Don’t give money to Parvanov. Even on Christmas!

The original in Bulgarian – http://www.ekipnews.com/?p=3720
Georgi Parvanov – Bulgarian President, former secret agent in the Communist State Security Services.
It is now the beginning of the sixth issue of the “Bulgarian Christmas”. So far, judging from the report on the official website of the campaign the money raised are 11 662 026 BGN. Most of them [...]

Bulgaria – the Russian Trojan horse in EU

Very interesting post describing how Bulgaria is considered to be the Trojan horse in EU for Russia and how its current behaviour continuously follows that trend. The actual copyright on this phrase belongs to the Russian representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov.
It is funny how every single person in Bulgaria knows that the government is [...]

Corrupted judge caught with bribe receives money back

The head of Varna Administrative Court Anelia Tzvetkova who was caught receiving 10 000 Bulgarian Levs bribe on 17 July this year will receive back her money according to the decision of the Court.
As usual in such cases the judge Tzvetkova suddenly felt very ill and started serious treatment from illnesses which symptoms obviously appear [...]

Knowing your way around Sofia

A recent project of the Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform called Comprehensible Bulgaria has been started with a view to make life of non-Bulgarian speaking visitors to Bulgaria easier.
All of this would have been good if the streets named after non-Bulgarians were translated as the name is in fact and not to some [...]

Last Investment Bank

Recent rumours about the bankruptcy of one of the banks in Bulgaria – First Investment Bank made lots of their clients to withdraw their savings from the bank and to close accounts.
As a reply the Executive Director Ms. Maya Georgieva said that “who believes in rumours should take his money back”. Lady, every schoolboy knows [...]

Why do the Brits leave?

A recent article in Capital newspaper discusses the reasons that led to decrease in real estate sales in the last year. It is not a secret that after the initial boom currently there are about 20 000 apartments for sale in Bansko and over 200 000 on the Black Sea. Their number is increasing every [...]

When a nice man feels bad – this is blues, when a bad man feels nice – this is chalga…

Translation of this wise thought. There is lot of truth about Bulgarian way of making fun.

Local elections in Bulgaria. And the winner is…

As you can imagine the winner is… mafia which tightens the grip. In the case with Bansko and the surrounding areas the “good” old mayors remain the same. One can easily see how much money are invested and about to be invested in the area so there is no interest to play “free” elections.