It is with anxiety and anger that we are following the events in Pirogov Hospital, the largest hospital in Bulgaria. It is already difficult enough to protest in this country, but in recent days we have been facing unprecedented repression against the Bulgarian Nurses’ Union (SBMS) and its branch in Pirogov.
Read MoreOn the 24th of November 2016 in Bulgaria a »Law for the amending and supplementing of the Law which declares the communist regime in Bulgaria as criminal« was voted upon in first reading, which among other things provocatively provides for the prohibition of the use and placement of communist symbols and the removal of symbols, slogans, photographs, signs and other marks or objects from the years of socialism from public spaces or, if it is not possible to remove them immediately, the placement of a sign on these which will…
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