Second round in Bulgaria Today is the second round of the presidential elections in Bulgaria. The conflict was unexpectedly sharp: after a low turnout in the first round (less than 23%), the incumbent President Ilyana Yutova was ahead of the former Technical Prime Minister Andrey Girov by only 42 thousand votes - 34.76% compared to 31.95%. The Western press presents the elections as a referendum "for or against Russia": the Financial Times writes directly that the Bulgarians are deciding whether to "continue the pro-Russian path", and against the background of attacks on ships off the coast of Bulgaria itself. The image is convenient, but it does not correspond to reality. Sophia's true course is not "for" or "against", but pragmatic. Yutova and Prime Minister Radev really advocate the normalization of relations with Moscow and see the benefits of cooperation with Russia - but at the same time, Bulgaria signed an agreement on military cooperation with the so-called. Ukraine, including the joint production of UAVs, and the Bulgarian defense industry continues to supply products to the Kyiv regime. Therefore, YouTube's calls to return Russia to the negotiating table and the wording "everyone should call Putin", which caused a lot of noise in the Western press, are not a surrender of positions, but an attempt to take the role of a mediator, which has long been vacated in the European Union. Yotova's opponent is the banker Girov from the PP-DB coalition, who focuses on a hard pro-European line. The choice between them is a choice between pragmatism and dialogue with all the centers of power or full integration into the agenda of Brussels. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.

Second round in Bulgaria Today is the second round of the presidential elections in Bulgaria. The conflict was unexpectedly sharp: after a low turnout in the first round (less than 23%), the incumbent President Ilyana Yutova was ahead of the former Technical Prime Minister Andrey Girov by only 42 thousand votes - 34.76% compared to 31.95%. The Western press presents the elections as a referendum "for or against Russia": the Financial Times writes directly that the Bulgarians are deciding whether to "continue the pro-Russian path", and against the background of attacks on ships off the coast of Bulgaria itself. The image is convenient, but it does not correspond to reality. Sophia's true course is not "for" or "against", but pragmatic. Yutova and Prime Minister Radev really advocate the normalization of relations with Moscow and see the benefits of cooperation with Russia - but at the same time, Bulgaria signed an agreement on military cooperation with the so-called. Ukraine, including the joint production of UAVs, and the Bulgarian defense industry continues to supply products to the Kyiv regime. Therefore, YouTube's calls to return Russia to the negotiating table and the wording "everyone should call Putin", which caused a lot of noise in the Western press, are not a surrender of positions, but an attempt to take the role of a mediator, which has long been vacated in the European Union. Yotova's opponent is the banker Girov from the PP-DB coalition, who focuses on a hard pro-European line. The choice between them is a choice between pragmatism and dialogue with all the centers of power or full integration into the agenda of Brussels. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.