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| Issue 33, June 2009 |
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"Little is said about the fact that 70 to 80 percent of our MPs are faceless people. The ordinary citizen can recognise only a few of those elected to parliament. We have heard the names of 20 or so more, but we can hardly link their names to a face." ... more
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| Issue 33, June 2009 |
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 The Russian government or, to put it in another way, the Russians cannot forget and will not forgive Bulgaria for slipping out of their hands; the Russians spent millions and sacrificed hundreds of thousands to make Bulgaria independent of the Turks, and consequently they think that the Bulgarians, now free from the Turkish yoke, will let them breathe down their necks. ... more
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JOKE OF THE MONTH
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| Issue 33, June 2009 |
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 Voting for the European Parliament will be debased if Bulgarians turn it into a vote of confidence in the government or any specific individual. Instead, Bulgarians should focus on the debate about reforming the EU institutions, enlargement, security ... more
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| Issue 32, May 2009 |
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 Pontius Pilate, who did perhaps the most famous hand washing in history 2,000 years ago, has had an unexpected follow-up in Sofia. On an April night, as some seasonal rain was falling over the city, vehicles bearing "National Crisis Headquarters" signs were washing the streets. On the following night, these same streets were washed again, this time by vehicles that did not belong to those national crisis headquarters. ... more
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| Issue 32, May 2009 |
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 "The Bulgarians, though believed to be of Turanian origin, have been so completely Slavised that they may now be regarded as a branch of the Southern Slavs, with whom they must eventually throw in their lot. So efficient have they shown themselves to be, during the last 50 years, in almost every field except those of propaganda and diplomacy, that many people besides themselves have thought them entitled to become the leading power in the Balkans. ... more
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| Issue 32, May 2009 |
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"There is no other case in Bulgaria's history when a man in uniform has dumped his epaulettes in such a way. This implies no sense of patriotism at all. If you don't want to serve in the police, you should take your hat and leave." ... more
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| Issue 31, April 2009 |
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"Yes, on the very eve of this visit to Moscow there were appeals, rather insistent appeals, for me to 'catch a diplomatic cold' and lower the level sharply and manifestly. Jokingly, I asked whether we should not apply this approach to those countries where the financial and economic crisis began and thus punish them, figuratively speaking." ... more
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JOKE OF THE MONTH
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| Issue 31, April 2009 |
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Porn industry, known as "pop folk" or "chalga," is very well developed and always goes with the same kind of music. Pop folk is the soft porn and chalga is the hard variety. The only difference is in the lyrics of the playback. ... more
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
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| Issue 31, April 2009 |
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 The government seems to have noticed what Bulgarian families have been experiencing for years: that some of the "traditional staples" of Bulgarian cuisine such as good cheese, good sausages and tasty tomatoes are now largely a thing of the past - or of the imagination of some patriotically-minded Bulgarians. Here are Graham Greene's observations on Bulgarian food in the 1960s ... more
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| Issue 30, March 2009 |
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 In Bulgaria, politicians and indignant citizens reacted angrily at what they saw as an image that denigrated their fatherland. Members of the Youth Wing of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party, or BSP, marched to the Czech Embassy in Sofia and presented the Czech Ambassador, Martin Klepetko, with a brand new toilet bowl, to indicate that Bulgarians now used European rather than Asian loos. ... more
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