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• SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Pope John Paul told Bulgaria's president on Friday that he never believed allegations that there was a Bulgarian connection to the 1981 attempt on his life, a Vatican spokesman said. ...
• "I never believed in the so-called Bulgarian connection because of my great esteem and respect for the Bulgarian people," the Pope told President Georgi Parvanov in an official meeting, according to papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. ...
• It was the first time John Paul has publicly expressed his view about lingering suspicions that Bulgarian secret agents were behind Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca's shooting of the Pope in St. ...
• Bulgarian agents had been suspected of working for the Soviet KGB, said at the time to have been alarmed by John Paul's support for the Solidarity trade union in his native Poland. ...
• In his arrival speech Thursday, the Pope said he had "never ceased" to love the Bulgarian people. ...
• For years, Maxim refused to meet with the Pope, thwarting numerous efforts by the Bulgarian government to organize a visit, which the Vatican said it would consent to only if Orthodox leaders would welcome it. ...
• But on Thursday, he showed a bit of strength and spirit, walking a few brisk steps with a cane, standing through the Bulgarian and Vatican anthems and beginning his welcome address with a clear voice and a joke about his age. ...
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• Prague, 28 February 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Simeon II acceded to the Bulgarian throne at the age of six in 1943 after the death of his father. ...
• Since then, he has come back for several more visits, and has had his Bulgarian citizenship restored and former property returned. But despite numerous contacts with politicians and other public figures in Bulgaria, Simeon has not played an active role in domestic politics. ...
• Political analyst Ognian Minchev says Simeon's possible ambitions may cause a shift in Bulgarian politics. ...
• "Because of these politicians being pushed to the sidelines of Bulgarian politics , the personality and the intentions of Simeon the second are a very useful means which could be employed, under certain circumstances, to bring those marginal political figures back to the center stage in political life. ...
• "Simeon does not enter Bulgarian politics saying that he is ready, together with the UDF, to work toward a common goal. He enters Bulgarian political life independently and thus becomes a UDF competitor for votes in June parliamentary elections. ...

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• In 1994 the consumer price inflation was over 120% and in spring 1996 the Bulgarian leva was devaluated drastically once more, several banks had to close down and prices for many goods were increased. ...
• After the changes in 1989 two major political forces emerged, he Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) an umbrella coalition of Christian Democrats, Liberals, Social Democrats, Greens and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), uniting the ex- communist. ...
• In the end of 1994 - like in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe- the ex-communists the Bulgarian ex-communists managed to return to power. ...
• In the areas with an ethnic Turkish majority Jeliev got between 74 and 84% of the vote and also won in the regions where many Bulgarian Muslims are living.

