Wednesday, January 14, 2009

In Sofia, protesters clashed with police.

In front of the Bulgarian parliament in Sofia on January 14, protesters clashed with police, said AFP.
As a result, 23 people, including six policemen, were injured. The protesters demanded the resignation of the Government of Bulgaria in relation to its inefficiency and corruption.
According to the agency, a rally that began peacefully gathered around a thousand people. Then in the crowd appeared nationalists and football fans, who began pelted police with stones and snowballs. They tried to break through the barrage cordon outside the parliament.
Police arrested 53 people, including 15-year-old boy, who had seized three improvised explosive devices.
According to the AFP, this protest was the first to Bulgaria, which was organized not by political parties or trade unions, but by the citizens via the Internet.
Earlier, a similar rally was held in Riga. In the course of it also sounded the requirements for the management of Latvia to resign.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev is currently in Moscow, where his talks on deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine.

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