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Ruslan Trad

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15 Jul 20

Protests across #Bulgaria for a week. This is the first mass wave of protests in 7 years. There is a lot to explain to the foreign observer, but the most important thing is that people are extremely disgusted by the corruption and Orban-style government.

There are different groups in the protests. There is no clear leadership, but the protests began after an action by the democratic Yes, Bulgaria against luxury properties of State Security-related politician Ahmed Dogan and his circle.

Dogan's party is in coalition with the Nationalists and Borisov's party. They tried to threaten ethnic violence if the protests continued. These threats are no longer working and protests continue against the oligarchs who support the government.

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Ruslan Trad

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23 Jun 20

A new wave of revelations about trading in abuse of power in Bulgaria reveals connections between businessman Plamen Bobokov and a presidential adviser. For example, Bobokov has asked for police records to be deleted for a Libyan with whom he has contact.

We still don't know who this Libyan is, but he's from Benghazi. Most likely he helped with oil deals for a company where Bobokov participates - Prista Oil.

Bulgarian business has contacts in Benghazi for years, and Haftar was an opportunity. I am pretty sure there is a link.

In this way, the revelations about Bobokov's activity go in another direction. It is not just a clash between institutions in Bulgaria, but much deeper niches which were unknown to the ordinary Bulgarian audience.

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Ruslan Trad

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3 Dec 19

To imagine what life is like in some government areas in Syria: my family really has no livelihood because orchards have been destroyed by the army and farmers have no access to the land as a collective punishment for ”supporting rebels”.

One of my aunts has a disabled child. Her husband was killed. She has to support herself but cannot because of a lack of work. The family tries to help, but they do not have a livelihood because they haven't a right to cultivate the land. Absolute chaos.

Some relatives tried to work in Lebanon, but the isonomic situation is reflected badly. In this way, tens of thousands of people in the area are jobless.

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Ruslan Trad

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18 Jul 19

От известно време имаше подадени сигнали срещу българи, живеещи в Кения. Техните дейности включваха източване на кредитни карти, връзки с мафията и т.н. Цитираната фирма SportPesa е напълно българско творение за милиони €. Нека разкажа малко за това.

news.bg/world/keniya-g…

Фирмата SportPesa е създадена след като основателят й, Герасим Николов, успява да вкара пари за пране. Пет години след създаването си, фирмата е спонсор на Кенийската футболна лига, Евертън, Хъл Сити и с участие в Испанската лига.

Герасим Николов става известен през 1990-ге покрай връзките си с Барона. Заедно с Красен Тенев бягат в Кения след успешни акции за източване на кредитни карти. SportPesa е един от начините за изпиране на парите. Николов има връзки и с вицепрезидента на Кения.

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Ruslan Trad

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2 Jun 19

Over 360,000 Bulgarian Turks left Communist Bulgaria to Turkey between 30 May 1989 and 22 August 1989 as part of the so-called Revival Process - a policy of forced assimilation of Bulgaria's Muslim minority. This 1989 expulsion is one of the largest ethnic cleansings in Europe.

As part of the campaign, all Bulgarian nationals who were ethnically Turkish were forced to change their names to non-Muslim names amid much official intimidation, some violence and loss of life. Ethnic Bulgarian Muslims had already been forced to change their names in 1972.

The name-changing campaign was carried out between 1984 and 1985. The repressions lasted unabated from 1984 through 1989. Those who refused were subjected to persecution, including imprisonment, expulsion, and internment in the then reactivated infamous Belene concentration camp.

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Ruslan Trad

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23 Sep 18

This October marks 93 years of the French bombing of Damascus in 1925, predating by 12 years the Luftwaffe’s destruction of Guernica, which claimed an equal number of lives but is far better remembered.

In result of the bombardment, around 5000 people were killed, and property for near $9 million were completely destroyed, equal to $128,249,479 today.

In its April Issue The American Journal of International Law reports the French bombardment of Damascus. The publication takes into account the different data. According to the information, the killed were from 1000 to 5000 while the French authorities report 137 killed.

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