• Prince Alexander wanted to marry Princess Victoria of Prussia, but her brother Prince Wilhelm objected, in part because of his non-royal orgins and in part because of the unstable Bulgarian throne. ...
• The First Grand National Assembly (the Bulgarian Parliament) in 1879 elected the German prince Alexander of Battenberg as prince of Bulgaria. ... The new Bulgarian constitution was at odds with the young Alexander's concept of royal power. ...
• Frustrated by the intricacies of Bulgarian politics, Prince Alexander staged a royal coup on April 27, 1881, annoncing, "In the past 2 years I allowed every possible attempt to be made for the construction and the proper development of the state, but unfortunately my hopes were thwarted. ...
• He thus followed Europdean power politics very closely. ... The Tsar's support was very important in Bulgarian politics as many Bulgarians for ehnic and religious reasons, as well as Russian military support in defeating the Turks, identified with the Russians. ... Some of the Bulgarian populated areas controlled by the Ottomans (Eastern Rumelia or southern Bulgaria) were united with the Principality after a popular insurection against the Ottoman Turks in 1885. ... The Bulgarian Army, however, defeated the Serbians. ...
• In one of the many ironies of history, the Tsar who refused to grant a constitution to his people, help oust the Bulgarian Prince who objected to a democratic consitution. ...
• Princess Victoria's brother Prince Wilhelm and his wife Donna objected, in part because of his non-royal orgins and in part because of the unstable Bulgarian throne. ...
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• At a conference entitled: Peoples versus States: Ethnic and Civil Conflicts Resolution and Prevention, organized by the Institute for Regional and International Studies and the Political Science Department of the University of Sofia, and sponsored by the Opens Society Fund in Sofia, Professor Gurr presented on the themes of his book, Peoples versus States, newly published by the Bulgarian Military Publishing House with United States Embassy assistance. ... For his publication in Bulgarian language, as well as for his scholarly contributions in the field of ethnic conflict Sofia University conferred on Professor Gurr the title Doctor honoris causa.
• He also gave interviews to the Bulgarian media on issues of Balkan ethnic conflicts.
• Davies introduced participants to concepts and techniques for conflict transformation, using a ‘learning by doing’ approach through which participants addressed ongoing conflicts between Roma and Bulgarian populations in Bulgaria, as well as between the Albanian and Macedonian populations in Macedonia. ...
• Role of Islam in Bulgarian and Balkan Politics, 2004:The Partners in Peacebuilding in the Balkans Project, in cooperation with the National Center for the Study of Public Opinion in Bulgaria, plans to launch a project on the role of Islam in Bulgarian/Balkan politics. ...
• 2002: Ted Robert Gurr, Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland: Peoples versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century (in Bulgarian), Bulgarian Military Publishing House;.
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• Khan Boris ascended to the Bulgarian throne In 852 AD and inherited an enormous state. He took part in the high European politics over a period of ten years. ... The contacts with the European Christian countries convinced the Bulgarian politicians that despite its military might Bulgaria held an inequitable position on the international stage. This was obviously a result of the officially declared pagan nature of the Bulgarian state. ...
• Khan Boris and the supreme leaders of the Bulgarian aristocracy in the capital decided to adopt the Christian faith as the one and only official religion of the Bulgarians and the state. ... At the border, the Byzantine troops were met by Bulgarian envoys who announced the decision of the Bulgarians to assume the Christian faith from Constantinople, which signified an observance of the Eastern Greek Orthodox rite. In practice, this meant that the Bulgarian diocese would be subordinated to the patriarchal in Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Michael III (842-867) who had set out on a campaign against his strong neighbor obviously with a sinking heart, suddenly felt happy that he could come out of the battle with flying coolers and did not only agree with the Bulgarian proposition but also ceded to Bulgaria the region of Zagora in southern Thrace. ...
• As soon as the end of that same year, the Bulgarian ruler subordinated the Bulgarian church to the Roman Pope. Concerned about the future of the state, Boris saw the danger of the Bulgarian clergy, having been administratively subdued to Constantinople, to become a conductor of foreign interests. The papacy which was not backed up by any genuine military power at that time seemed to Boris inclined to allow greater independence to the Bulgarian clergy and thus, more opportunities for control on the part of the political power. ... However, the see in Rome did not agree to give the Bulgarian dioces autonomy greater than the autonomy allowed under the traditional organization of the Catholic church. For that reason, about 870 AD Boris again oriented the subordination of the Bulgarian Christians toward Byzantium which had already become susceptible to certain compromise on that so important a matter. The church in Constantinople gave its consent to the acknowledgement of the autocephaly of one single Bulgarian archbishopric, comprising all Bulgarian lands and connected de jure with the oecumenical partiarchate. De facto that meant independence for the Bulgarian church and a possibility for the Bulgarian political leaders to have control over their prelates' activities, i. ... It sought consolation in the expectation that the Greek language used in public worship, in the cultural and official state doings throughout Bulgaria after its forced conversion to Christianity, would act as a powerful weapon for the gradual cutting the ground under the feet of the Bulgarian nation and its structures of state power. ...

