happened exactly one day after employees of the company joined the organized protests against the government and after ...
More »The passive gerbera
The passive Gerber does not define himself as a supporter of any party. The passive Gerber has nothing against GERB not being in power, as long as no other party comes to power. The passive Gerber does not want GERB to fall from power because the communists will come. The passive Gerber believes that …
More »People of culture, state money makes you unfree
Where are the people of culture? Why aren't directors of museums, galleries and theaters protesting too? The obvious and logical question with a clear – but ungiven – answer has been circulating on social networks in recent days. Here we will give this answer. There are people of culture who support the government. This should not be …
More »GERB will leave as BSP because it has become BSP
Daniela Daritkova has probably had more pleasant Friday nights than last night. The chairwoman of the GERB parliamentary group was locked up for hours at BNT after her appearance on Panorama. In her appearance, she called for dialogue with the protesters, but a little later it turned out that there was a considerable gap between words and actions.
More »(Un)productive for the problems of Mladost and Sofia
The Sofia neighborhood of Mladost has become a center of what American political scientists call grassroots activism. Starting with the election of the controversial and currently indicted Desislava Ivancheva as district mayor in October 2016 – through the support of local committees and gravitating activists of small urban parties in opposition to …
More »The image problem of the concessionaire in Bansko
The work with my beloved Pirin has predictably become boring, so it needs to be commented on again. We humans love the light and fear the darkness. We associate it with the unknown, the unfamiliar, evil. Monsters are born in our imagination there. Well, it's the same in business. What do the large mass of protesters want for Pirin? …
More »Three years later, or how the "smart and beautiful" became just the "beautiful"
On June 13, 3 years ago, I was at my boring job, in my boring office, waiting for another boring workday to end, when... ...regularly scrolling through my Facebook feed and without any particular expectations for anything exciting, I realized that I already had a casus belli (cause for war) with the then government of Plamen Oresharski, ...
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