Russia’s Ambassador: Bulgaria is Rewriting its History

Relations between Bulgaria and Russia are at the lowest level for the entire post-socialist period, the Russian ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova said in an interview with TASS.

"Today, the level of our bilateral relations is the lowest for the entire post-socialist period. Official contacts are purely situational, Bulgarian colleagues call if they need something, and ours most often ignore them. There is not even an exchange of views on current issues of the international agenda. A large number of politicians and media try to connect everything negative that happens in Bulgaria with Russia, explaining the emerging problems with 'strong Russian influence', and in criminal cases they look for 'Russian traces'. However, all this is fiction , an effort to impose on Bulgarian citizens an extremely negative image of Russia. It seems to me that this has not yet been achieved, sociological surveys show that 65% of citizens have a positive attitude towards our country. The strongest vaccine against negative attitudes is our common history - it still works, but time will tell if it will continue to work with the change of generations," said Mitrofanova.

Bulgarian politicians are doing the West's bidding by trying to rewrite history and cancel everything related to Russia, the Russian ambassador pointed out.

According to her, in Sofia they are trying to review the events of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, after which Bulgaria returned to the political map of the world, by canceling the status of a national holiday - the Liberation Day of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke, which is celebrated on March 3.

"The attempt to introduce amendments to the constitution, to change the national holiday, is connected with the current...