A textbook KGB-style operation has been launched by the indicted oligarch-publishers and their mentor former PM Ivan Kostov. This was prompted by the charges that the Prosecutor’s Office brought up against the former head of the Military Information agency (editor’s note – the military intelligence) Gen. Plamen Angelov and the incumbent Gen. Svetoslav Daskalov a week ago for issuing 504 approvals for the highest-level access to NATO and EU classified information in violation of the law.

The wife of judge №1 in the country Lozan Panov has a criminal record with the police. This is a fact of reality substantiated by an official document provided by the Ministry of Interior. As it turns out, the file on the case has not been saved, which destroys any chance of finding out what exactly Elisaveta Panova did 15 years ago. However, the mention of her name in a 2004 report of a suspected crime as a perpetrator of an act of hooliganism – resisting authorities, a misdemeanor under Art. 325, Par. 2 of the Penal Code – is still in the database.

Only 21 kilometres away from the centre of Sofia, at the southern foothills of Western Stara Planina (Balkan Mountains) stands the Seslavtsi Monastery of St Nicholas Mirlikiiski, famous for its frescoes from the 17th century which are a true art treasure. The legend has it that the monastery was founded during the time of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom by a local boyar named Seslav. The remnants of his fortress may still be seen near the monastery.

Bulgaria's Council of Ministers has mandated the Minister of Defence to sign four contracts for the purchase of eight multi-role F-16 Block 70 fighter aircraft, Deputy Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov, who heads the interdepartmental working group, said on Wednesday. The package price for the aircraft, ammunition, equipment and pilot training is $1.25bn. The US Congress can cover $60m of this price, Zapryanov added.

Ognyan Stefanov, aka agent Academician of the former State Security, and attorney Lazar Karadaliev, who is on trial for money laundering, received instructions from Tsvetan Vassilev, who fled to Serbia after engineering the collapse of CorpBank, via mobile phone. This was revealed by Biser Lazov, the lead witness in the case stemming from the embezzlement of billions from the lender by the fugitive banker, during a hearing in the Specialised Criminal Court.

Oligarch Ivo Prokopiev and his mentor, former PM Ivan Kostov, are pulling the strings of the court system through their puppet judge Lozan Panov. This much was revealed by the shameful decision of an oligarchy-controlled court controlled, which washed clean the scandalous past of Elisaveta Panova. The ruling of the Sofia City Court effectively puts an end to the illusion of rule of law in Bulgaria with the sole purpose of serving the behind-the-scene clique’s interests.

Elisaveta Panova, wife of the head of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) Lozan Panov, has won a lawsuit against Telegraph Media, as a result of which the company will have to pay her BGN 30,000 in compensation for “publishing offensive and slandering allegations”. In addition, Delyan Peevski will have to cover BGN 2,600 in legal fees as the losing side, gloats the website Mediapool, owned by former PM Ivan Kostov’s one-time spokesperson Stoyana Georgieva.

The election of a new director of the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) did not meet the high requirements of Democratic Bulgaria party. Already before the name of the winner in the race was announced all twenty odd of the party activists were marshalled as a militant vanguard.

Beglik Tash, one of the largest Thracian sanctuaries in the Balkans, is located in a spacious clearing of a dense forest, mere six kilometres to the north of popular seaside resort Primorsko. The complex remained unknown to scientists until 2003 as it fell within the boundaries of a communist-era hunting residence named Perla. However, its exploration over the recent decade has shed light on the mystical spiritual and religious life of the Thracians.

The journalists from the website Frognews roam the farmers’ markets with their ear to the ground. Whatever they hear about Delyan Peevski goes up on their website immediately. On 3 July, the snooping hounds of Ognyan Stefanov, aka agent Academician of the former State Security, had an epiphany. Truthfully, it was a text that they received with orders to publish it and attach several links to it.