#Hristo Petkov

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For the first time since the potential return of Boyko Borissov as prime minister became a central theme in Bulgaria's election campaign, a GERB representative explicitly stated: "Regular government with Boyko Borissov as prime minister."

This declaration was made by GERB MP Raya Nazaryan at a pre-election event in Sofia, where she met with business representatives. Nazaryan emphasized that GERB has a 4-year management program covering all sectors and aims to implement it through a regular government with a full mandate, according to the party's press center.

"Corruption, which directly affects business and society, can only be effectively combated with concrete steps towards transparency in every part of the administration and a strong, functioning government. This is only achievable with a regular government led by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov," Nazaryan stated at the meeting.

The idea of Borissov becoming prime minister again has been circulating in recent weeks. On May 10, Daniel Mitov from GERB mentioned on television that Borissov "could become prime minister for the fourth time," but it did not gain much traction. The topic resurfaced on May 19 when "We Continue the Change" co-chairman Asen Vassilev claimed that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms chairman told him that "the plan is for Borissov to become president and Peevski to become prime minister." Peevski responded by saying that Hristo Ivanov had proposed Peevski for the presidency and premiership. On May 24, Borissov himself mentioned that WCC-DB "owes him one rotation" and that GERB would "accept a WCC-DB minister if they have their own strong prime minister." This led to pre-election billboards from WCC-DB in Sofia and Plovdiv featuring the question "Who do you want as your prime minister?" with photos of Nikolai Denkov, Borissov, and Delyan Peevski. After a GERB complaint, the Central Election Commission ordered the billboards removed, citing a violation of the Election Code.

Nazaryan was part of the GERB team, along with Denitsa Sacheva and Temenuzhka Petkova, which held 10 days of negotiations with the WCC-DB team, including Hristo Ivanov, Atanas Atanasov, Kiril Petkov, Asen Vassilev, and Nikolai Denkov. Nazaryan later described the negotiations as a "racket" and accused Hristo Ivanov of signing a coalition government agreement, which Ivanov denied.

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The two opposing blocs in Bulgaria’s coalition government – GERB/United Democratic Forces and We Continue the Change / Democratic Bulgaria – appear at a dead end amid a tense government rotation.

On Thursday, GERB leader Boyko Borissov said his party would give its partners one more day to accept its ministerial list which was announced on Tuesday. Also on Thursday, WCC/DB demanded that GERB come up with a new “plan, adequate to the crisis you’ve created”. 

Bulgaria is in the midst of a planned power rotation after the parties in power agreed on a strategy that would see the first nine months governed by Nikolai Denkov of We Continue the Change with GERB’s Mariya Gabriel acting as vice PM.

The two would then switch positions in March.  But the transfer of power has triggered a series of clashes, more noticeable since Monday, when GERB received a mandate from President Rumen Radev. 

GERB has been criticised for announcing a line of ministers not coordinated with WCC and DB despite long discussions. WCC leader Kiril Petkov claimed Borissov is not even answering his calls. “I then left him a message saying fear is not a good advisor,” he said in a TV interview on Wednesday. 

WCC has hinted that GERB is also clearly reluctant to discuss further measures around Bulgaria’s judicial reform. “After all, a working judicial system would see Borissov arrested,” Venezia Nemsova of WCC said on Wednesday.

Developments have caused a fresh row with designated PM Gabriel. So far, she has acted as a mediator between the blocs and had a good working relationship with outgoing PM Denkov. But last week, Gabriel changed her tone. GERB’s draft of the cabinet would see Gabriel acting as PM while retaining the post of Foreign Minister – which WCC and DB find controversial. 

WCC co-leader Assen Vassilev called Gabriel “the beautiful new face of the mafia”:  “We never left the negotiation table, it was GERB who did this … and announced a cabinet without the people on the list knowing that they will be nominated as ministers; I honestly could not believe what was happening,” Vassilev said in a TV interview on Wednesday. 