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• Minority Nationalism in the Balkans: the Bulgarian Case.
• The paper outlines possible effects that the Yugoslav war might have on neighboring countries, with special focus on Bulgarian foreign trade and FDIs.
• Trying to assess the prospects of Bulgarian Reforms, emerging market analysts fail to observe bureaucratic factors. ...
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• The fact that the Bulgarian president signed the European Convention on the Protection of Minority Rights, as well as the latter's forthcoming ratification by the Bulgarian National Assembly, have refocused the perspective of public attention on the issues concerned with the different ethnic groups living in Bulgaria. ... The search for a way out of this situation has led to the idea of the necessity of integrating the minority groups into the larger Bulgarian society and, in particular,  their equitable representation in the administrative structures and their direct involvement in the resolution of their own problems as part of the overall settlement of the problems of the Bulgarian society as a whole. ...
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• The second important issue, in their opinion, is the participation of their representatives in the National Assembly - a circumstance which, in analytical terms, immediately throws a bridge to big politics raising the particular question of the place and involvement of the ethnic minorities in it. ...
• This common attitude of the majority, regardless of the attendant explanations, brings us back to big politics, because the integration of the minority groups into the Bulgarian society and their participation in the government are mainly articulated as a political issue and quite often are subject to political speculations. That is why in the study referred to above the researchers sought to identify the "co-ordinates" of the minority groups within the Bulgarian political configuration. ...
• First, because the members of the minority groups are much more inclined to seek recognition and public self-realization - including by taking positions in the system of government - on the basis of their ethnic identification rather than as members of the Bulgarian nation. ... In this way their adequate integration into the Bulgarian society, through engagement in the system of power, is not a process which can be accomplished rapidly or easily. ...
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• Bulgarian President, French Ambassador Discuss Position on Iraq.
• During the meeting, Parvanov expressed concerns that Chirac is dividing Europe into "new" and "old" and also described as "unacceptable" the negative assessments of Bulgarian politics voiced by French officials over the past few weeks. ...

• That is reflected by the comparatively small number of English-language publications on its history, politics and society. ... Both Vesselin Dimitrov, lecturer in politics at the London School of Economics, and Emil Giatzidis,  PhD graduate from the University of Sheffield, undertake to assess Bulgarian transition�s successes and failures. ...
•  From the outset, the discussion of Bulgarian past shows important differences between the two accounts. ... Not much is made of the indigenous traditions of self-government and activism illustrated by phenomena as diverse as the Bulgarian national mobilization in the 19th century and the cooperative movement since the 1890s either. Overall, Dimitrov�s account of the years up to 1944 is superior, not the least because it pays attention with key issues as Bulgarian nationalism and its impact on the state�s domestic and foreign policy. ...
• Yet, Giatzidis� strong bias towards the economy implies a sort of a tradeoff as it obscures certain themes as significant as the �nationalisation� of Bulgarian communism finding its most notorious expression in the campaign of forced Bulgarianization of the Turkish ethnic minority. When it comes to identity politics, Dimitrov shows greater insight, which also gives authority to his account the inclusion of the Bulgarian Turks in the country�s political life after 1989.
• Dimitrov offers two competing explanations why the Bulgarian democracy survived through thick and thin all through the decade despite the heavy burden put by the reforms on ordinary people. The first is grounded on the fact that transition has chiefly been an elite business and the stability of the system was upheld by recurrent deals struck by the chief political actors with vested interest, the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party and the pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces (UDF). ...
• The respective chapters on Bulgarian economy trace the uneasy progress with market reforms in the mid-1990s leading to the collapse of 1996-97 as well as the macroeconomic stabilization and radical reformist policies under the UDF government headed by Ivan Kostov. ...
• Joining the West and its institutions, dealing with the negative fallout of regional instability and redefining ties with Russia have been the principle aims of Bulgarian diplomacy. ... With that said, there is little disagreement on the successes of Bulgarian foreign policy: the gradual progress in its relations with the neighbours and the inclusion in the EU and NATO eastern enlargement.
• To sum up, Dimitrov is more suitable to be a general introduction to Bulgarian politics and society, while Gatzidis is more authoritative on the issue of democratic consolidation and, therefore, may be of interest for a broader audience. ... One may hope that there will be some more titles to either update or introduce the English-language reader to specific aspects of contemporary Bulgarian politics, economics and society.

