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The situation is a lot worse in post-soviet countries in the EU like Bulgaria and Romania. When the regime fell the same people who ruled during that era staged
by blumkvist 12y ago
The situation is a lot worse in post-soviet countries in the EU like Bulgaria and Romania. When the regime fell the same people who ruled during that era staged everything so they remained in power. From political and official power to power through capital and corruption.
A known mafia boss (Delyan Peevski) has control of over 50% of the newspapers and 80% of the distribution of all newspapers through another company.
All the attorney generals of Bulgaria have been obviously corrupt, having dinners with prominent mafia bosses on yachts, etc. Everything in the judiciary system is made corrupt by design. All forms of opposition are crushed in infancy either by propaganda, intimidation or infiltrating the opposing organization and breaking it from the inside.
It's HELL. We don't know what to do. When we think the situation can't be any more dire, another, greater scandal is already looming. It's depressing and crushing.
- bayesianhorse 12y agoEmmigrate to Germany...
- lispm 12y agoI doubt that Bulgaria and Romania are 'a lot worse'. The situation in Russia is quite bad. The free press index lists Russia quite a bit behind Bulgaria or Romania... http://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf http://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf
- markvdb 12y agoAccording to Reporters Without Vorders, the press situation seems to be significantly better in the Baltics [1]. There was a bit more of a real change of parties in power over there I guess. Estonia in particular seems to be doing the best, better than Ireland, Belgium, Luxemburg and Swiztzerland. But if the RSF metrics are to believed, all the Baltics seem to perform significantly better than countries like Spain, the UK, France, the US or Italy... [1] http://index.rsf.org http://index.rsf.org