Although the ministerial offerings are not that different from those who have served since June, a major sticking point between the parties is that GERB wants the pro-Western, pro-Ukraine Defence Minister Todor Tagarev of WCC replaced.

GERB has not explained why it is eager to oust Tagarev, or why it is putting upfront a rather unknown figure, Hristo Gadjev, who has been climbing the party ranks since 2007 and was previously a secretary in the Defence Ministry (2010-2013). 

GERB member Vladislav Goranov, who in 2023 was sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act, told Bulgarian National Radio on Thursday that “it’s unlikely that talks will continue”.

But if the current mandate is returned unfulfilled, it will be then handed to WCC and DB, which would have no chance of parliamentary support and that would lead to snap elections. 

A 2021-2023 stalemate yielded five general elections in Bulgaria, with different parties matching the nation’s thirst for change after GERB’s long dominance of politics since 2008.

The stalemate has produced new fixtures, with pro-Russia Revival improving its turnout in every election, and newcomers There’s Such a Nation winning the popular vote in July 2021, before then fading.

Pro-Western reformist parties We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria found increased public trust and won elections at the end of 2021 only to be ousted by the GERB-led opposition in 2022 and, in order to break the cycle, reluctantly siding with GERB in 2023. 

This has led to the reinvention of GERB, while strongman Borissov has given way to new players like Gabriel. GERB returned to power last June when a coalition was established between GERB/UDF and WCC/DB, under the leadership of WCC’s Denkov over shared ambitions for Eurozone and Schengen area entrance. 

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Trust Game

Trust Game (2023) #MartinMakariev #YanaMarinova #LuizaGrigorova #VladimirZombori #MariaKatsarova #PlamenManassiev Mehr auf:

Игра на доверие Jahr: 2023 Genre: Drama Regie: Martin Makariev Hauptrollen: Yana Marinova, Luiza Grigorova, Vladimir Zombori, Maria Katsarova, Plamen Manassiev, Aleksandar Dimov, Hristo Petkov, Hristiyana Yotova … Filmbeschreibung: Eine Geschichte über starke Frauen, die kämpfen, um ihre freie Willensentscheidung zu schützen…

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Hristo Botev Day and Bulgarian History

Like every year on 2nd June the country came to an halt. Exactly at 12.00, a 2-minute siren sounds across the Bulgaria and people stop and stand as a sign of respect to everyone who died for the liberty and independence of Bulgaria.

Poet, journalist and revolutionary Hristo Botev was born in Kalofer with his father, Botyo Petkov being one of the most significant figures of the late period of the Bulgarian National Revival towards the end of the Ottoman occupation.

After a public speech against the Ottoman authorities and the wealthy Bulgarians (whom he alleged were collaborating with the Ottomans) Botev had to flee to Romania, at the time an asylum for many Bulgarian exiles.

There he lived in an abandoned mill with Vasil Levski, the eventual leader of the Bulgarian Secret Resistance Committees.

In 1871 he became editor of the revolutionary emigrant newspaper "Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants", where he began publishing his early poetic works.

While imprisoned for some months, due to his close collaboration with the Russian revolutionaries, Botev started working for the "Liberty" newspaper and published a number of feuilletons, aimed at those wealthy Bulgarians who did not take part in the revolutionary movement.

With the capture and eventual killing of Vasil Levski, the leader of the Bulgarian uprising, by Ottoman authorities in 1872, the Bulgarian revolutionary movement was put in danger.

In order to take advantage of the international situation (the mounting tension between the Ottoman Empire on one side, and Serbia and Russia on the other), and because the revolutionary network, established by Levski, was still relatively intact and could take an active part in the preparations, Botev intended to start an uprising at the first possible moment. Also the revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1875 inspired Botev and his followers to think that Bulgaria was ready for a rebellion as well. They thought that the greater the turmoil in the Balkans, the more attention this would attract among the Great Powers.

Botev was elected president of the Bulgarian Central Revolutionary Committee (BCRC) in 1875, the same year the unsuccessful Stara Zagora Uprising took place.

By the beginning of 1876 the Bulgarian revolutionary émigrés in Romania were expexting a general armed uprising of Bulgarians against Ottoman occupation to happen at any moment. Therefore they crossed the Danube by boat, recruited and equipped fighters and the news arrived that the 1876 April Rebellion has started.

Botev commanded the company, which later on became main reason for the Russian - Turkish war and the Bulgaria's Liberation from the Ottoman empire. He came up with a genius plan to cross into Ottoman territory without alerting the authorities. The rebels disguised themselves as gardeners and boarded the passenger ship Radetzky in small groups at different ports. After the last group's boarding at Bechet the rebels retrieved their concealed weapons and took control of the steamship. Captain Engländer was so moved by Botev's motivation that he rendered full support and even later refused to cooperate with the Ottoman authorities when they requested the use of his ship to pursue the rebel company.

Botev and his men disembarked near Kozloduy and quickly realised, that, despite previous enthusiastic messages the 3rd Revolutionary District had not risen. Even worse, Ottoman army garrisons and bashi-bazouks (merceneries) were thickly patrolling the area. The rebels decided to retreat to the Vratsa Mountains. On their way they tried to rouse the Bulgarian population, but people were to intimidated by the overwhelming Ottoman military presence and refused to join an open rebellion.

On 18 May the massing bashi-bazouks caught up with the company in force, and Botev had to go to ground on the Milin Kamak Hill some 50 km from the Danube. The rebels managed to hold off the numerically superior Ottoman irregulars without taking serious casualties until the arrival of two Ottoman companies of regular troops. The regulars inflicted heavy casualties among the rebels from a safe distance, but their attempts to follow up with frontal charges were repulsed by rebel fire.

According to their custom the Ottomans ceased hostilities at nightfall, and the rebels split into two groups and managed to slip through the enemy lines to continue their forced march towards the mountains.

Although the next day passed without sighting the enemy, it was obvious by now that no local reinforcements would come to join the fight.

On the morning of 20 May bashi-bazouks and 5 companies of regular Ottoman troops advanced. The defense was divided into two sectors, one commanded by Voinovski and the other by Botev. Soon two battalions of Ottoman regulars, led by Hassan Hairi Bey, assaulted Voinovski's fighters, while the bashi-bazouks concentrated on Botev's position. Both defensive groups were able to defend their position.

At dusk, when the Ottomans withdrew for the night, a single bullet, most probably fired by a concealed Ottoman sharpshooter, hit Botev in the chest, killing him instantly. After the death of their leader and chief inspiration, the company suffered a serious drop in morale and began to disperse. Very few managed to evade capture or death. In all, 130 company members were killed and most of the others captured and imprisoned or executed.

Soon, Botev became a mythical figure in the Bulgarian National Revival, and is commemorated today as one of the two greatest Bulgarian revolutionaries, alongside Vasil Levski.

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Dead Can Dance’s Dyonisus, Act II: The Invocation - Directed and Edited by Hristo Petkov

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OOOO - The Dream of Gogol

OOOO – The Dream of Gogol

The 52nd Dimitria Festival has begun. This self-confident international theatre, visual art, dance, film and music festival revives Thessaloniki under the guidance of a very specific common thread: «the path of renewal and extroversion. The path of dialogue and interaction». And what better way to plunge the audience in this hellish otherness, as some might say, than with Bulgarian-based Sfumato…

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Premijeri Grčke i Bugarske označili početak rada na FSRU u Aleksandrupolisu

Aleksandrupolis kao novo čvorište energetske bezbednosti i autonomije Grčke i JI Evrope

