A coronavirus is haunting Bulgarian journalism. The coronavirus of Prokopiev's mainstream media machine. Just like Covid-19, it attacks underhandedly and relentlessly and spreads hotbeds of contagion. However, in contrast to the coronavirus, it has not been spreading for just several months, but for two decades now, in a bid to hit real journalism and put on artificial respiration the freedom of speech in Bulgaria.

State Security agent Sasho has lost control. Iliyan Vassilev proved to be nothing but an expensive call girl. He behaves as if he is strolling along the streets of Bangkok handing out his business cards to clients, in our case these are the indicted oligarchs to whom he renders media services and offers Facebook massages with some extras.

Hristo Ivanov, the strawman leader of a lab-engineered political party put in place by Prokopiev’s empire, is tireless in spewing nonsense. He has the looks of an early 1980s comedian and just as hilarious statements. Hristo is like the sad clown of Circus “Oligarchy”.

Despicable, cynical and arrogant. Even such strong words fail to describe the shamelessness of Ognyan Stefanov, former political officer of the Bulgarian Armed Forces and long-time informer of the communist State Security. As always, this disgraceful representative of Bulgarian journalism did not find the courage to sign his real name under the latest blasphemy he posted on the website Frognews.

The eminent State Security agent Ilian Vassilev who is a part of the mainstream run by indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev has lamented for the collection of Vasil Bozhkov and served him to the fullest just like a loyal minion. All facts show that fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev who syphoned off CorpBank has downsized the tranches he used to send to the net of State Security agents.

After the shadowy clique's pawns spread over the week their poorly concocted fake news items about lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski, using the indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev's mainstream media machine, former PM Ivan Kostov, aka the Commander of Bulgaria's murky transition to democracy, took matters into his own hands. On Friday, he activated the “heavy hitters” - the “lab technicians” from his think tank with the New Bulgarian University (NBU).

Petar Cholakov, who is Ivo Prokopiev’s guy in the Bulgarian desk of Deutsche Welle, has one job: to voice the oligarch’s thoughts. The master of the mainstream media machine in Bulgaria, Prokopiev has been trying to escape the clutches of the judicial system for years. To that end, former PM Ivan Kostov’s favourite “investor” during the privatisation process uses all sorts of dirty and despicable machinations. Mostly, he tries to pull wool over people’s eyes by using his giant media empire to produce fake news as well as cheap scripts to exert influence on the executive and judicial branches of power.

What is the weather outside? Look out of your window. And now visit the website of Mediapool and see what is written there. It would be no wonder if you find out that deep snow covers Bulgaria. One can expect anything of Stoyana Georgieva, the Godmother of fake news.

The man of the communist State Security, former diplomat and taskforce agent for all kinds of dirty commissions, Ilian Vassilev, aka agent Sasho or agent Dragan, has again released a “hot” statement into the public space.

Do you remember The Matrix, the hit film that at the turn of the 21st century showed a dystopian world in which people can be held captives? The first installment in the series came out in 1999 – by that year, former PM Ivan Kostov, the godfather of Bulgaria’s murky privatisation process, had already created his first oligarchs. In the real world, he had laid the foundations of a parallel state that would become his mechanism of controlling the behind-the-scenes clique for years to come. And that has continued to this day even though lack of voter support got him out of politics nearly two decades ago.