'Remember the Foreign Agents law in #Russia ? It targets NGOs and media organisations receiving funding from abroad. Interestingly one of the first things #Kostadinov did once getting into parliament last Autumn was to table a Foreign Agents Bill - which never became law..

#Bulgaria had agreed to build an extention to #TurkStream, a #Russian pipeline intended to deliver natural gas to the #Balkans and further to Western Europe. President #Putin reportedly wanted it completed by 2020.'

'Kostadin #Kostadinov is never far away from the headlines and has regularly shown a hostile attitude towards journalists.
This was one example that alarmed many journalists in #Bulgaria - at his party’s post election news conference last autumn - he requested, and I quote here, foreign agents media to leave the room. In other words, he explained, media that gets its funding from abroad. He called this #media the wastepipes of the American embassy. '

'there is one politician, his name is Kostadin #Kostadinov . He is the leader of the openly pro #Kremlin party called #Vazrazhdane or Revival in English. He is nicknamed #Kopeikin - after the small change of the #Russian currency. He is often invited in the media on the main television channels and he's repeating word for word Kremlin’s #narrative . Including calls for #Bulgaria to leave the #EU and #NATO '

'Yelena #Mitrofanova is #Russia 's ambassador to #Sofia Recently she caused a stir. Asked who she would vote for in the #Bulgarian elections, if she could, she replied: it would be Kostadin #Kostadinov He is the man headingman heading the pro-#Kremlin Revival party.

The Bulgarian foreign ministry came out with a special statement condemning what Mitrofanova had said.'

#Bulgaria
Kostadin #Kostadinov (#Vazrazhdane|Estrema destra russofila): “Questo non è un governo esperto... Non possiamo accettare un governo guidato da traditori nazionali che dovrebbero essere in galera.”

@OsservatorioEsteri