Borisov in the mirror of paranoia

23:07, 24 Dec 20
Spas Spasov

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. Read more »

English, Opinion Bedroom, Boyko Borisov, Investigation, pictures, video

All our suffering

23:10, 3 Nov 20
Spas Spasov

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. Read more »

English, Opinion caricature, Jean Jaurès, minute of silence, Prophet Muhammad, Samuel Patti

“But maybe Europe should” peek into the bedrooms of Bulgarian “journalism”

22:55, 2 Oct 20
Spas Spasov

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". Read more »

English, Opinion Bedroom, Boyko Borisov, journalism, pictures, press, press freedom, video

Hendrik Sittig: „To have quality journalism, you should want it“

19:38, 6 Mar 20
Za Istinata

Interview with Hendrik Sittig, Head of the Media Programme South East Europe of KonradAdenauer-Stiftung for the Bulgarian news portal „Mediapool.bg“, published on 5th of March 2020. Read more »

English, Opinion Hendrik Sittig, KonradAdenauer, media

2019 – the year in which we realized that we are accustomed to everything

23:24, 2 Jan 20
Спас Спасов

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. Read more »

English, Opinion 2019, politics, pope Francis, votes

Jock Palfreeman’s short stick

22:50, 4 Oct 19
Spas Spasov

Stoyan Stoichkov was released from the Varna Prison on January 31 this year. This happened 5 years and 24 days before the expiration of the 17-year sentence imposed on him for comlicity in the murder of Bulgarian student Martin Borilski in Paris in 2000. Stoichkov’s early parole was ordered by the court a week earlier. A reference on the events preceding the release, provided by the Varna District Court, shows that the case was filed at the request of Stoichkov on December 27 last year. For unknown reasons, the court ruling, as well as the reasons for it, have not been published on the website of the District Court in Varna so far. Read more »

More on the news, Opinion court, Jock Palfreeman, justice, Martin Borilski

The time of the villains

22:42, 30 Sep 19
Spas Spasov

The atrocities often become visible suddenly and too late – only when they have treacherously revived the past. When they have replaced the present with it in order to deprive of sense any effort to move forward. This was done on Sunday by the Bulgarian National Television with the interview of the former Attorney General Nikola Filchev. Read more »

English, Opinion BNT, Bulgarian national television, journalism, Nikola Filchev, prosecution, television

Dismantle this country!

22:30, 13 Sep 19
Spas Spasov

“We do all kinds of dismantling: of microphones, journalists, media”. Until today, this post on the Facebook profile of the fired from “Nova TV” Genka Shikerova sounded just as an ingenious metaphor. Today, at 6 o’clock in the morning, the dismantling became a fact. For five hours the radio signal of the program “Horizont” of […] Read more »

English, Opinion Bulgdria, censorship, fake news, freedom of expression, freedom of press, journalism

The dismantled microphones are disrespectful and threat to journalists

22:08, 3 Sep 19
Spas Spasov

The scandal with dismantled microphones at the joint briefing on the premier Boyko Borisov and the new elected President of the European Commission - Ursula von der Leyen is growing. Read more »

English, Opinion censorship, freedom of press, freedom of speech, journalism

The plague is the lesser evil. The problem is the uncontrolled power

22:08, 7 Aug 19
Spas Spasov

Two crises overshadowed the beginning of holiday August. Although seemingly having nothing in common, they still put the state in the framework of its serious problems - the pathogenic fusion between legislative and executive power, the negligent incompetence of the administration and the failed trust in the institutions. Read more »

English, Opinion legislation, pover, prosecutor