The news website Frognews, sponsored by fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev, is the epitome of a cesspool, a sewer draining all kinds of slime. Any politician who cannot catch on with a party and any informer of the former State Security is welcome to spill his guts there. There is only one condition – to libel lawmaker from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Delyan Peevski, no matter what, all the while pretending to fight against those in power. Which does not make much sense since Peevski is an MP from an opposition party.

The sinister gambling tzar with 18 felony charges Vasil Bozhkov, aka El Chapo, has put a hit on Monitor News Agency as well. The unscrupulous fugitive currently being investigated for ordering multiple murders, committed a vicious attack on free speech in an attempt to shut up the media outlet’s journalists because of their series of revelations about the way he is using the hundreds of millions he defrauded the state out of to finance a brutal attempt at instigating a riot in the country so he can undermine the public institutions and get off scot-free instead of suffering retribution for his crimes.

Who turned the country into a sieve?

Who is stealing directly from our pockets through electricity and natural gas bills that have been artificially pumped up for decades?

Who turned our hospitals into hostages of a pharmaceutical giant, sending the healthcare system into decay?

An on-air blunder by a female bTV journalist has exposed the way the coverage of protests is being manipulated by a national TV network that has come to be known as Bozhkov TV because of its shameful dependencies on the fugitive gambling tzar Vasil Bozhkov, who is hiding in Dubai after getting slapped with 18 felony charges.

There are no ministers under the control of Peevski, there is a prime minister. That flabbergasting nonsense, part of the talking points of the oligarchy, was uttered by Vladislav Panev, a Sofia municipal councilor and an old associate of Ivo Prokopiev.

Do you know how billions can disappear overnight and a state can wake up with skyrocketing hyperinflation? Perhaps not, but you can always fill in the blanks by questioning former vice-PM and minister of economic development in Videnov’s infamous cabinet Rumen Gechev, who has risen from the ashes of the 1990s bank collapses after socialist leader Kornelia Ninova personally installed him as BSP lawmaker and vice-chair of the budgetary commission at the current National Assembly. 

There are innumerable sayings around the world about all sorts of things, but some version of one in particular can be found in every European country, across the pond too. That is no coincidence. You all know it – while the cat is away, the mice will play. In that same spirit, while the new CEO of the US Agency for Global Media Michael Pack is trying to steer the Congress-funded publications, including Radio Free Europe, back to observing ethical norms and their originally intended roles, a segment of the personnel of those same media outlets is using the temporary limbo created by the reshuffling at the top (See here) to continue their proverbial mice play.

With all due respect to the Englishmen, but they are wrong when they say there is no such thing as eternal enemies. The Bulgarian oligarchy may change up the targets it is bombarding with lies and disinformation through a mainstream media machine whose publications are funded either openly or under the table by the oligarchy and single out victims for daring to disturb its peace of mind, but the list of enemies features one constant – lawmaker from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Delyan Peevski.

Stand-up comedy undoubtedly missed out on huge talents in the latest duo of political show business – Hristo Ivanov and Ivo Mirchev. Prokopiev’s two hangers-on from the indicted oligarch’s GMO political party Yes, Bulgaria have been touring the country for a month now, pulling double duty – reminding the public of their own existence and that of their party, which is bogged down in the range of statistical error when it comes to voter support; and simultaneously serving their sponsor by spouting lies and doing all sorts of circus tricks against his enemies.

The gambling tzar facing 18 felony charges Vasil Bozhkov has ordered his pawns from the Poisonous Trio to arrange it so the country is paralised for his birthday on Wednesday. The Bulgarian El Chapo, who defrauded the state coffers out of BGN 700m and subsequently fled to Dubai only to launch from there a plan to undermine the country’s institutions so he can avoid retribution for his crimes, has issued an order for all groups of protesters paid by him to gather for a national rally on 29 July.