/ world today news/ While the scandals were going on in the National Assembly, about the Electoral Code, about the changes in the judicial system, about the salaries and the number of deputies, while every day we listened to the bleak revelations of the resigned Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, or wondered about the return of Bobby Mihailov at the headquarters of the Football Union, somehow, by the way, as if nothing had happened, is silent, suspiciously silent in our public space about the new espionage scandal caused by the Bulgarian authorities against Russia.
The government and personally the chief prosecutor of the republic, Ivan Geshev, recently accused the Russian military intelligence of setting fire to several military warehouses in Bulgaria, which, according to the reported information, are owned by the arms dealer Emiliyan Gebrev, of his company “Emko”.
Thus, Bulgaria was the first among the EU countries to “stand in solidarity” with the Czech Republic, which blamed the Russians for the explosions – in 1914 – at an ammunition warehouse near Zlin and expelled 18 Russian spy diplomats from the country.
The Czech prime minister, responsible for taking these shockingly drastic punitive measures, said that the Czech investigative authorities are now at the “suspicion” stage, a coincidence of events that happened in the same year 2014, photos of Russians in which the Czech rulers have doubted, without providing evidence (apart from the version that two of the suspects were in Britain at the time of the attempt to kill the Russian spy-fugitive Skripal and his daughter: here again accusations unsupported by evidence; again justification that the investigative materials were still a state secret).
It is significant that the statements of the two Czech presidents – one current, the other former – that until recently the Czech counter-intelligence did not have a “Russian trace” and that it is dangerous for democracy to accuse and punish people did not help the restoration of judicial justice and states only on suspicion: “You are suspected, therefore you are guilty!” As a response to these reasonable arguments, the Czech Russophobes organized a ten-thousand-strong protest in the center of Prague against the two Czech presidents, declaring them “national traitors”.
Thus it was reaffirmed:
First, that the Czech espionage scandal is the first major provocative act of the White House and of President Biden during his election victory, who declared the Russian Federation as the No. 1 enemy of the United States.
Second, it has been proven that the political elite of the EU is extremely dependent on Washington, that it is ready to violate any rules of international behavior, any cases of jurisprudence, of international law, of ethics, on orders from across the ocean.
Thirdly, it became abundantly clear: the Czech Republic, which used to enjoy the authority of a relatively sovereign state, has in recent years lost this sovereignty, becoming a mere satellite, a puppet of American interests in Europe.
Fourth, the Bulgarian government and prosecutor’s office hastened to keep up with the Czech Republic in its role as an even more diligent puppet satellite. According to the Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov, we have been jealous of the Czech Republic, which has allowed itself to claim that it is a bigger “slayer” than Bulgaria (I present the essence of what the minister said).
Apparently, this is a major global action directed by the USA and aimed at setting up and isolating European countries from any contacts with the Russian Federation.
Fifth, it can be seen that the USA is able to so brutally impose its aggressive anti-Russian policy only or mainly in the countries of Eastern Europe! Western Europe reacts far more cautiously to American political and military dictates, making desperate efforts to maintain good relations with Washington without severing ties with Russia.
Sixth, Bulgaria’s current satellite behavior got a relief profile after Bulgaria joined the military anti-Russian “Three Seas” axis.
In my opinion, this accession of Bulgaria to the axis was realized at the end of 2019 during the visit of Prime Minister Borissov to the USA, when our country fully and without appeal was included in the long-standing plan of the Pole Pilsudski for the creation of an anti-Russian militarized bloc of Eastern European countries. A militarized block that would not allow permanent mutually beneficial relations to be established between Germany’s highly developed industry and between Russia with its vast raw material reserves. The new policy (related to our belonging to the “Three Seas”), initiated by Borisov and probably supported by President Trump’s team, was continued by President Radev (this time perhaps coordinated with the ruling Democratic Party).
Seventh, with its participation in one of the most notable provocative operations of the USA, Bulgaria, together with the Czech Republic, has been at the epicenter of world news for ten days now! At least in my lifetime, I don’t remember a case when our country was talked about so much in the world media. There is hardly a foreign minister of a great power who has not already spoken out on the matter.
Eighth, the US Embassy sent congratulations to the Bulgarian authorities for defending the “sovereignty of Bulgaria” against the harmful policy of Russia. Russia reacted unusually harshly to Bulgaria’s behavior, ranking it among the several countries most hostile to Russia. By order of President Putin, a list of countries declared enemies of the Russian Federation is currently being prepared. According to experts, Bulgaria will be on this list. President Putin also promised that this time Russia would respond really harshly to the provocations.
