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.
Enlightening the Unenlightened
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Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
By Petya Sabinova
On the day when Bulgaria's President gathers youngsters from various organizations in a forum dedicated on preserving what's Bulgarian, a colleague came to work fuming because of what she saw on the bus the previous evening.
She told the story of some teenage Levski fans who yelled, sang and banged on the bus windows, and did so even harder when told to behave themselves. "I can bang and break and scream all I want," one claimed hitting the window over and over again, "it's the state's after all." All of a sudden the window did break and several men jumped up from their seats and literally threw the insolent youngster out on the street at the next stop. "It's not the state's," a pensioner angrily said, "I have worked all my life for the state to have that bus."
In a similar case several days ago a young urchin, on a trip to the zoo with his grandma, broke the toad's cage right in front of my eyes, banging on the side so the poor lazy animal inside would move. The grandma just smacked him over the side of head and continued to look around as if nothing had happened.
On Enlighteners' Day Parvanov is meeting with members of all sorts of youth committees and they mull how to help "Preserve What's Bulgarian." Great idea, but there is no use of preaching to the choir. Kids who travel hundreds of kilometres to attend such a forum are not really the ones that need to be told they have to take care of their country's heritage. The ones that bang and break and get away with it because "it's the state's", well now, THEY definitely need a lesson or two.
On the day when Bulgaria's President gathers youngsters from various organizations in a forum dedicated on preserving what's Bulgarian, a colleague came to work fuming because of what she saw on the bus the previous evening.
She told the story of some teenage Levski fans who yelled, sang and banged on the bus windows, and did so even harder when told to behave themselves. "I can bang and break and scream all I want," one claimed hitting the window over and over again, "it's the state's after all." All of a sudden the window did break and several men jumped up from their seats and literally threw the insolent youngster out on the street at the next stop. "It's not the state's," a pensioner angrily said, "I have worked all my life for the state to have that bus."
In a similar case several days ago a young urchin, on a trip to the zoo with his grandma, broke the toad's cage right in front of my eyes, banging on the side so the poor lazy animal inside would move. The grandma just smacked him over the side of head and continued to look around as if nothing had happened.
On Enlighteners' Day Parvanov is meeting with members of all sorts of youth committees and they mull how to help "Preserve What's Bulgarian." Great idea, but there is no use of preaching to the choir. Kids who travel hundreds of kilometres to attend such a forum are not really the ones that need to be told they have to take care of their country's heritage. The ones that bang and break and get away with it because "it's the state's", well now, THEY definitely need a lesson or two.
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