Romanian newspaper: Russia intensifies its attacks on Europe. Bulgaria: politics is on target

One of the most important Romanian dailies, Romania Libera, is featured on the front page today with abundant material on the Russian attack on Bulgaria, for which President Rumen Radev is used.

Rumen Georgiev Radev is a Bulgarian military reserve major general. Former commander of. The author of the article, Adriana Constantinescu, published the headline that “Russia is intensifying its attacks on Europe. Bulgaria is now the target.”

This is what the analysis says:

Russia is intensifying its attacks on Europe. Germany, Britain, France, Austria, Spain and Poland have become key targets of Russian intervention and influence, placing Europe’s largest economies on the “front lines of a new Cold War.” In Spain, there is an investigation into Russian interference in Catalonia. Austria is constantly on the lookout for espionage. France had frozen its foreign policy for four years. An unprecedented report was published in Britain recently that Moscow was embroiled in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. Gazprom constantly undermines Poland. Germany is on the front lines of Russian hybrid action for intervention and influence in Europe, writes John Kampfner, journalist and senior fellow at the RUSI Royal Unified Services Institute (RUSI).

The country faces various dangers from Russia, which are primarily focused on cybersecurity, but are by no means limited to that. The article says that Russian President Vladimir Putin “and what his sophisticated propaganda machine has accomplished is distinguishing Russia from Soviet communism in East Germany.”

“Russia is using German political parties to achieve its strategic goals. Support for both extremes – the Alternative for Germany (AfD) on the right and the left on the left … is steadily growing in support and influence throughout Germany. “Kampfner wrote.

Russian attacks are starting to target other smaller European countries, which are finding it difficult to resist. The Kremlin has been targeting a Balkan country and an EU member, Bulgaria, for several years. According to local analysts, Moscow and its secret services have been inciting protests in the country for two months. They are directed against the pro-European and pro-NATO ruling party of the right GERB.

Rumen Radev came out in support of the people in the streets

Rumen Georgiev Radev is a Bulgarian military reserve major general. Former commander of, chairman of the left-wing opposition BSP (former Communist Party), whose election is believed to be coordinated between party leader Cornelia Ninova and Russian General Leonid Reshetnikov. This was even written by the influential Spanish newspaper ABC. According to the publication, Radev and fugitive Bulgarian oligarch from Dubai Vasil Bozhkov are among the organizers of the protests at this time in Bulgaria. Bozhkov is accused by the country’s public prosecutor’s office of money laundering and tax crimes.

Spanish media: oligarch Vasil Bozhkov organizes protests in Bulgaria

Radev initially recruited two other pro-Russian alumni, former journalists Elena Yoncheva and Ivo Hristov. Last year, they became MEPs from the Bulgarian left, which is part of the Party of European Socialists (PES).

As soon as she took office, Elena Yoncheva spoke out against the EU sanctions against Russia. She herself is of Russian descent and is trained. Her mother, Larissa, is Russian and graduated in television journalism in communist-era Moscow. According to Bulgarian analysts, Yoncheva is implementing a plan by Russia’s secret services to compromise Bulgaria, using the EU justice systems.

Under the pretext of fighting corruption, the aim is to alienate Bulgaria as totally corrupt and not in accordance with European directives. This is stigmatized as a lawless state for the Russian secret services to strike and take power in the country. The “nationwide protests” aim to overthrow the legally elected government of pro-European and pro-NATO Prime Minister Boyko Borissov of the right-wing GERB party, which is ruling Bulgaria for the third time. The aim of the Russian services is for the country to leave the EU and NATO and increase its influence. Russia is playing a similar game in neighboring Serbia from Bulgaria.

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Elena Yoncheva is not interested in the image of Bulgaria and the consequences of her anti-Bulgarian activities. Her goal is to overthrow Boyko Borissov and increase Russian influence. That is why the Bulgarian MEPs plan to inform the leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP) and the European Socialist Party (PSE) about this directive from the Russian secret services, which use the judiciary for political purposes. The two venues must also take into account the guidelines and tasks set before European prosecutors in May to avoid using the judiciary for political purposes and using it in favor of Russian interests. In addition to compromising the democratic and anti-Russian parties and their leaders.

Local analysts say Elena Yoncheva has been used repeatedly to carry out Russian secret service tasks, starting with raising the image of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad with money from Russia’s foreign trade bank VTB to reach out to anti-opposition opposition. Bulgarian through the pro-Russian opposition BSP. its anti-European presence in the European Parliament. He has come to demand a definitive political solution from Spain’s anti-corruption commission. This must be condemned by holding her responsible, because it is one of the proofs of her membership in the group for the fulfillment of Russia’s strategic objectives. Namely, the illegal use of the judicial authorities of EU countries for political purposes.

A similar scenario unfolded in Switzerland, where prosecution proceedings were initiated against the confederation’s chief prosecutor, Michael Lauber, for unregulated Russian contacts. They are linked to his subordinate “Russia expert,” Russia’s former deputy chief prosecutor Saak Karapetyan (who died in a plane crash) and the infamous lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was questioned about Russia’s interference in the US elections. There are many cases involving Russia in Switzerland and the Swiss briefly call them the “three Ms”: mobsters, billionaires, ministers.

An interesting case is that MEP Elena Yoncheva was presented as accused of money laundering by the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office in her capacity as owner and director of the company “Offroad”., whose funds he had the right to dispose, writes in the local media. More recently, as a journalist, he worked for bankrupt private television TV7.

The television station itself was financed by the collapse of the private bank KTB of former banker Tsvetan Vassilev, who is wanted by the prosecutor’s office in Bulgaria and is hiding in Serbia. The state prosecutor’s office has established that in 2012 Yoncheva formed a joint venture with an offshore company, which then deposited more than 650,000 BGN (325,000 EUR) into the accounts of the new company, that is, of the CCB bank of the wanted banker Tsvetan Vassilev before the financial one. institution that will declare bankruptcy and attract the savings of tens of thousands of Bulgarian citizens. According to the country’s prosecutor’s office, Yoncheva knew she was laundering money that had been drained from the Corporate Commercial Bank in previous years.

This is the real picture of the Russian actors in Bulgaria. Moscow’s pressure on Sofia is on a political, economic, cultural and religious level.

If today someone continues to serve the Russian hybrid actions and attacks, they must face the fact that since BGN 1 in the Bulgarian’s pocket, 80 stotinki come from the EU. Russian influence is the “new normal” in Europe and only united can we oppose it! , concludes the analysis of Romania Libera.

The news was shared today by the GERB deputy, Desislava Atanasova. “While protesting with the BSP, Kostya and Maya Shansza Oresharski, do fans of Romanian models read Romanian newspapers?” He asked in a post.