Word: simeonov
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...organized process from lower and middle levels" of the Communist Party, "and even some people at the top," said Petko Simeonov, a leader of the opposition Club for Glasnost and Democracy...
...protests "could push the country in a neo-Fascist and nationalist direction," said Simeonov. "This problem could deform the democratic processes in Bulgaria and postpone the talks...
...Vladimir Simeonov, 30, a Bulgarian defector working in London for the BBC, failed to show up for work last week. Concerned, a colleague went to his east London row house to investigate. He found Simeonov dead, clad in a bathrobe and pajama bottoms, face down at the bottom of his stair well...
Normally, Simeonov's apparent fall would have been dismissed as an accident. Police found no telltale injuries on his body, and a post-mortem indicated death by asphyxiation: the victim had suffocated in his own blood after breaking his nose. But two of Simeonov's countrymen had just come forth with bizarre tales suggestive of a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy concocted by the legendary S.M.E.R.S.H. Since one of the two, Georgi Markov, 49, a friend of Simeonov's and also a BBC broadcaster, had just been murdered in diabolical fashion, Scotland Yard was asking some very stern questions about Simeonov...
During the past year, Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov has been trying to improve relations with the West. Bulgaria claims that Markov and Simeonov were liquidated by Western intelligence services seeking to besmirch the country's image. To lend credence to that pitch, the regime offered to help British authorities dealing with the case. It was an offer the British just might be able to refuse...