Na specijalnoj ceremoniji održanoj danas u starom skladištu lučke carine u Aleksandrupolisu je dat „signal za početak rada“ na izgradnji plutajuće jedinice za skladištenje i regasifikaciju (FSRU) tečnog prirodnog gasa (LNG) koja je u vlasništvu Gastrade SA. Premijer Grčke Kirijakos Micotakis (Kyriakos Mitsotakis) i premijer Bugarske Kiril Petkov potpisali su specijalnu simboličnu plaketu za pokretanje projekta, koji će postati novo energetsko čvorište i igraće ključnu ulogu ne samo u energetskoj bezbednosti i nezavisnosti Grčke, već i cele Jugoistočne Evrope, i odlučujuće će doprineti nesmetanoj energetskoj tranziciji i energetskom pluralizmu ovog izuzetno osetljivog regiona.

Događaju su prisustvovali i predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić, premijer Severne Makedonije Dimitar Kovačevski, ambasador SAD u Grčkoj Džefri Pajat (Geoffrey Pyatt), kao i predstavnici lokalne vlasti, među kojima i regionalni guverner Istočne Makedonije i Trakije, Hristos Metios (Christos Metios) i gradonačelnik Aleksandrupolisa Janis Zampukis (Giannis Zampoukis).

Svečanoj ceremoniji su takođe prisustvovali i akcionari Gastrade SA, među kojima osnivačica i predsednica Upravnog odbora Gastrade Elmina Kopeluzu (Elmina Copelouzou), izvršni direktor Gaslog Cyprus Investments Ltd Paolo Enoizi, predsednik DEPA Commercial Joanis Papadopulos (Ioannis Papadopoulos) i izvršni direktor kompanije Konstantinos Ksifaras (Konstantinos Xifaras), generalni direktor Bulgartransgaz EAD Vladimir Malinov, kao i izvršna direktorka DESFA Marija Rita Gali (Maria Rita Galli).

Izgradnja i rad Aleksandrupolis FSRU će ojačati stratešku ulogu Grčke kao energetskog čvorišta u širem regionu jugoistočne Evrope i ponudiće alternativne izvore i puteve snabdevanja gasom u regionu, povećavajući energetsku sigurnost snabdevanja i energetsku autonomiju, u periodu velikih izazova. Projekat će takođe učiniti Aleksandrupolis energetskom kapijom celog regiona jugoistočne Evrope, naglašavajući strateški značaj grada i podstičući lokalnu ekonomiju i zapošljavanje.

FSRU, čiji je kapacitet 153.500 m3 (kubnih metara) LNG-a, biće povezan sa Nacionalnim sistemom za prenos prirodnog gasa (NNGTS) Grčke gasovodom dužine 28 km, kojim će se gasifikovani LNG prenositi na tržišta Grčke, Bugarske i šireg regiona (Rumunije, Srbije, severne Makedonija itd.), ali i sa perspektivom snabdevanja Ukrajine.

Očekuje se da će Aleksandrupolis FSRU biti u funkciji do kraja 2023. godine, a ugovoreni kapacitet regasifikacije je već dostigao do 60% njegovog tehničkog kapaciteta od 5,5 milijardi kubnih metara godišnje. Napominje se da je Nezavisni sistem prirodnog gasa (INGS) Aleksandrupolisa uključen i finansiran Operativnim programom NSRF (dokument na nacionalnom nivou kojim se programiraju sredstva evropskih fondova) „Konkurentnost, preduzetništvo i inovacije 2014-2020“ (EPAnEK), sa iznosom javne potrošnje od 166,7 miliona evra.

Gastrade je podneo Regulatornom organu za energetiku (RAE) Grčke još jedan zahtev za novu licencu za Nezavisni sistem prirodnog gasa (INGS), za projekat „Trakijski INGS“, koji će se takođe sastojati od Plutajuće jedinice za skladištenje i regasifikaciju (FSRU) i biće razvijen u blizini prve FSRU u Trakijskom moru, u priobalju Aleksandrupolisa.

