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A 5.6 magnitude earthquake, the strongest since 1917, shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia and the perimeter zone of around 100 km last night, followed by a number of strong aftershocks. No victims have been reported so far. The website Earthquake Reports has published live updates and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook were the first ones to spread the news. The hashtag #земетресение (”earthquake”) is used to communicate on the event through Twitter.
Young Bulgarians and guests from Italy, with support of the New Bulgarian University and project “Beautiful Europe” [bg] will meet on May 23 to discuss the “European idea” and what Europe means to Bulgarians at an event called “Blue Night” - an evening dedicated to the European idea [bg]. The event comes just one day before one of the brightest Bulgarian holidays - the Day of Slavic writing and culture.
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In the final segment of the report [ru] on the May 6 protest in Moscow, which ended in clashes with riot police, the Russian state-owned Channel 1 mentioned, among other things, a Spanish draft law [en] criminalizing online organization of public protests, as an example of the “much tougher” treatment of protesters by the “colleagues” of the Russian law enforcement officials “in the countries with the so-called established democracy.”
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That man blessed the unrepentant leaders of the most powerful network of child rapists and murderers seen in Europe since the days of the Nazis. To the best of my knowledge he never sought to apologise. Modesty is a way of understanding the world better, not ignoring it. How sad for Serbia that it had a spiritual leader who chose to look at his flock with two blind eyes.
To the previous commentor – Owen. It’s sad when someone with such little knowledge and outright biased views can so blatently comment with pure evil and stupidity. The Patriarch Pavle was a great man who cared deeply for his country and fellow man. Like so many other religious figures, he was not blessing evil and not promoting it either. He was not a soldier or politician. I don’t recall any other group or religion involved in the Balkan war apologising for their atrocities. There were many by all sides. I don’t recall the Croatians apologising for joing the Nazis and conducting ethnic cleansing on the Serbs. I didn’t hear about any Albanian group saying sorry for harvesting human organs from Serbs either. And you want to hear an apology from a religious figure because there was war? Did those other groups have no input from their religous representatives?
Mike,
I can’t speak for Owen, but I didn’t want to hear his apology. No, I wanted him to stop war mongering and I wanted him to stand up against rightist lunatics who took over the church.
Pavle was the patriarch during 1990′s – the time when the Church, of which HE was the leader, became a sanctuary for chauvinism, hate and war mongering.
Perhaps Pavle was modest in his personal life (and as it happens, he wasn’t THAT modest), but he was the leader and the Patriarch of the Church. You can’t deny it.