President of the Russophile Movement in Bulgaria charged with espionage is trying to pose as a victim and now stands on the defensive. As anyone could guess he is doing it using fakes targeting lawmaker and publisher of Telegraph Media Delyan Peevski.

Being an agent of State Security and yet having the gal to pose as a fighter against your patron Russia is like kicking your grandmother down the stairs and telling the world that she was only running. You are neither a fighter nor anything but that country’s propaganda servant. The State Security, however, had no scruples, and its agents lack those to this day, continuing to follow the messages of their mentors, only dressed up in a pro-NATO camouflage – you know, just to deceive the enemy.

The Institute for Market Economics, whose chairperson is the product of communist nomenclature Krasen Stanchev, has provided an opinion piece in service of the oligarch Ivo Prokopiev’s interests for the attention of Capital Weekly. Actually, the piece is from three weeks ago, but Prokopiev’s people are only now discovering it.

Steam train puffs and whistles past the fields and whitewashed houses …

That was a refrain of a children’s song accompanying a game in which kids made a line imitating a passenger train. In a similar manner, just like kids, the fosterlings of oligarch Ivo Prokopiev lined up on imaginary rails of corruption to puff out the next in a row editorial review released in the latest issue of the Capital weekly.

A certain journalist of Duma daily shows muscle to demonstrate that he is still alive and kicking. A commendable effort for a newspaper which now publishes more obituaries than opinion pieces. Commendable but not quite. Because there is a spoon of tar in a barrel of honey where the fugitive banker used to thrust his hand every day until the barrel was emptied. And this has made the analysis meaningless and turned into a fake.

The Frognews people are in the whirl of a crazy verbal dance. They spin, twist and distort, desperately trying to justify their salaries in a vociferous tirade against lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski.

It is scary stuff what an inebriated mind can come up with. It is even scarier that the hangover drags for days after that. Have no worries, Dr Popkutuev! Knock a drink back, raise a glass for Peevski and proceed to curse your heart out. You did this two days ago and what happened? You disgorged some hog-wash on the Frognews website entitled by your sober editor “Dictatorship in the Prosecutor’s Office? There is such a thing”. Hic!

The entire plethora of websites gravitating towards the oligarchic circle of friends of Ivo Prokopiev, led by the flagship website Dnevnik, has cleverly engineered a scandal surrounding the Personal Identification Codes (PIC) of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov and lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski. Following their inept and unconvincing gossiping against Peevski, this time around Prokopiev, Tsvetan Vassilev and company played their cards extremely perfidiously.

The website Fakti.bg finally got Prokopiev’s media battering rams on the board after several days of them failing to invent some type of manipulation about lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski. A bit sloppily, the website in question regurgitated the news about the new head of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Plovdiv Yordan Rogachev. In doing the bidding of the tandem of Tsvetan Vassilev and Ivo Prokopiev, it reported out of the blue that “according to Ministry of Interior sources Rogachev is considered to be close with MRF lawmaker from the region Delyan Peevski”.

Do you know the Italian version of the Bulgarian idiom meaning “to talk incessantly about the same thing”? It is literally translated as “still the same soup”. Pauline Adès-Mével, head of Reporters Without Borders’s (RSF) eastern Europe and Balkans desk since 2017, may be French-born but she acts equally Italian and Bulgarian when it comes to those two phrases, as she is regurgitating the same talking points and eating “the same soup” courtesy of the chef of the Capital circle – indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev.