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Bulgaria: Barricade of Marble
“Have you heard about events in Sofia? - said Maryan, a computer, from our district center Sandanski. “Why doesn't your magazine write about this?” We write.
In Sofia, the demonstrators who blocked the national assembly on July 23 were scattered by the police, which once again warmed up protest sentiments. “It's a shame for the country! Where is human rights! So violated! " - It sounds through all the world channels from the lips of those who went outside and not leaving it.
In the capital of Bulgaria, the police dispersed citizens who blocked the exit from the parliament
The confrontation between official politics and the street has been going on for a long time, as a result of its first fights, early elections were only recently passed, in which the pro -Western party of the coat of arms once again won, the left won nothing from the protests caused by raising tariffs (soon canceled). And then the right-wingers appointed a media magnate with an ambiguous reputation as the head of the special services, the street was again indignant, the authorities again went to meet her-they removed the man on the third day. And again, this did not help-since then the protests have been going through the 42nd day throughout Bulgaria, an extra-parliamentary opposition, just like somewhere in the near the Middle East, requires a change in the system of power. She wants everything to be honest. Without the mafia. This is the most common word in Bulgaria, explaining both poverty and unemployment.
“Is there a mafia in Russia? - asks Boris in the Museum "Samuilov Fortress." - If you go to work, can I earn a thousand dollars? " They go from these places, mainly to Greece, to which - the local mountain of Belasitsa to exceed. And in Greece, for some reason, work is for visitors, although their workers are continuously protesting and demand that they leave numerous benefits untouched. Maybe that's why the visitors are lucky. But in Bulgaria, the southern neighbor is drawn rich, assertive and strong, as in Greece itself - Germany or England. Greek banks and shops are noticeable here in the area of southwestern Bulgaria. And now, the Greek company is rebuilding the European highway E-79 Sofia-Afina, passing through Sandansky.
And on the main square of our village, flat, 7 kilometers from this highway and 15 from Sandanski, the dump truck dumped cubes of five marble. Barricade. The obstacle to forest trucks of another Greek company, which carry pine and beech logs from the mountains of Pirin, surrounding the village, “from the Balkans”, as they say in the village. The barricade appeared yesterday, the day after the high -profile Sophia events, but it would seem that it would not seem to be directly connected with them.
Under the area, the main water supply system passes, paving stones bending, not designed for the severity of the timber trucks that appeared here recently, the pipes burst. The village kmet (elected headman, now it is kmetess) does not have time to find money for the repair of pipes. Recently, with its support on the square, signatures were collected for the ban on the timber trucks to drive through the village. It did not help. Now there is a barricade, sparkling with a raffin-blue fracture of blocks brought from the marble quarry, its radiant vein is visible from the road. It also did not completely help: the timber trucks still pass through the village, however, bypassing the long -suffering pavers. They rise to it from the highway along the updated asphalt of the road, in a few days laid down by the efforts of the same kmetess.
And in Sofia, after the day before yesterday, deputies and government members interrupted the routine work to discuss with Protestants how to live on. New resignations and changes are coming. The abbreviation of the coat of arms means a party proposing a European development path for Bulgaria. This path involves not only EU membership and the desire for Schengen, not only observing honest laws and social partnerships, but also the ability to work as in England or Germany, and protect their rights - as in Greece or Spain (however, in the north of Europe they also do not forget about it).
If anyone does not want this, he can go to Russia. To earn. It will be possible to earn a thousand dollars in Moscow. But prices bite, Boris will have little to send the family to Sandanski. Yes, and the selected kmmet will not protect him there. And if Boris decides to protest ... Dissatisfied with the “mafia” ...
Photo: AFP