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SOFIA - Bulgaria and NATO will sign an agreement allowing NATO to enter the country freely, President Petar Stoyanov said yesterday. Under the current law, foreign troops may only enter with parliamentary permission. Permission is needed for each individual movement of troops. Stoyanov said that a memorandum to simplify that procedure will be signed during his visit to NATO headquarters at Brussels, Belgium, next week. Stoyanov would not divulge details about the contents of the document. Bulgaria hopes to receive an invitation to join NATO next year. (AP)
can anyone blame the russians for trying to start a new alliance? nato is starting the next cold war!
Why should NATO invite Bulgaria to join ... Bulgaria just unvited NATO to invade.
"Under the current law, foreign troops may only enter with parliamentary permission."
Yah .... right!
I don't blame the Russians for anything. They're just a little mad that they're not expanding as rapidly as NATO.
Bulgaria really needs a new government. I don't know what Stoyanov thinks the country will benefit by groveling this way (or what threats have been issued if he doesn't agree, considering its weak position on the border with Turkey, etc.)
Bulgarian policy has been strange all this century, due primarily to being unduly influenced by the Germans (like being on the German side in both World War I and II against their fellow Slavs). I would rather stand proud like the Serbs no matter what it takes.
Naturally, since Bulgaria borders Yugoslavia on the east, if NATO does get the prior approval as mentioned here, then we may see a string of NATO bases all along the border with Serbia. I think it is wonderful to see an alliance of the governments of 700,000,000 see a little country of 10,000,000 (Yugoslavia) be such a threat to their way of life.
expansion for russia is very limited, that is why they look to china/india/iran/north korea/libya/vietnam.
yeltsin was sleeping when nato moved east in 1998.
Yeltsin was too busy looting his own country to care. Thankfully, Putin inherited his mess, and will have to clean it up first.
I would be very careful calling Bulgars - Slavs, I think they prefer to be called turks.
I wouldn't think so, or else they wouldn't have memorials to the horrible massacres perpetrated against them by the Ottoman Turkish troops in 1878-1879, like the church where they have several thousands skeletons from the worst massacre left where they lay after the Turks left, as a reminder to future generations. I always heard that calling a Serb or a Bulgarian a "Turk" is about the worst insult possible.
I agree with ibn. Referring to Bulgarians as Slavs is a bit of a very heavy stretch. After all they are a mixture of Thracians, Vlachs, Slavs, Turks, Mongols,... anything else?
In fact they are a mixed people and not really Slavs as such. Sure they are "a little bit" Slavs, but so are the Germans or Austrians. Probably that is why they fought on their side in the last two world wars. Do not be surprised if they will fight on the German/Western side in the Third World War too....
I read that they offer FYROM their troops in the operations against the Albanian terrorists. That is very interesting, because I believe Bulgarians helped in getting these very same terrorists to Kosmet in 1998-1999. And it was they who refused the Russians' a fly over to get their peacekeepers to Kosmet before NATO did. They are of surely of most immense help, to NATO and Albanian terrorists...
You are of course right, but I am relying on the identification dating from the 6th century when the Bulgars moved from central Asia (what is now the south Russian steppes) after attacks by the Khazars or whoever. I had always heard that there was a fairly small number of original-Bulgars who moved to the Danube (while one part moved to Italy and another moved to present-day Macedonia). Maybe it's a matter of interpretation, since the Church Slavonic we use and understand in our Orthodox services is really just ancient Bulgarian, so why would one not think that same language signifies similar heritage; and since teh Bulgars while in Asia were a very tolerant mixture of many, I had always thought that the sheer number of Slavs with whom they settled made them generally Slavic.
I have a book by Bojidar Dimitrov "Bulgarians, Civilizers of the Slavs" which I got on my last visit to the Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. I always thought that the title meant the Bulgarians identified with the Slavs generally.
Sorry to say that but you are incorrect. The Old Church Slavonic is based on an extinct Slavic tongue that was spoken in the area of present-day Saloniki, and not on any old Bulgarian language.
As regards that Pittsburgh institution and all its publications, I think that it is very clear from its own very name that this organization is nothing more than the Bulgarians' promotion of the false and groundless idea that ethnic Macedonians (or Macedo-Slavs as they are also known) are Bulgarians, and/or that they are descended from them. This is nothing more than a "justification" of the rabid Bulgarian expansionism, and of Bulgarization of non-Bulgarians (including ethnic Macedonians or Macedo-Slavs), under the guise of cultural activities.
Talking of Bulgarians as "civilizers of the Slavs" is not only preposterous, but has something of a Nazi-like tone in it. I believe that many chauvinistic German nationalists, including Nazis, claim(ed) the very same thing.
I am a Bulgarian. Thank "wild and crazy russian" for supporting us. I don't understand, Buttie, your anti-Slav and anti-Bulgarian attitude. We are Slavs indeed. I should know better. But this is not the point. The point is that our neo-colonial, US-puppet rulers have given out to NAziTO our souvereignity. A full capitulation. A new Rambuillet, but without any resistance!!! But nobody should make the mistake to mess up a people with its rulers. The notion that we have elected them is manipulative. We all know that the "democraZy" is just a curtain to the true dictature of the world oligarchy and their servants here.
Please all sign the Petition demanding freedom for Slobodan Milosevic!
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