Osnivačica i predsednica Upravnog odbora Gastrade Elmina Kopeluzu je izjavila: „Energetska mapa se menja. Sada ulazimo u završnu fazu implementacije FSRU Aleksandrupolis, važnog i inovativnog projekta za Grčku. U periodu velike nestabilnosti geopolitičkog i energetskog okruženja, Grčka ovim projektom pokazuje Evropi da može da odgovori čvrstim strateškim koracima na neizvesnost vremena i kroz rast ponudi rešenja od kojih svi mogu imati koristi. FSRU Aleksandrupolis otvara novu energetsku kapiju za Grčku i Jugoistočnu Evropu, koja dolazi u kritičnom trenutku da ispuni hitne nacionalne i evropske potrebe. Iz Aleksandrupolisa koji je snažno prihvatio ovaj projekat, učinili smo Grčku energetski referentnom tačkom u regionu, doprinoseći energetskoj bezbednosti i diversifikaciji izvora snabdevanja, uz dobrobit za milione građana u različitim zemljama“.

Potpredsednik i izvršni direktor Gastrade Konstantinos Sifnaios je naglasio da: „Strateška i ekonomska neophodnost, ali i značaj projekta LNG stanice Aleksandrupolis je više nego očigledan u novom energetskom okruženju. Ovim veoma važnim projektom koji je okupio zemlje iz okruženja, promovišući saradnju, solidarnost i na kraju mir u regionu, jačamo regionalnu energetsku sigurnost, energetsku likvidnost, sigurnost i dobrobit građana širom regiona JI Evrope. Želimo da se zahvalimo našim akcionarima, koji su kamen temeljac ukupnog uspeha, kao i velikoj mreži organizacija i ljudi koji su doprineli pokretanju Aleksandrupolis LNG stanice i naravno centralne vlade i lično premijeru zemlje za nepokolebljivu i suštinsku podršku projektu. Aleksandrupolis je kapija a Bugarska karika u lancu snabdevanja ovog projekta na putu ka Srbiji i Rumuniji. Drugi FSRU, koji je prošlog četvrtka dobio licencu RAE, omogućiće dalje proširenje ovog lanca na Moldaviju i Ukrajinu. Sa ova dva projekta doprinećemo stvaranju pravog regionalnog energetskog čvorišta u regionu koje će ojačati ekonomiju, bezbednost i saradnju“.

Izvršni direktor Gaslog Cyprus Investments Ltd Paolo Enoizi je u ime kompanije rekao: „Svi u GasLog-u su izuzetno ponosni na naše učešće u projektu Aleksandropolis FSRU koje je danas počelo ovde u Aleksandrupolisu. Tragedija koja se trenutno dešava u Ukrajini je istakla važnost LNG-a ne samo kao goriva koje će omogućiti prelazak na svet sa nižim štetnim emisijama gasova, već i kao kritičnog elementa u planovima energetske bezbednosti mnogih zemalja. Takva sigurnost se postiže samo značajnim ulaganjem u infrastrukturu, koje danas u poređenju sa cenom i rokom isporuke ukazuje na dalekovidost osnivača Gastrade-a, Vlade Grčke i raznih akcionara koji su planirali ovu investiciju mnogo unapred. GasLog kao vodeći pomorski dobavljač LNG je doprineo ukupnoj specifikaciji FSRU, njegovim nacrtima i konačno njegovoj izgradnji i fizički će isporučiti FSRU na sidrištu u Aleksandrupolisu do kraja 2023. GasLog-ovi iskusni timovi na brodu i na kopnu će upravljati bezbednim i pouzdanim funkcionisanjem jedinice tokom narednih godina“.

