Prominent Bulgarian Economy Professor Boteo Tachkov passed away on Sunday after being brutally attacked by a pack of aggressive stray dogs in Sofia last week.

Yordanka Fandakova, who for some reason is still Mayor of the Bulgarian capital, recently promised to decrease the number of stray dogs in the city by 95% by 2016. Even if this promise is fulfilled, there will be most probably other victims of stray dogs by then.

A sufficient number of beaurocrats are paid to deal with the dog issue, there is no reason for us to believe that they cannot do it quickly if want to. In fact, most of them are paid not to deal with the problem – and that practice should be stopped immediately.

The vast majority of Sofianites want all stray dogs to disappear from the streets as soon as possible.

Until then, Sofia has no right to call itself a city, even if our idiotic rulers build a subway to the moon. A place in which people are eaten by wild animals is not a proper city.

According to the latest UN World Happiness Report, Bulgarians are among the ten unhappiest countries in the whole world. I sometimes wonder whether we have a natural tendency to overestimate our misery.

The death of Professor Tachkov shows that Bulgarians have every right to feel that miserable.

It hurts me to say it, but human life has very little value in Bulgaria and this is even more terrifying than poverty.

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