Word: bulgaria
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...would be understandable if Bulgaria--ancient Roman annex, Ottoman Empire conquest, Soviet Union satellite--wasn't all that welcoming to foreigners. But there I was in Sofia, on my way to the public drinking fountains where locals fill up old Coke bottles with hot mineral water, when a lady pointed out that the bottle of wine I was carrying had broken through its plastic bag. I tucked the bottle back in as best I could and said thank you--good deed done, as far as I was concerned--but the woman kept cheerily talking in Bulgarian as she emptied...
...shame." The Soviet news agency used the episode as an opportunity to lambaste the CIA, reminding readers how the agency "prepared such subversive acts as the intrusion of a South Korean Boeing aircraft into Soviet airspace or the assassination attempt on the Pope, later falsely claiming that Bulgaria was involved...
...many Bulgarians do you expect to leave for the West this year? I don't expect a mass dramatic exodus. The U.K. and Ireland are restricting access to workers from Bulgaria and Romania, the other country just admitted to the E.U. They did not restrict access to Poles...
What do you think of the death sentences given to the five Bulgarian nurses in Libya? Bulgaria's opinion is that the court overlooked the evidence of international experts, including a letter from 114 Nobel prizewinners and an article in [science journal] Nature that said that the tragedy with the hiv epidemic in the children's hospital did not start with the arrival of the Bulgarian nurses but existed there before that. We are extremely disappointed. The court refused to allow the expertise, to hear the witnesses, offered by the defense...
...personally greet Bulgaria's entrance to the E.U.? In a square in Romania. I had an agreement with my Romanian colleague Mihai- Razvan Ungureanu that we would [celebrate in each others' cities]. So I went to Bucharest and he came to Sofia. [E.U. Enlargement Commissioner] Olli Rehn said that in the European Commission they used to talk about our two countries as R&B. There was an argument over which was the rhythm and which was the blues, but at the end everything finished successfully...