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THE STARS RISE AFTER MIDNIGHT

VILNIUS, February 04- Everything was calm when I left for Vilnius. Even suspiciously calm. It was already known that there was a National Salvation Committee. However, no one knew who the members were. And to this day, no one knows. ... »

LIFE IN THE "AQUARIUM"

VILNIUS, February 11- “Raimondas, I don't have tickets. Let's go on foot," I told my new acquaintance, without blinking, as if I were on near the ‘Russian monument’ in Sofia and had to go to the Pliska Hotel, just ... »

WHEN THE JOURNALIST CRIES

VILNIUS, February 18 - There is one detail that I now avoid in the cozy Warsaw apartment, without any danger from the tank. This is the fact that from the first moments I spent in Vilnius, I cried. An unusual ... »


Someone, somewhere, sometime…

In the nineties, there was no such things, but there were plenty of other absurd things. Now, however, what is happening with the Bulgarian media - television and radio channels, and recently even newspapers, is not only absurd, but also ... »





The “Two and two hundred” …

Well, that's clear. After 33 years of painful transition, change and replacement of values, acrobatic political variations, in the end the truth shined - in Bulgaria we really know how to survive with both “two” and “two hundred”. In other ... »

In the photo: Maxim Behar and Mikhail Gorbachev, Sofia, Sheraton Hotel, May 2002

Gorby's Grip…

No one in the world, not even the best Soviet experts, expected a politician who would change the world in just a few days. … It was a little bit after midnight. I was already falling asleep after a glass ... »

The winners and the whiners

It so happened that we divided ourselves into exactly these two categories. And there are no others. This is the not so sad truth about our modern life. The successful ones are standing in their offices, and now more and ... »

The University for Ministers…

I am more than convinced that the generation in power must be totally changed. In politics, there must be new people, with new ideas, with an absolutely new approach and no "memory" of the decades of vulgar language, insults, aggression, ... »

Care-taking, Forever

We are already sick of caretaker governments. You walk along “Vitoshka” Street in Sofia and every second person you meet turns out to be a former minister. And sometimes a present one. But that's not the drama. Long live the ... »

Don't Touch the State Property!

I was just starting my business a long (but not that long) time ago, and I had only a small Trabant car, my last purchase from the Socialism times after a long and careful saving. I was slowly gaining momentum ... »