The aggressor’s propaganda has been savoring the latest show of the Russian special services held in occupied Crimea for the last few days, the so-called “international festival” “Bulgarian meetings”, with the main “talking head” in the form of Ivan Abazher.
In addition to demonstrating to the public a group of so-called “journalists, scientists, writers, public figures”, through Abazher the occupiers announced the creation of a “federal cultural autonomy of Bulgarians” as another “Balkan toy” of the Russian special services.
The occupiers did not bring any of the parliamentary Bulgarian politicians, including the galaxy of local “builders of the Russian world”, to Crimea, and the “professors and public figures” they showed were quite typical.
In particular, these are the pro-Russian professors of the Sofia’s University of Library Science and Information Technology Vanya Dobreva and Svetlana Sharenkova, who were expelled from the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2023. Dobreva was previously a member of parliament, and has now become a functionary of the pro-Russian structure “Russophiles” of Nikolai Malinov, whom we described earlier.
Sharenkova is also the chairperson of the “Bulgaria-Russia” forum, as well as the criminal structure “Friends of Crimea” from the Russian special services. Dobreva is also a member of the leadership of the “Strategic Institute for National Policy and Ideas” created in 2022, as another pro-Russian structure.
Another “Crimean guest” has been declared from this “institute”, Hristo Monov, a former agent of the socialist special services of Bulgaria with the pseudonym “Gogov”, also included by the Russian special services in the aforementioned “Russophiles”.
In addition, former parliamentary deputy from the socialists, and now pro-Russian propagandist Strahil Angelov, was brought to Crimea.
At the October elections to the Bulgarian parliament, Angelov was declared an observer from a certain structure “Principal Question” (“Vpros na princip”) and he owns the intermediary company “Monte Carlo” from Sofia.
Also noted on the occupied peninsula were the full-time propagandist of the aggressor from the semi-fake structure “Narodno edinenie” Hristo Marinov, as well as Stefan Georgiev, who in May 2024 was declared the head of the city organization of the “Youth Union of the Bulgarian Socialist Party” in Plovdiv, the owner of the local company “Hukka Armi”.
Propaganda statements were also broadcast by the “Bulgarian political scientist and international analyst” Stanislav Mladenov from Kazan. From Moldova, Russian special services brought “especially valuable cargo” in the form of a local journalist of Bulgarian origin, Evilina Shvidchenko, editor of the program “Unda Bugeacului” (“On the Budzhak Wave”) of the company “Teleradio-Moldova”
Thus, Russian special services demonstrated a fairly wide, albeit mostly marginal spectrum of their Bulgarian agents, declared by local propaganda as “the key to our Balkans”. What will happen next with such criminal plans of the Kremlin – the near future will show.
