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.
Children of the Revolution
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By Lora Petrova
On 10 November 2006 Bulgaria marks 17 years since the day when Chief Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and Head of State Todor Zhivkov was dismissed from his post.
This happened only a day after thousands of East Berliners passed the Berlin Wall, thus making November 9 the official date of its virtual falling.
Today, as a grown up person, I remembered the time before the Fall and the bright future my parents predicted will come. Bulgaria's common people and politicians called the following years "the peaceful transition" from the totalitarian regime of Zhivkov and "mother" Russia to democracy.
Many years have passed from that day and many things changed. We are no longer forced to queue for hours just to buy bread and yoghurt. But to keep the bad habit Bulgaria started queuing for years to join the elite world and European institutions. We joined the Council of Europe in 1992, became NATO members in 2004 and finally we almost reached the end of the European Union queue.
For Bulgarians born before 1989 and living their youth years on the eve of our EU accession, the Fall and the hundreds of protest and meetings on Sofia' s streets seem like a real revolution.
We all know that revolution eats its children up. But I hope this time the macabre lady Revolution is not hungry and will leave us do our job of building more stable democracy. More stable than the one we have witnessed over these 17 years.
Yet the irony of our revolutionary years is that we will join the EU with a president, member of the successor party of the Bulgarian Communist Party. More ironically, the coalition government rules together with a party of ethnic Turks that suffered a Zhivkov's campaign to Bulgarise their names (which led to their mass exodus from Bulgaria to Turkey in 1985).
On 10 November 2006 Bulgaria marks 17 years since the day when Chief Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and Head of State Todor Zhivkov was dismissed from his post.
This happened only a day after thousands of East Berliners passed the Berlin Wall, thus making November 9 the official date of its virtual falling.
Today, as a grown up person, I remembered the time before the Fall and the bright future my parents predicted will come. Bulgaria's common people and politicians called the following years "the peaceful transition" from the totalitarian regime of Zhivkov and "mother" Russia to democracy.
Many years have passed from that day and many things changed. We are no longer forced to queue for hours just to buy bread and yoghurt. But to keep the bad habit Bulgaria started queuing for years to join the elite world and European institutions. We joined the Council of Europe in 1992, became NATO members in 2004 and finally we almost reached the end of the European Union queue.
For Bulgarians born before 1989 and living their youth years on the eve of our EU accession, the Fall and the hundreds of protest and meetings on Sofia' s streets seem like a real revolution.
We all know that revolution eats its children up. But I hope this time the macabre lady Revolution is not hungry and will leave us do our job of building more stable democracy. More stable than the one we have witnessed over these 17 years.
Yet the irony of our revolutionary years is that we will join the EU with a president, member of the successor party of the Bulgarian Communist Party. More ironically, the coalition government rules together with a party of ethnic Turks that suffered a Zhivkov's campaign to Bulgarise their names (which led to their mass exodus from Bulgaria to Turkey in 1985).
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