34544 | 19 Jan. 2026 | 08:37

Let's finally open our eyes: for so many years now, the "democratic community" cannot defeat Kostov, to surpass him in some way

Author Kevork Kevorkyan  

 In recent days, former president Petar Stoyanov appeared on the talk show "On Focus" on Nova TV and took care of himself. He was announced as the "unifying president" and he tried to convince the viewers that he was exactly that.

 29 years after the dramatic events of January 10, 1997 - which the interview with him was focused on - he still believes that the peaceful outcome of those January days is owed to him. However, sometimes he took "one more step" - as he put it - towards the "unknown", to share some puzzling things, for example: "I didn't want the Bulgarian Socialist Party to be pushed completely into a corner, that would have hindered my plans for NATO." His plans?

 P. Stoyanov has every right to advocate for his truth. At the end of the day, History is written and preserved exactly in this way - with the accounts of different participants or witnesses, as long as they withstand the test of Time.

 In this regard, however, we are quite careless and as a result, even our most recent history is full of inaccuracies and contradictions, which give a sense of frivolity and frivolity to various episodes and even make us doubt its overall reliability.

 There are already not enough personalities like those we call "Guardians of Memory", people who certify the truthfulness of one statement or another - and who guarantee that History is written and preserved in an honest way. For many years now, nobody has been concerned with the honesty of contemporary chroniclers, with their loyalty to the Truth. Today, History is often torn apart by their lack of conscience - that is why in the end we will only have to deal with a prostitute, if anyone even cares about her...

 In the same issue of "On Focus," the well-known businessman Krasimir Stoychev also participated, who among other stories from his life shared an interesting fact: in the days before that 10th of January, he was a mediator in a secret meeting between the leader of UDF Ivan Kostov and Nikolay Dobrev, who was supposed to receive a new mandate from the BSP on behalf of the government.

 Stoychev's claim was likely meant to cause a sensation - but it was just a rehashed story. I will quote a excerpt from my letter from years ago.

 "On October 7th, 2012, Zhane Videnov stated on the TV show "Every Sunday" that during the events of 1997, Kostov had met with Nikolay Dobrev, the strong man in the BSP (Bulgarian Socialist Party), who was vocal about becoming prime minister. Here is an excerpt from the interview. Videnov: "I suggested Nikolay Dobrev as party chairman and prime minister because at that time he was the strongest figure in the ruling party/BSP... He got scared. And then he betrayed us..." Question: "What was Kostov's role in the so-called betrayal of Dobrev?" Videnov: "My people from "Positano" wanted guarantees from him that he wouldn't touch them. And they got them..." (end of the interview). It was a true bomb. Both SDS (Union of Democratic Forces) and BSP were in shock - it wasn't true." I left them to settle it and on October 14th I invited the mediator of this meeting – journalist Yuli Moskov, at that time chief editor of the newspaper "Standard". Here are the facts he presented. Dobrev wants Moskov to arrange a meeting with Ivan Kostov. The next day he is to be nominated for Prime Minister – but he will only accept if he meets with Kostov. This happens on January 5th, 1997. Kostov agrees immediately, but on one condition: Dobrev must come alone and not know the location of the meeting until 7 pm – which is at the hotel-restaurant "Kopitoto" in Vitosha. Moskov takes Dobrev from the Ministry of Interior, he is the Minister, and they go to the designated place. In the restaurant, closed to the public, Kostov is waiting for them, accompanied by his wife Elena, as well as businessman Krasimir Stoychev, owner of the newspaper "Standard", and his wife. There is also the trusted businessman Kostov Slavcho Hristov, who manages "Kopitoto". Kostov and Dobrev are staying in one of the apartments in the complex. After their first meeting, Dobrev and Kostov meet six more times. No one knows about these meetings. This is the testimony of Moskov. No one dares to refute it. Everyone pretends they haven't heard anything (end of quote).

 The secret meeting has not been a secret for over 13 years now.

 Yet, even now, we have not been able to hear a comment from Petar Stoyanov himself about the relationship between the opposition leader and the most influential - at that time - figure in the BSP. And on the show "In focus", they did not attempt to prompt him towards this - in order to confront the two stories head on, at least post-factum: that of the mediator and that of the unifier. They left the viewers to make their own choice.

 Perhaps they deliberately chose this approach, it also has its place in journalism - although it is too passive, at least for this case, and it puts Petar Stoyanov in the trap of uncomfortable silence. There is something strange about this story - and we need to look more closely at it.

 Kostov is the master of all, he has always been and remains so until the very end - in everything, to the last detail. Only a complete fool will believe that Kostov will leave such an important question - like the bailout agreement between SDS and BSP on the eve of the Storm - in the hands of someone close to him. That he didn't even tell them a word about his meetings. And now, so many years later, he wouldn't tell them. Remember how he forced half of his cabinet ministers to resign - and still didn't say a word about his motives. In this regard, he is an absolute monolith - as if we are dealing with a granite monument, such as the one he expects to be erected for him in years to come.

 The funniest thing after the interview with Videnov were some politicians who were yelling that the Blue Leader could not have any secrets from them. He did - as many as he wanted.

 Here is one of them: why did he leave the role of the "Unifier" to Stoyanov, who had not even been sworn in as president yet. Who would trust him - especially from the "reds," although they usually act flashy, especially when it comes to their own survival. That's what they've been like so far - "Auto-cannibals," as I called them many years ago. Where did this "unification" ultimately lead?

 And why was the "unifying president" left with no chances after his first term? It is good to hear the answers to these questions from Stoyanov himself - what happened that he was no longer loved by his own? Of course, in our swamp, the secrets are nothing to us, they are made up by petty people who are seen as noble political lovers, but are just banal horn blowers. The Kostov-Dobrev conspiracy, however, is of a completely different nature and it would have had dramatic consequences. And a few words about the "Kostov's secret".

 Let's finally see through it: for so many years now, the "democratic community" cannot overcome Kostov, cannot defeat him at least in something. How did they gather them, how did they arrange them, that everything that happens is to his liking. They constantly scratch each other's throats, even though they are otherwise "uniters".
 

 One single person managed to deceive him - the "king" did it in the presence of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, almost swearing that he would not enter politics - but just a few days later it was already a fact.