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• Due to the seemingly similar disintegration processes in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, a growing number of Russian actors used the wars in the Balkans as a way of raising their profile in domestic politics. ...
• The reserves of Russia's Balkan politics lie in the energy economy, for which above all Bulgaria as transit country for oil and gas plays a major role. ...
• Yugoslavia was for Russia not an object of a calculated policy, but rather an instrument, sometimes for Russia's policies towards the West, and sometimes for domestic politics. ...
• But with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the socialist treaty systems Moscow's traditional instruments for hegemonic influence politics had vanished. ...
• Supposedly cultural or religious commitments towards the Serbs were and are not the basis of action for politics or government action. ...
• It seems that Russians merely took note of the fact that the once so popular Bulgarian canned foods, red wine and tobacco had disappeared from the shops. ... Instead it seems that the perception of the Russian-Yugoslav parallels in the course of the 1990s followed the disintegration process of the Yugoslav Federation, so that attention was always focused upon the object towards which Nato too directed its politics, that is the sphere ruled by Belgrade at any particular moment. ...
• Secondly, the tremendous significance of symbolic actions for Russian politics comes clear, because these events in terms of their outcomes meant little more than a gain in prestige. ...
• Still, on the political side Russo-Bulgarian relations came into a standstill in a way that cannot not be explained Sofia's striving for EU and Nato membership alone. ... Feelings were hurt when for example Russia was not invited to a conference of the Southeast European defence ministers, and afterwards the then Foreign Minister Evgenii Primakov refused to meet his Bulgarian colleague, Nadezhda Michailova on the occasion of the UN General Assembly. ...
• The Bulgarian political scientist Rumen Dimitrov explains this loss of dialogue and of interstate cooperation as a "crisis of negotiation", but something else might also have been involved here. ...
• Thus one can suspect that Russian foreign politics, beneath its reflex-like concentration on the geopolitical global "Great game", has lost the means for a Balkan policy directed to the region itself.
• By means of contacts, based on networks from socialist times, Gazprom tried to influence key decisions in Bulgarian energy politics. A conflict that dominated the Bulgarian media as the "gas war", developed over the question of which enterprises should have the rights for the distribution of gas in Bulgaria. ... But in the case of Bulgaria Gazprom used its connections to the former Bulgarian party elite, which had by then succesfully privatised its material resources. At the centre of this issue stood the Bulgarian conglomerate Multigroup, as well as the former member of the Bulgarian Politburo and first prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrey Lukanov. ...

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• Differing points of view of the Albanian politics regarding the Macedonian situation were also brought to the surface in a discussion held on March 7 in the Foreign Policy Commission of the Albanian Parliament, which proposed the adoption of a special declaration on Macedonian events by the Parliament. ...
• The first one is the proposal of the Bulgarian President, Petre Stojanov, presented on March 5 to the Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on sending the Bulgarian troops to the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. The Albanian Government, which did not like one bit this Bulgarian proposal on deploying troops on the border that is populated on both sides by Albanians, did not officially and publicly oppose this surprising Bulgarian proposal. It stated that the matter was closed by half-denial of the Bulgarian Prime Minister and Defence Minister, who explained that they had offered to send military assistance and nor troops. ...
• President of the Parliamentary Commission Godo also criticised the proposal of the Bulgarian President, same as Genc Polo, President of the New Democratic Party. The Albanian Government sources say that the opposition that Petre Stojanov's proposal met with in Albania has caused concern in Sofia and that the high officials of the Bulgarian Government have taken certain steps on March 8 aimed at clarifying the situation and cooling down the passions. ...

