The first part of the three-part vision for the future of the country that is the National Strategic Document project, which President Rumen Radev presented yesterday, is nothing more than muscle flexing.

President Rumen Radev has once again taken shots at the government using the talking points of the behind-the-scenes clique. “We need to have a clear picture of the condition in which our country finds itself and then we will be able to draw up realistic strategies and plans for the future,” Radev said during the presentation of the National Strategic Document project.

The standards of even the most credible publications can come crashing down when it comes to the Bulgarian reality and its fake-news-steered public consciousness. Examples abound. The latest, but surely not last, one comes courtesy of the online publication of Der Standard.

Some (well-known) oligarchs have been skillfully exploiting the ongoing protests as a lifejacket at sea. They have been funding protesters (by Vasil Bozhkov’s own admission) or opting for an easier and cheaper option – using Prokopiev’s mainstream media machine to run their own talking points, their distorted version of events, their defensive theses.

Just a day after liar №1 in the country Hristo Ivanov, aka Pinocchio, a battering ram for the oligarchy and the Capital circle, turned up in the Rosenets area and unloaded a pack of lies, former PM Ivan Kostov put the behind-the-scenes clique’s B team in the game. Gen. Atanas Atanasov, who serves as something of an avatar for the so-called Commander, made an appearance on bTV, the network providing coverage favourable to the anti-government protests, to put on the latest Capital circus show.

Bloodthirsty oligarch Vasil Bozhkov finally admitted to supporting President Rumen Radev; Yes, Bulgaria, the so-called Poisonous Trio and Maya Manolova, who are all trying to topple the government by inciting riots.

Socialist functionary Rumen Ovcharov, who was recently convicted of financial crimes, appeared on bTV, which has become known as Bozhkov TV because of its ties to Vasil Bozhkov (the Bulgarian El Chapo), to defend his protégé Kornelia Ninova, who served as his deputy minister in the Sergey Stanishev cabinet.  

Do you know what distinguishes sociology from manipulation? The questions. Just ask any student specialising in this field of science, which is supposed to study public sentiment. “Supposed to” are the operative words here because in Bulgaria sociology, and not only, has long morphed from science into an instrument for manipulating said public sentiment.

A new hackers’ attack crashed Monitor website for several hours this morning. It is another one in a series of powerful hits, which have begun on Thursday night, when our online version fell victim to an unscrupulous attack on freedom of speech, accompanied by threats, bloody messages and photos of the banker Emil Kyulev, who was brutally shot dead in 2005 (see here).

The ominous hackers’ attack on Monitor News Agency on Thursday night was referred by Telegraph Media to all the EU institutions and EU commissioners who are responsible for the rule of law and digitalisation. The online edition then fell  victim to an unscrupulous attack on freedom of speech, what the attack involving bloody messages and threats was, including threats for murder. It was apparently ordered by the sinister gambling boss with 18 charges Vasil Bozhkov, called El Chapo (see here).