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\u201cYesterday, Kulezich (Bulgarian TV host \u2013 editor\u2019s note) nagged at me about an expensive watch, but there are really rich people in the country. They buy yachts, mansions; they travel. We will no longer repress the wealthy. When I travel around the country and see poor people, I cry. I have rich friends; they asked me to tell you that they, too, cry when they see the poor<\/i>,\u201d Nikolay Barekov before TV7 on January 27, 2014<\/p>\n

Photos, published by Bivol two years ago, show how Nikolay Barekov laments Bulgarian poor \u2013 in the company of his wealthy friends, on \u201cNikki Beach\u201d near Saint Tropez. The specialty of the house is pouring on each other champagne for 300 euros a bottle.<\/p>\n

Chocho Alexandrov<\/a>, Nessebar representative of VIS (one of the two most powerful crime groups in the 90s \u2013 editor\u2019s note) and Georgi Iliev\u2019s right hand, is seen among Barekov\u2019s wealthy friends. There is also Vlado Arabadzhiev \u2013 son of Plovdiv hotelier Vetko Arabadzhiev, a gangland shootings\u2019 hero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst the backdrop of total misery and despair engulfing the whole society; against the complete lack of freedom of speech and the criminal censorship imposed on media, a TV host soaks his ass in champagne at a place afforded only by The Chosen,\u201d Bivol wrote two years ago in an article entitled \u201cThe Ugly Face of Bulgarian Reality<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Barekov underwent a transformation \u2013 from being the ugly face of Bulgarian journalism, he became the equally-ugly face of Bulgarian politics. Barekov is a collective image of political puppets in Bulgaria such as his likes \u2013 populist Yane Yanev and extreme nationalist Volen Siderov. Behind these puppets the fat and ugly face of backstage political games peeks undisguised; games that sparked Bulgarians\u2019 protests persisting since June 14 until today.<\/p>\n

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