Nikola’s blog
Where I share what I’m reading and thinking about. Mostly politics, conflict, and history. Here’s the latest:
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Michelin snubs Sofia’s restaurant scene
0Sofia has not made the cut for the Michelin Guide after this year’s inspection, though how final that verdict is depends on who you ask. The Michelin Guide itself started as a marketing gimmick. French tire makers André and Édouard Michelin launched it in 1900, handing it out free to the roughly 3,000 motorists in…
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The two chairs
0Rumen Radev is trying to sit on two chairs at once, and so far he’s managed to annoy the people holding both of them. In Paris, Radev declined Macron’s invitation to the Coalition of the Willing and declared Bulgaria doesn’t belong in a format that keeps arming Ukraine. A day later his foreign minister backed…
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GERB wants a national ID app to “protect” your kids
0Opposition party GERB has proposed banning social media for anyone under 16, with a mandatory “digital wallet” app to verify every user’s age before they can even sign up. Miss the age cut and your account gets shut down, VPN or not. MP Kostadin Angelov is calling it protection from a “digital addiction.” Starting with…
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