Word: bulgaria
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...Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...
...Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarians are finding out that democracy can be an unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered...
...party forced Videnov to resign the prime ministership last November, and to replace him the Socialists have designated the unpopular Nikolai Dobrev, the hard-line Interior Minister. But the new, anticommunist President of Bulgaria, Petar Stoyanov, who was sworn in this week to the mostly ceremonial post, is insisting the Socialists get together with the opposition Union of Democratic Forces on a reform program and a date for early parliamentary elections. The Socialists had been holding out for the official close of their term at the end of 1998, but last week they grudgingly proposed going to the polls...
...Finance Minister in the failed UDF government five years ago. He was not, however, a Communist Party member, and he has signed on for market-friendly policies in the past. If the Socialists don't go along, he says, it can only mean that "they want to put Bulgaria in the trash...