As can be seen, our rulers, in the name of their own survival and interests, brought our country into an extremely difficult and acute conflict with a great power, which is unlikely to be resolved without severe consequences (all-round) for the Bulgarian people. What Tsar Boris did not allow himself to do during the Second World War, the current authorities have done.
Ninth, in connection with the officially advertised version (in the spirit of the Cold War) about massive Russian espionage in our country, the Russians, and not only them, ask a number of questions that the prime minister, the government, the chief prosecutor, DANS should answer.
Here are some of those questions:
Why in our country, and on what grounds, a private person and a private company, that of Emilian Gebrev, carries out a similar type of arms trade? And should the Bulgarian authorities and Gebrev bear the corresponding responsibility for this act? What is the evidence anyway that the Russian military intelligence was a participant in the burning of the warehouses and in the sabotage of the Kazanlak military plant? Did the Bulgarian government know that after 2014, Bulgarian weapons were sold to Ukraine and Georgia, with which Russian citizens and soldiers were shot? Is this act a crime?
Did all the fires follow the logic: fire – explosion, as officially claimed? Did Gebrev possess landmines that had to be destroyed according to international agreements? What are Russian citizens Denis Sergeev, Yegor Gordienko and Sergey Lyutenko, etc., etc. accused of? Can we believe the Czech Prime Minister that there was a channel for the transfer of weapons from the Czech Republic to Bulgaria (and from there to countries currently at war)? The Bulgarian investigative authorities should investigate the credibility of this announcement made by the prime minister of a friendly country. And if it is true, to take action, according to the criminal code and the norms of international law!
I have raised this problem with the next anti-Russian espionage scandals in Bulgaria more than once, including in world today news.
I took the liberty of analyzing five Russian diplomats expelled from Bulgaria for espionage in 2020.
What does it turn out to be?
Until now, only the accusations of the prosecutor’s office are publicly known, otherwise, after that I am not aware of accusations and legal cases being brought against the Bulgarian spy helpers/executors. And no one cares whether the truth here does not have a double bottom! If they had at least informed us (so much time has passed!) of punitive measures taken against that Bulgarian high-ranking civil servant-spy, because of whom one or two Russian diplomats were recalled from our country? At least they would have been so good as to inform us of the names of those Bulgarian spies who revealed the secrets (!) of our election process, an act that caused a Russian diplomat to “burn” again.
A few interesting details.
According to the press, deputies from “Democratic Bulgaria” have recently submitted a question to Boyko Borisov, are foreign forces involved in the execution of the explosions in the weapons depots in our country? After receiving this question, the prime minister activated the mechanisms of “forcing” the spy affair (in my opinion, also because of the ambition to show that he is a more orthodox Americanophile than our Sorosoid democrats).
I emphasize this fact also because the number of Russophobic politicians has increased dangerously in the new parliament. Russophobic MPs have already criticized Boyko Borisov from the parliamentary rostrum for the construction of the Balkan Stream and the Belene NPP, accusing him of being an agent of the Kremlin. Total wildness! But an extremely dangerous wildness that will yet transform the Bulgarian citizens into the rhinoceroses of the absurdist Ionescu. By the way, this prospect for us Bulgarians is not encouraging at all!
Personally, as a left-thinking Bulgarian, I was most hurt that the leaders of the BSP and the party’s chairman, Kornelia Ninova, preferred to play the part of Mizhiturki, instead of making declarations in their own name, on behalf of the party and the parliament, in order to protect the truth at a high level voice; in order to warn the population about the new situation that brings our fatherland to the brink!
What was wanted of them?
Not a blind defense of the Russians (if they are guilty, let them pay!), but an inquiry, asking the simple question, what is the evidence on the espionage affair, and can judgments and diplomats be expelled only on suspicion!? If it can, then why did we “swallow the frogs” of our democratic-criminal transition?
I know that Ninova is not the only one responsible for the reformation of the BSP into an obedient Euro-Atlantic party, whose leadership pursues a foreign policy course precisely in this direction. And yet, there are times when silence, fear, self-interest and indifference are more abhorrent than a publicly declared position.
A.P. Chekhov is the author of a story about a boy from the deaf Russian countryside who commits a hideous act, which is then described reproachfully in the local newspaper. The boy, instead of being ashamed, is overjoyed: “I got into the newspaper!” And we, some with pride, some with sorrow, some just like that, among the rest, repeat and will repeat to ourselves, in connection with yet another anti-Russian spy odyssey, the words of Chekhov’s character…
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