Spas Spasov

The leader of the radical pro-Russian party “Vazrazhdane” Kostadin Kostadinov tried to expel journalists from a press conference in Sofia on Wednesday.

Five days - this was the time needed for the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Interior to confirm the foretold death of all illusions that from the moral quagmire in which the state has sunk, a sudden justice can be born.

For the school boys and girls in France, Monday was the first day of school after the fearsome All Saints' Day carnival. But also, the first since the terrible October 16, when the teacher Samuel Patti was beheaded in the Paris suburb of Pantene because he showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on freedom of expression.

With a decision under it. 3 of its last meeting agenda, the Council of Ministers will propose to President Rumen Radev to issue a decree awarding the publisher of “Trud” newspaper Petyo Blaskov with the Order of St. St. Cyril and Methodius - necklace. According to a proposal made by the Minister of Culture, Blaskov should receive it "for his contribution to the development of contemporary Bulgarian journalism".

According to rough estimates, the reconstruction of the infamous “Vasil Levski” Blvd in Varna, which was completed last year, costs to taxpayers about BGN 38 million per kilometer. At the same time, the officially announced prices of 10 lots of the Hemus Highway, currently under construction, show that a kilometer of it costs an average of about BGN 9-10 million. The difference is almost four times.

Between 6 and 8 thousand cubic meters of heavily polluted fecal water are poured every day into Varna Lake from a broken pipeline The pipe was not dug into the lake bed as envisaged in the project for its construction worth 5 million euros. BGN 1.3 million are needed for the repairs but it is not clear who will do it or when.

Operative workers from the former criminal militia are confronted with the silence and indifference of citizens who have witnessed a crime that authorities are investigating. Thus, in one sentence, the story of the old Bulgarian film "I don't know, I didn't hear, I didn't see" can be retold. Another "film", in which a business trip to Israel of Varna Mayor Ivan Portnich turned into, in the winter of 2018, turned out to have a very similar plot. So similar that even its title may be the same.

The sanatorium-health complex (SOC) "Kamchia" near Varna, which Russia could turn into a "cultural and humanitarian platform" for pursuing its interests in Europe, is built on a land plot acquired in one of the most scandalous state property deals on the North Black Sea coast. This is shown by a report prepared by the Varna District Administration in February 2010.

According to “Alpha Research”, 33% of Bulgarians rate 2019 as better for them. For 14% the year was worse. But in the life of the largest group of respondents - 53% - the year has not brought any change.

Exactly two weeks ago, the journalist Elena Kirova, host at Varna’s “Cherno More” TV, left her job after her show “Posoki.eu” was suddenly taken off air and her salary was significantly reduced.