Predsednik DEPA Commercial Joanis Papadopulos i izvršni direktor kompanije Konstantinos Ksifaras su u zajedničkoj izjavi naglasili: „LNG Terminal u Aleksandrupolisu, kao najveći energetski projekat u Grčkoj poslednjih godina, predstavlja stratešku investiciju koja će odlučujuće doprineti sigurnom snabdevanju naše zemlje prirodnim gasom. On jača geopolitičku poziciju i ulogu Grčke kao energetskog čvorišta u jugoistočnom Mediteranu, jer se ova investicija realizuje u trenutku kada je uloga LNG-a na tržištu prirodnog gasa već znatno uvećana. Uključenost DEPA Commercial-a u projekat potvrđuje njenu vodeću ulogu u našoj zemlji, pokazujući u praksi da je pokretačka snaga iza razvoja energetike u Grčkoj i jugoistočnoj Evropi“.

Generalni direktor Bulgartransgaz EAD Vladimir Malinov je primetio: „Značaj Nezavisnog sistema prirodnog gasa u Aleksandrupolisu kao nove energetske kapije je ključan za jugoistočnu Evropu. Terminal će obezbediti neophodne dodatne količine prirodnog gasa, nudeći pristup proizvođačima iz celog sveta i povezivanje sa odgovarajućim putevima snabdevanja svim zainteresovanim korisnicima u regionu. Nivo rezervisanih kapaciteta i interesovanje trgovaca i potrošača dokazuju kako strateški značaj terminala tako i njegovu ekonomsku efikasnost. Zahvaljujući terminalu Bugarska, Grčka i susedne zemlje moći će da iskoriste sve prednosti rastućeg tržišta LNG-a, kao i sigurnost i konkurentne cene koje ono pruža. Pristup alternativnim zalihama gasa, iz SAD, Katara, Egipta i drugih zemalja, obezbediće konkurentne cene gasa za ove zemlje. Implementacija projekta će ojačati diversifikaciju izvora prirodnog gasa i stimulisaće konkurenciju u korist poslovnih i krajnjih korisnika, uz rast likvidnosti kroz pristup LNG-u ubrzaće se proces dekarbonizacije u energetskom sektoru. Drago mi je što zajedno radimo na uspehu projekta”.

Izvršna direktorka DESFA S.A Marija Rita Gali, izjavila je: „Aleksandrupolis FSRU će učiniti da usred izazovnog međunarodnog okruženja Grčka ima vodeću ulogu u regionalnom energetskom razvoju, odlučno jačajući energetsku sigurnost Grčke i šire.  Povezivanje ovog strateški važnog projekta, putem mreže DESFA, sa postojećim i novim izvoznim pravcima ka Bugarskoj i Severnoj Makedoniji, dovešće do povećanja izvoza na tržišta jugoistočne i centralne Evrope, čime će se Grčka uspostaviti kao energetsko čvorište. DESFA će doprineti projektu, svojom ekspertizom i dugogodišnjim iskustvom od 20 godina uspešno upravljajući terminalom za regasifikaciju, ostajući posvećena razvoju ključne energetske infrastrukture koja će unaprediti sigurnost snabdevanja, značajno doprinoseći diversifikaciji izvora snabdevanja i energetske tranzicije zemlje i šireg regiona“.

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Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

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Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

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Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

[beardedmrbean]

Five are the main priorities contained in Bulgaria's management program for the period from June 2023 to December 2024, adopted by the government today. The deadline specified in the announcement of the government press service means that the tasks are planned until the end of the mandate of the cabinet with Prime Minister Mariya Gabriel, after "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" and GERB agreed on a rotation of the Prime Minister 9 months after the election of the government of Nikolay Denkov on June 6.

The program is the result of an agreement reached between "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" and GERB-SDS. It contains specific activities of the government in fulfillment of the commitments for legislative initiatives agreed between the two coalitions supporting it before the formation of the cabinet.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov stated that the program is directly related to the state's budgets and without financial support, it will remain just a set of good intentions. He called on the leaders of the parties supporting the cabinet to correct "some wrong decisions" made yesterday in the parliamentary budget and finance committee. Boyko Borissov, Kiril Petkov and Hristo Ivanov have already committed themselves to corrections.

