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Through Bulgaria and its scandal with North Macedonia, Russia wants to destabilize the southern wing of NATO, writes the Sloboden Pechat newspaper amid the diplomatic war between Sofia and Skopje.
The Macedonian newspaper commented that the call by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva Skopje for her to abandon Tito’s celebration if she wants to join the EU seems absurd. This request was made in addition to the existing demands from Sofia, which currently block North Macedonia’s path to the EU.
The current Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov, is a former bodyguard of Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian opposition regularly lays flowers on Soviet monuments, while GERB’s United Patriots governing coalition partners are often a source of pro propaganda -Russian. Bulgaria is the subject of serious criticism from European politicians, intellectuals from all over Europe and the region, because the Bulgarian demands are more absurd than the Greek ones.
Bulgaria could have voiced the same objections that it has now made to North Macedonia when the Prespa Agreement was signed and when North Macedonia joined NATO, but the United States exerted very strong pressure to end the dispute. Sofia now faces a much softer European diplomacy.
Bulgaria also cleverly uses the US elections and takes advantage of the current vacuum in Washington’s focus, but this situation will end in a few months and then we will see how much Krassimir Karakachanov’s words weigh that no country can put pressure on Bulgaria. “Free Press” also points out that the Bulgarian political elite (both left and right) cannot easily break the strong historical and political ties with Moscow. It is through Bulgaria that Russia is trying to shake up NATO and, in particular, the Balkans.
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