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04/12/2008

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Andreev, Alexander

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Dnevnik - Bulgaria | 21/08/2008

A radical smoking ban

The daily newspaper Dnevnik criticises Europe's widespread anti-smoking laws, drawing parallels to the anti-smoking campaign in the Third Reich: "Tobacco is 'race poison', and cigarettes are an attribute of 'ignoble races' like Gypsies and Jews. The lungs of 'the chosen people' should remain pure, however, according to just a few of the postulates of National Socialist ideology and practice. To avoid being misunderstood: of course smoking is harmful, and non-smokers need protection. Nevertheless the anti-liberal spirit which is gradually (as in the US) becoming established in the EU, the militant intolerance toward smokers and the series of bizarre restrictions call to mind Adolf Hitler's manic fight against smoking."

Dnevnik - Bulgaria | 23/08/2007

The fight against the mafia

Alexander Andrejew writes about the mafia murders in which six men were killed a few days ago at the central station in Duisberg, in Germany. "The shooting of the six Italians in Duisberg will probably move not only German politicians but also Brussels to revise some of its short-sighted views in the battle against mafia. Paradoxically, this bloodbath - in addition to many other things - could help to correct a widespread misconception: not only the Poles, the Bulgarians and the Romanians have their mafias. There are other mafias and no country can protect itself single-handedly against them."

Dnevnik - Bulgaria | 03/05/2007

Restricted press freedom in Bulgaria

Each year the Freedom House organisation publishes a report on the state of press freedom all over the world. The most recent report defined press freedom as only "partial" in Bulgaria, which ranked 76th on the list. "It's an open secret in Bulgaria that some media publish paid publications that are not identified as such... On topics such as the decommissioning of the controversial Kosloduj power plant, the 'You are not alone' initiative for solidarity with the imprisoned nurses in Libya or the legend of Batak [the current debate about the liberation from the 'Turkish yoke' in 1876], where there is a high degree of consensus, divergent comments that go against the tide of patriotic rhetoric are regarded as undesirable by certain publishers and owners of publications. In other words, freedom of the media in Bulgaria reaches its limits at the point where political or economic pressure comes into play, whereby there is always pressure from the masses... It's one thing to make the observation that certain sections of the population support the death penalty, Islamism or the persecution of homosexuals, it's quite another to report that these views are justified and at the same time forbid any criticism."

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