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Bulgaria, U.S.: Sofia Mayor's Harvard Visit Cancelled

Monday, February 2nd, 2009 @ 23:31 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Bulgaria
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Human Rights, Law, LGBT, Protest, International Relations, Politics

Veni Markovski writes about the cancellation of Sofia mayor's visit to John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard - here and here: “I feel relieved that my country will not be exposed by the rabidly gay-bashing Bulgarian politician!”

1 comment

Jonathan

What is is this guy racist or something or he’s just affraid of Americans!

# 2009-05-8 at 21:43 pm

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