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• The study of the Bulgarian system of political parties assumed a relatively important position in the context of research in the genesis of party and political arrangements in post-communist countries of Central, South-East and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. It can be said that, in spite of certain delay, Bulgarian multipartism became one of the privileged subjects of that research, similarly to post-communist pluralisms in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (and/or Czechoslovakia). The attention given to Bulgarian party system was not a mere coincidence. The fact is that apart from some endemic peculiarities, Bulgarian multipartism also showed – and still, to a large extent, shows - some distinct features of indisputable interest and importance for the construction of models of formation of pluralist party systems, features linked especially with the complex phenomenon of Bulgarian post-communist party and political (bi)polarisation and its medium and long term system forming consequences. This article is a contribution to the discussion about the remarkable aspects of Bulgarian post-communist multipartism. In this perspective, special attention will be paid to links between the Bulgarian model of major pole dualism (Union of Democratic Forces, SDS, and Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP), the format of its party system and the systemic effect of the “extended” (“protracted”) initial social and political polarisation. In this context, also some partial issues related with the evolution of the potential and role of “third parties” in present-day Bulgarian context will be briefly addressed. 1 Throughout the 1990s, the Bulgarian party system was typical for a relatively small number of relevant parties and/or party alliances. It is interesting to note, in this context, that the question of classification (format definition) of the Bulgarian party arrangement during the greater part of the above mentioned period was rather a marginal aspect of the interpretation of polarity and functioning of the system. The Bulgarian party system has been most often classified as a limited multipartism or as a ”two and a half” party system; 2 of course only as long as the SDS - and eventually any other electoral formation of a major or minor importance for the Bulgarian party system functioning or profiling - was considered a single operational unit (cf. ... It has also been an obstacle to the verification of the total number and character of this or that way significant interaction fields or streams within the Bulgarian party arrangement.
• 3) This concept of Bulgarian party system of Karasimeonov was basically identical with, say, that of Attila Ágh, who says that early post-communist party systems were a variant of polarised pluralism (cf. ... Similarly, the Bulgarian political scientist D. Kanev thought that the Bulgarian political life was showing traits typical of an arrangement that Sartori called ”polarised pluralism” (Kanev 1996: 180-181). ... One can hardly suppress the impression that comparing the post-communist Bulgarian party system with polarised pluralism might in a number of cases result from insufficient knowledge of Sartori’s typology and from a wrong understanding of the concept of polarised pluralism as such. ... 6) The range of Bulgarian ”third parties” was naturally broader than the ”centrist” sphere and included also parties and factions which cannot be considered ”centrist” or centre-positioned in the proper sense of the word. ... 7) The extreme diversity of parties trying to embody the ”third force” in the Bulgarian party system was pointed to by A. Todorov who – apart from ephemeral formations – identified six ”permanent and relatively stable political families” of ”third parties” represented by the DPS, agrarian parties (various factions of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union, BZNS), social democrats (represented by the ”historical” social democracy, e. ... the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, BSDP; and the new formations, such as DAR or the Euroleft Coalition, the above category in fact including also left-centrist social-liberal parties), monarchists, populist (the Bulgarian Business Bloc, BBB) and (neo)communists. ... 8) The Bulgarian Socialist Party dominated an electoral alliance of its own, with the Political Club Ekoglasnost and one of the factions of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union as its junior partners. ... 10) As pointed out by the Bulgarian scholar Georgi Karasimeonov (during the seminar “International Influences on Democratization in East Central Europe”, Prague, 17-3-2000), the generation exchange that took place within the SDS elite was a necessary prerequisite for SDS transformation or, in other words, made way for its change from a heterogeneous anti-communist coalition to a comprehensive right centre party. ... The VMRO (re-named as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian National Movement, VMRO-BND) profiled itself as a nationalist conservative ”new right”.

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• After 864, which is the year when the Bulgarian State accepted the Christian Orthodox Religion as its official one, hundreds of missionaries left the territory to spread their beliefs. Like the great Russian academic Likhatchev said "They created a new state, a state of the spirit, which existence wasn't limited to the Bulgarian social and political life. ... " The Serbians and Croatians were the first nations to be converted by the Bulgarian missionaries. ... This way the extension of the Bulgarian literature was made in the settings of the Bulgarian state. ... During the 9th century the Bulgarian missionaries went to the Croat lands and converted thousands of persons, the Holy books were written in glagolotic (the oldest Slavic language). ... The starting of this "battle" was declared by the Bulgarian missionaries, who spread Christianity and the Slavic literature in Russia. ... The Bulgarian missionaries provided the Russian monasteries with books so the Christian beliefs weren't lost. ... Bulgarian missionaries even tried to convert Poles and Czechs, unfortunately those 2 countries stayed in the Catholic sphere and were always big supporters of Rome. However, in 973 the Pope started a campaign against the Bulgarian bishops of Prague and Krakow who had converted hundreds of Slavians. During centuries the Russians, the Serbians, the Croatians and even the Romanians copied the Bulgarian texts. In 1092 the russian tsar Svetoslav ordered a collection of great and wise speeches, the interesting fact is that on the cover page of the book there was a glorious dedication to the Bulgarian tsar Simeon I.
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• Karbala: US Marines handed over control of the central Iraqi city of Karbala to Bulgarian troops in a ceremony on Tuesday that the American military governor said offered promise for the future of democracy in Iraq. ...
• Outgoing military governor Colonel Matthew Lopes of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, passed command over the holy Shiite Muslim city to his Bulgarian counterpart, Colonel Petko Marinov. ...
• Some 250 Bulgarian troops will join a multinational task force of US and Polish troops in patrolling the city, 80 kilometres south of Baghdad, which has largely avoided the unrest afflicting the capital and other towns since the fall of Saddam Hussein. ...
• "This is a very important moment for the Bulgarian contingent and for the people of Karbala," said Marinov, who takes over the role of military governor of the city. ...
• The commander of Bulgarian troops in Iraq -- which number almost 500 with detachments also based in Babil and Baghdad -- Colonel Panayot Panayotov said his men faced many challenges in Iraq. ...

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