Bulgaria && a funny Blagoevgrad mayor
I just read Flashnews (a student publication) from my Alma Mater, and the main news story from the latest issue is about a funny little incident that has something to with the Belarusian presidential “elections”:
Students carried the old Belarusian [white-red-white] flag walking around and jumping. “We were in a good mood,” said senior Jamila Rakhmanova, who helped organize the protest and joined her friends out of solidarity even though she is not Belarusian. Soon, however, a police officer intervened. It turned out that the students needed permission from the municipality of Blagoevgrad. But the mayor of Blagoevgrad, Lazar Prichkapov, refused to give it to them for fear of involving the municipality in an international political conflict, protesters said.
Funny.
P.S. What’s even funnier, Bulgaria has been the recurrent theme of the day. First of all, in the morning I had a dream that someone wanted to poison me with a glass of Bulgarian rakia that had a deadly chemical in it. Then, of course, we had old friends from the university coming over and staying at our place. And for dinner we decided to go together to a Bulgarian place, Trakia, where I tried to speak Bulgarian to a waitress. The place looks so authentically Bulgarian, and we had a real feast: shkembe chorba, pileshka supa, pulneni chushki, paniran ezik, katino meze, kufteta, kartofi sus sirene, and rakia. And then at night I got this Flashnews e-mail forwarded to me.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
have been reading your blog for a while; only now realized we shared the same alma mater…
actually, now from Za***llo’s stories that I’ve heard while at AUBG, I even figured out who you are…
keep up the good blogging–and Blago definitely needs a better mayor!
April 16th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
yauheni: Very interesting! :) Have we met? Pls, write to br23net@джымэйл.com
April 29th, 2006 at 2:46 am
Damn, it’s flattering to see my own name here… I think I know who yauheni is… Zhenka-the-boxer, is that you?
April 29th, 2006 at 2:48 am
oh, rydel, and I don’t think you met. if yauheni is the person who i think he is, you’ve already graduated by the time he came to aubg…
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for sharing
February 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
March 24th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.