The five priorities in the program are:

1. Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area by the end of 2023.

- The aim is to carry out all the necessary activities in order to meet the requirements of the European partners for the acceptance of the country in Schengen. The government plans to strengthen border control by creating an effective infrastructure and organization of work, with which Bulgaria will contribute to the general security of European borders. A set of new anti-corruption measures will be introduced and the security services will be reformed.

The abolition of the borders between Bulgaria and the neighboring EU countries will lead to a significant easing of traffic and a shortening of the time of stay at the borders, which will give an additional boost to tourism, trade and all other areas of cross-border business, the government states.

2. Joining the Eurozone from 1 January 2025.

- Bulgaria will work in close cooperation with the European institutions and partners in order to fulfill all the necessary conditions for the successful completion of the process. The cabinet will propose budgets for 2023 and 2024 with a 3 percent annual budget deficit. It will conduct a large-scale explanatory campaign about the benefits of the introduction of the single European currency, which aims to refute the disinformation spread and dispel the concerns of some of the Bulgarian citizens. In it, the government will defend the many benefits of the euro for citizens, businesses and the economy, such as the abolition of conversion fees; stimulation of European investments in Bulgaria and creation of more, better quality and better paid jobs; strengthening the competitiveness of Bulgarian enterprises; increasing price and economic stability and accelerating growth; facilitating and cheapening the trade of Bulgarian enterprises in the Eurozone and beyond; better integrated and therefore more efficient financial markets.

3. Controlling inflation.

- The government will take the necessary measures and reforms to stabilize the prices of goods and services and create a favorable economic environment for businesses and citizens. The Council of Ministers will support and encourage the development of innovation and industry as well as agriculture. It will strengthen control over the appropriate use of subsidies and against potential abuse of the provided financial resources.

4. Implementation of reforms and projects from the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan.

- The cabinet will take concrete actions, including through legislative initiatives, to ensure the effective implementation of the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan and the absorption of subsequent payments. The foundations will be laid for a green and digital transformation of the economy in the context of the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal. The government expects the implementation of the plan to restore the potential for growth of the economy, will develop and increase it, which in the long term will achieve the strategic goal of convergence of the Bulgarian economy and equalization of income levels in Bulgaria with those of Central Europe.

5. Improving the efficiency and transparency of municipal project management.

- The government is planning a targeted financial resource for municipal projects, which will allow municipalities to realize their priority initiatives for development and improvement of services for citizens. In order to guarantee maximum publicity and transparency in the expedient spending of the funds for the municipalities, a predictable and objective methodology for the evaluation of the projects will be developed.

[mariacallous]

Bulgaria’s two-year period of repeat elections appeared to have come an end on Tuesday as a joint government created by political opponents GERB/United Democratic Forces and We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria was approved by parliament.

The new government came to power with 132 votes in favour and 69 against.

The two blocs, which are each other’s main foes, will take office with a cabinet that will govern for 18 months.

It will be led for the first nine months by We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria, with Nickolay Denkov as prime minister, and for the second nine months by GERB/United Democratic Forces, with Denkov resigning and Mariya Gabriel stepping in.

Since early 2021 Bulgaria has endured repeated elections and rounds of failed coalition talks, only briefly interrupted by the nine-month reformist coalition administration led by We Continue the Change with Kiril Petkov as prime minister.

Both GERB/United Democratic Forces and We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria have framed the partnership as a compromise for Bulgaria’s future.

“We have far too many dividing lines with GERB and they won’t disappear just because we’re creating a cabinet,” Hristo Ivanov, leader of Democratic Bulgaria, said in parliament.

Ivanov said he sees the new government as an “interim cabinet but one selected by parliament” and a way for the parliament to have an extended life in which reforms can be passed.

President Rumen Radev remains highly skeptical of the unlikely union, however.

