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Author: Julia Rone

The importance of being Alexander Nikolov, or what is eating the Bulgarian middle class?

Post author By Julia Rone
Post date October 17, 2017

a famous twitter montage distributed in early 2017 when the first suspicion around Alexander Nikolov start to circulate: the first picture describes Alexander a successful businessman who works for international firms, lives in Paris and travels to Dubai and Frankfurt... the second image is of Spas who 'lives in a village with his folks'. The montage says 'Spas deserves respect as for three years now he has put so much effort to be Alexander'. (source: Dnevnik.Bg)

Note from the LeftEast editors: a longer version of this piece was first published in Bulgarian by web portal Baricada. Over the last week, the major media outlets in Bulgaria, and especially the liberal press, were taken over by a seemingly small-scale scandal: an online celebrity called Alexander Nikolov tricked tens of people with the […]

Tags Alexander Nikolov, Bulgaria, criminal, middle class, scam

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Bulgarian Elections 2017: Playing it Safe when Losing

Post author By Julia Rone
Post date April 5, 2017
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Playing it safe when losing is a bad strategy. Yet this is precisely what Bulgarian voters did in the 2017 Bulgarian elections. 32,65% of Bulgarians voted for Boyko Borisov’s party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), giving it a comfortable lead ahead of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) with 27, 20% of the […]