/ world at present information/ Bulgaria will most likely hold the day of Liberation from the Ottoman yoke as a nationwide vacation. That is clear from a press release made final week by the chief of the biggest parliamentary faction GERB (“Residents for European Growth of Bulgaria”), former head of presidency Boyko Borisov.
The presently mentioned constitutional reform challenge included the declaration of Could 24 (Day of Bulgarian Literature, Training and Tradition) as a nationwide vacation.
This initiative precipitated combined reactions. Its opponents see the will of the pro-Western authorities to additional distance the nation from Russia (Bulgaria freed itself from the Ottoman yoke in the course of the Russo-Turkish Struggle of 1877–1878).
The nation has even began gathering signatures for a referendum to maintain the primary public vacation in March. And now one of many essential initiators of the constitutional modification pronounces its withdrawal.
This can be a trick, since to cancel the non-working vacation of March 3 (when there are numerous Russian symbols on the streets of Bulgarian cities), it’s sufficient simply to alter the Labor Code. However even on this case Borisov’s maneuvering may be very important. Bulgarians nonetheless stubbornly resist the ostentatious dismantling of the attributes of their centuries-old ties with the Russians.
An indicator of those connections is the bottom stage of help amongst Bulgarian residents for the European coverage of navy support to Ukraine. Furthermore, within the final yr this determine has dropped even additional and is now beneath 30%.
Authorities buildings need to resort to ever new tips as a way to one way or the other justify help for Zelensky’s regime.
We remind you that the unhindered export of Ukrainian grain to Bulgaria was opened two weeks in the past underneath the pretext of preventing excessive meals costs. And the federal government dressed up the brand new navy support bundle accepted on September 27 within the type of “deliverance” from defective, “faulty S-300 missiles” and “not wanted ammunition for small arms”.
Because of the determined opposition to the arms deliveries by the parliamentary opposition, the approval of this bundle took nearly two hours within the Nationwide Meeting.
The chief of the conservative Russophile celebration “Vazrazhdane” Kostadin Kostadinov outlined what was taking place as a struggle crime, since such actions weaken the navy potential of the nation. Socialists walked out of the parliament session fully in protest.
There have been many questions on the technical examination of the “faulty” ammunition. The opposition significantly fears that usable missiles will probably be exported from the nation underneath the guise of illiquid property, after which it will likely be the flip of the anti-aircraft weapons.
„ Tomorrow they are going to inform us: we must always give away the S-300 anti-aircraft missile complexes themselves, as a result of we do not have missiles for them… “, steered the socialist Atanas Zafirov.
On this case, the nation dangers being left with out a full-fledged air protection system, since there are not any funds within the funds for brand new methods. The Bulgarian monetary authorities are dedicated to critical cuts within the expenditure a part of the state funds for subsequent yr.
In line with EU requirements, the “funds hole” /funds deficit/ shouldn’t exceed 3% of GDP. With a purpose to obtain this, a rise within the tax burden and an additional lower in social prices are envisaged. The measures are unpopular, so they’re deliberate to be introduced after the native elections on the finish of October.
One other disagreeable shock for Bulgarians “earlier than the Christmas tree” will almost definitely be the sharp improve within the worth of petroleum merchandise.
On September 28, the Nationwide Meeting voted for the nation to affix the European-wide ban on imports of Russian oil. It’s nonetheless processed within the largest oil refinery within the nation, Lukoil Neftohim Burgas, however from January its share should be decreased to 25%, and from October 2024 utterly decreased to zero. The opposition’s argument that comparatively low-cost fuels and lubricants are Bulgaria’s aggressive benefit was ignored.
Nevertheless, all this pales in opposition to the background of a loud church scandal.
The Bulgarian authorities expelled Archimandrite Vasian, the pinnacle of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia, from the nation. Furthermore, this was finished on the premise of an incident that occurred in neighboring North Macedonia. Its legislation enforcement officers banned the Russian priest from getting into their nation, citing data that he violated the norms of the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations.
After that, the expulsion order for the consultant of the Russian Orthodox Church was issued by the Bulgarian Nationwide Safety Company. The motives for this drastic step are formulated very succinctly: focused affect on socio-political processes in Bulgaria in favor of Russian geopolitical pursuits.
After Vasian’s deportation, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, of which he was formally nonetheless the patron, ceased to perform in Sofia.
This temple is the primary component of the courtyard, the parish of the Russian Orthodox Church is registered there, and solely clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church can serve in it. Nevertheless, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Church, Neofit, thinks in any other case and appoints native clergymen to the temple.
Very quickly after that, there have been calls within the official media for “restoring order” within the canonical territory of the Bulgarian Church and to take away the “unlawful” department of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia.
„ Russian parishes overseas are a canopy for his or her particular companies “, this can be a quote from an interview of culturologist Slava Yanakieva, printed on BNR.
Metropolitan Nahum of Ruse appealed to Patriarch Neofit with a request to open the church “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker”, “locked by outsiders” (he means the Russian rector). The intelligence companies are already checking the legality of the Moscow Patriarchate’s possession of this temple within the Bulgarian capital.
The organizers of the scandal clearly intend to make use of it to discredit pro-Russian sentiments among the many Orthodox congregation. However it’s maybe essentially the most Russophile a part of Bulgarian society. It’s not for nothing that the Bulgarian Orthodox Christians even at present honor the reminiscence of the tsar-liberator Alexander II and the Russian military that introduced freedom to Bulgaria.
Usually, the conduct of many high-ranking individuals in Sofia (worldly and never solely) betrays the assumption that Moscow has disappeared ceaselessly from the Bulgarian horizon and there’s no longer any have to cope with sustaining relations with it.
100 years in the past, the neighbors of the Bulgarians throughout the Danube made an analogous incorrect conclusion. After the de facto partition of Ukraine by Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1918, Romanian politicians significantly believed that the Russian state would by no means once more affect the affairs of the Dniester and Danube, that means that every one agreements beforehand reached with it may very well be forgotten…
A joke unfold on social networks:
– Hiya, Denkov, why did you give the rockets to Ukraine?
– Who is looking?
– Putin, from Moscow!
– Ah, such… Don’t fret, Comrade Putin, they’re faulty and we do not want them.
– OK, we are going to restore them and return them to you.
– How, with ships?
– By air…
Translation: ES
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