This week: The great awakening and hopes for agrarian reforms

Good day on Sunday! At the end of the year, we can do nothing more than wish that the next year and the next half of this decade will be better. Perhaps because bad news in the media always leads and brings more stress than we can bear, two national events in 2025 were like a powerful flash of sunlight, briefly breaking through the dark clouds of everyday life. Although our volleyball team won a silver medal in the Philippines, we took it as gold. We celebrated it as gold, drank to it, bore it as if these boys were our own children. We rejoiced because the victory was honest and because behind it stood a lot of effort, will, and talent, and one of the best third-place finishes in Europe. Then we just told ourselves that there is hope for Bulgaria – always the poorest, with broken streets and sidewalks, with towns and villages without water and back and forth – with flooded houses after heavy rains and with smoking mountains; with a series of uninvestigated corruption cases, with ...