What politician Bulgaria needs

Bulgaria needs no Messiah, but a well-cultivated culture. He or she also needs to have this one very powerful ally - the God of the Rule of Law. Only in this combination, a positive outcome is possible, otherwise the political Hercules will end up like his predecessors – oversized by stolen money and banquettes. Are we looking for a mythical creature or is it possible to cultivate it by not just observing, but also applying the obvious? 

The matter of what this new politician for Bulgaria should be like have been keeping my mind busy because I was trying to answer one, I believe very hard question – why, after 25 years of democracy, Bulgaria ends up in one and the same vicious circle where even completely new figures on the political scene, after a while, start behaving as well-known political veterans.

The mourning of a nation

The airplane crash of flight MH17 in Eastern Ukraine shouted out the cruelty of a war conflict in the face of the whole world, as a single shot killed, in a single moment, nearly 300 people from twelve nationalities. Such unfortunate events are, sadly, well known to the world and sadly again, this is hardly the first moment completely innocent people are unwillingly involved in a conflict or a fight they have absolutely nothing in common with. The Lockerbie case is probably a suitable example of the same. In a good part of the last two centuries such events have almost always called an immediate and, in the majority of the cases, military response.