30 November 2021 BOLD (Bulgarians Organising for Liberal Democracy) unites citizens who want Bulgaria to be a society with democratic governance and a pluralistic political system…
OPEN LETTER
We bring to your attention an open letter signed by citizens on the initiative of BOLD (Bulgarian Organizing for Liberal Democracy). The letter expresses the positions of the signatories in their individual capacity.
Join BOLD
Hoping that you sympathize with the cause of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC), at this point we, the BHC, invite you to apply to join BOLD, our community of registered supporters working for the protection of human rights and…
Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Independent Intellectual Inquiry
The National Endowment for Democracy has released a report investigating the compromising effects of…
Dropping the Democractic Facade
A report from Freedom House, looks at the breaking of the democratic consensus across Central Europe and the Balkans…
Of Course They Gave Up on Democracy
Today’s political crisis is of the West’s own making. “It is a paradox of democracy,” the historian Jill Lepore recently wrote, “that the best way to defend democracy is…
An open letter of justice and an open debate
One hundred and fifty university professors, writers and activists signed an open letter to Harpers Magazine to present their concern that “a new set of moral attitudes and political affiliations” […]
Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty In this classic 1958 study, Berlin advocates more precise and nuanced political terminology, in which the superficially understood concept of freedom […]
The Protests of Summer 2020 and What Comes Afterwards
The Bulgarian Community for Liberal Democracy (BOLD) is guided by the shared vision of its members for a society with democratic governance and a pluralistic political system in which
What does “the age-old malice of the slave”* mean today?
In the discussion club Marginalia the social psychologist Rumen Petrov talks with the human rights activist Dimitrina Petrova and Antoniy Todorov