“I hope that parliament won’t betray the national interests in the same way the leaders of the coalition have already betrayed their voters,” said Radev, who in 2021 helped We Continue the Change’s Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev launch their career in politics by choosing them in his interim cabinet before the duo established their own party.

After We Continue the Change won elections in November 2021 and expressed a pro-Ukraine and pro-military aid stance, Radev turned vehemently against the coalition led by Petkov.

Radev’s tone was emulated by There’s Such a People, whose MP Filip Stanev called the new cabinet “the league of extraordinary frauds”.

Pro-Kremlin parties Revival and Bulgarian Socialist Party were also heavily critical of the new government.

Kornelia Ninova, leader of the Socialists, showed her disdain for the new cabinet by reading a statement generated by ChatGPT and describing the government as a “one-armed, double-headed Frankenstein”.

Revival leader Kostadin Kostadinov said that We Continue the Change’s members should be arrested for a “velvet coup d’ètat” for “collaborating with the US”, referring to a leaked audiotape in which party members were heard discussing coordination with unspecified embassies.

Surprisingly, MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, which is focused on the Turkish diaspora and is a traditional ally to GERB, only cast two votes in favour of the cabinet – those of leader Mustafa Karadaya and Magnitsky-sanctioned, Pandora Papers-exposed oligarch Delyan Peevski.

Meanwhile, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev continues to put pressure on the new government.

On Tuesday, the prosecution said it was investigating Petkov for being nominated as interim Economy Minister in 2021 in a breach of the constitution because he held a dual Bulgarian and Canadian citizenship. Petkov stated that he is ready to give up his political immunity. A previous investigation by the prosecution in 2021 said that there was no wrongdoing.

The prosecution has previously looked into the allegation that GERB leader Boyko Borissov was involved in money-laundering. On Tuesday, the prosecution said that there is new evidence in the case, connected to schemes in Turkey.

[religionistanbul]

Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

[istanbulhints]

Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

[istanbulgaybars]

Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.

[istanbulight]

Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation

The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution behaved with dignity and courage before the Turkish court in Sofia. He never betrayed a single name, took all the responsibility on himself and defended the right of the Bulgarian people to fight for their national liberation. The Apostle of Freedom rejected on several occasions the demand of the court to tell about his activities and to beg for mercy from the padishah. On February 6 (19) 1873, he was hanged near Sofia, but he has remained for ever in his people’s memory.

Levski’s death was a severe blow to the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, but soon another prominent figure stood out in this movement — that of the poet of genius and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Botev was born in 1847 in the town of Kalofer at the foot of the Balkan Range. He was the son of a well-known teacher and functionary of the National Revival period Botyu Petkov. He studied in Odessa, Russia, as a scholarship student of the Odessa Society — a society set up by rich Bulgarian merchants.

He moved in progressive circles and studied avidly the world of the Russian revolutionary democrats. The rich merchants from the Odessa Society did not like this and in the second year at school they took his scholarship away. He stayed in Russia for another year as teacher in the Bessarabian village of Zadunaevka and returned to his native Kalofer in 1867. There he taught while his father was away, but the speech he made on the Day of Bulgarian Letters forced him to leave Bulgaria immediately, for otherwise he would have been arrested. Thus he joined the Bulgarian emigrants in Bucharest and devoted himself entirely to his people’s liberation.

Dumana Bulgarskite

In 1871 in the town of BraHa Botev began to publish the newspaper Dumana Bulgarskite emigranti{The Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants), in which he displayed his brilliant qualities of a publicist and revolutionary. In 1872 he moved to Bucharest and together with Lyuben Karavelov worked in the organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He published on his own the satirical newspaper Budilnik (The Clarion Call). The genius of Hristo Botev soon placed him on top of Bulgarian national-revolutionary and revolutionary- democratic thought. He shared the utopian socialist ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, but he was also aware and pointed out the growing role of the social forces which the development of capitalism was pushing to the fore.