euro|topics - Georgi Gospodinov

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Dnevnik - Bułgaria | 22/05/2009

Bulgaria's missed rendezvous with 1989

Georgi Gospodinov comments in the daily Dnevnik on why Bulgaria is missing from the European Commission's video on the events of 1989, and what could happen as a result: "True, we didn't have the year '56, or '68, or '81 (although we don't like it at all when people remind us of this), but don't take the year 1989 from us! You can't say the 10th of November never happened. Every one of us has a story about this day. ... Our dismay at once more being left out of things can have two consequences: the usual angry reaction 'Europe despises us' or - and this is what I hope - the start of a discussion about 1989. Such a public discussion would allow us to bring together our minutes of resistance. Three minutes of freedom in documentary images of the past 20 years."

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Dnevnik - Bułgaria | 09/04/2008

Bulgarian author shot

This Monday the 35-year-old Georgi Stoev, author of several novels about the links between the Mafia and politics, was shot on one of Sofia's most popular squares. Just a day earlier, a prominent businessman was also killed in front of his apartment. Georgi Gospodinov is outraged: "It is probably unlikely that we are watching the border between reality and fiction dissolve, as it does in Stoev's books. But one thing is clear: his murder means a line has been crossed. How much longer do we have to put up with people trying to convince us that the mud we are stuck in is a field of flowers? We do not know who the contract killers are. But we recognise the demagogic intent to sell an illusion as normality. And we know who the architects of this illusory normality are, which is shattered every now and then by gunshots and explosions. There are also the set designers who arrange Bulgaria for the Brussels diplomats when they come to Sofia."

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Dnevnik - Bułgaria | 12/10/2007

Bulgaria's teachers call for the government's resignation

Bulgaria's largest demonstration in ten years took place yesterday. Following three weeks of fruitless negotiations with the government, tens of thousands of teachers gathered to call for its resignation. Georgi Gospodinov reports that the governing Socialists resorted to massive security measures, for fear that the stormy events which precipitated the fall of the cabinet in 1997 could be repeated: "It's a long time since I've seen the city centre in such a state. There were metal fences surrounding the entire parliament building, hoards of police and dozens of road blocks. It was like a film reconstruction of the events of ten years ago. ... Who are these 'dangerous elements' against whom these measures are directed? The teachers. The government describes their demands for the doubling of their 150 euro salaries as a threat that could exacerbate inflation. ... At a time when governments all over the world are investing in knowledge, the Bulgarian state is keeping its teachers at arm's length."

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Dnevnik - Bułgaria | 05/10/2007

The teachers' strike in Bulgaria

According to Georgi Gospodinov, the teachers' strike which has gone on for ten days now is about more than higher salaries and educational reforms: "The teacher is on the dark side of Bulgarian society. His presence on the streets and the radicalisation of the strike is an attempt to step out of this life in the shadows. ... Because as far as light is concerned, there is another, parallel Bulgaria. These are people you never read about in the papers unless there's a fire, a flood or a crime. In this other Bulgaria dressmakers, cleaning ladies and museum staff work for tiny salaries without having any rights and with false insurance documents. ... The teachers' demands for better pay are a sign of their desire for respect."

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Dnevnik - Bułgaria | 24/08/2007

Racist outbursts in Europe

Bulgaria is currently debating how to deal with its Roma minority. Last week, after skinheads attacked a group of Roma, a group of Roma attacked Bulgarians in one of Sofia's suburbs. The Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinow writes: "There are many stereotypes about the Roma - they have a bad reputation. Although we've been living in the same country for decades, we have always looked down on the Roma, they were always pushed aside... Stereotypes rob others of their past, deprive them of their right to a biography, to their children, to their mothers, their mourning, their toothaches and their childhood... It's easier to beat up someone who's different and about whom one knows virtually nothing."

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