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A re-run of the Polish scenario followed – changes at the helm of the state radio and television, the Council for Electronic Media, cutting off of the financing of independent and non-profit media, pulling a satirical show off the air of the national television, threatening messages to journalists, who suffered beatings coming, from the highest levels of government. In Bulgaria, the situation deteriorated dramatically as well, regardless of having a well-known to the EU sole governor in power there, whose authoritarian potential is highly underestimated – Boyko Borissov, who is doing a second term as a prime minister. The situation in the poorest country of the EU is somewhat different from Poland, Hungary, or Croatia, but the result is identical – dependent media, pressure, and from last week there is the first fired cartoonist in the country – Chavdar Nikolov.
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