How many Times were Diplomatic Relations between Russia and Bulgaria Severed
If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
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By Nevena Prokopieva
If a Roma family in Bulgaria has not paid its electricity bill for the last few months, they still will have the lights on. If a Bulgarian is only two days late to pay his bill, he'd better have some candles at hand. Otherwise he will have to spend the evening in the darkness of discrimination.
Why such an obvious case of injustice is a part of every-day life in a country en route to the EU? Simply because Bulgarian politicians see in the Roma minority a means to secure them ascending the parliament's rostrum once more after the next elections.
It is not uncommon to see Bulgarians taking the representatives of Roma minority and the ethnic Turks living in the country as one - one minority. And that's nothing but wrong. That was the case with the representatives of the nationalist party Ataka (Attack) who booed in the Black Sea city of Varna President Parvanov. A man whom they take for a collaborator, in friendly terms with their arch enemy - the Turks-dominated Movement of Rights and Freedoms.
Strange as it may sound, every single day the government feeds up ethnic tension in our small country. That is why we should not be angry with the Romas themselves, but with the politicians who are supposed to stand up for the rights of all Bulgarian citizens.
The EU has provided Bulgaria with many grants for Roma integration, but Brussels should know well enough that the country has to cope with its every-day problems first. Just as it did.
If a Roma family in Bulgaria has not paid its electricity bill for the last few months, they still will have the lights on. If a Bulgarian is only two days late to pay his bill, he'd better have some candles at hand. Otherwise he will have to spend the evening in the darkness of discrimination.
Why such an obvious case of injustice is a part of every-day life in a country en route to the EU? Simply because Bulgarian politicians see in the Roma minority a means to secure them ascending the parliament's rostrum once more after the next elections.
It is not uncommon to see Bulgarians taking the representatives of Roma minority and the ethnic Turks living in the country as one - one minority. And that's nothing but wrong. That was the case with the representatives of the nationalist party Ataka (Attack) who booed in the Black Sea city of Varna President Parvanov. A man whom they take for a collaborator, in friendly terms with their arch enemy - the Turks-dominated Movement of Rights and Freedoms.
Strange as it may sound, every single day the government feeds up ethnic tension in our small country. That is why we should not be angry with the Romas themselves, but with the politicians who are supposed to stand up for the rights of all Bulgarian citizens.
The EU has provided Bulgaria with many grants for Roma integration, but Brussels should know well enough that the country has to cope with its every-day problems first. Just as it did.
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