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Borislav B. Arabadjiev, a doctoral student at USC who had known Georgiev since they went to elementary school together in Varna, a small town in their native Bulgaria, characterized Georgiev as a bright individual...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria: In Sofia, the cry was "Victory!" When President Petar Stoyanov emerged from a four-hour meeting to announce that the Socialists had agreed to step down and allow new elections in April, he was hoisted on the shoulders of supporters, and Bulgarians ended 30 days of protests to erupt in celebration. Bulgaria's next Prime Minister, says TIME's Massimo Calabresi, will almost certainly be opposition leader Ivan Kostov of the United Democratic Forces. But what relief his term will bring is uncertain. "Kostov is a former finance minister with the UDF," Calabresi noted, "and at the time...
...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...