International Media

Bulgaria, with the worst press freedom record in EU, is to take over presidency in January. According to the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders [RSF], Bulgaria is the worst country in the EU country in terms of press freedom. In the last rankings it stands at a dismal 109th position out of 179 in the 2017 Press Freedom Index. This puts it on a par with Bolivia, Gabon and Paraguay.On January 1, Sofia will take over the rotating presidency of the European Union, but will it clean up its act?On August 24, 2017, journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva was fired by her newspaper. As a reporter for the mass-circulation Trud [“Labor”] daily, she had published a story outlining allegations that massive amounts of US, Saudi and Bulgarian weapons were shipped by the Azerbaijani Silk Way airline to Syria.Weapons to SyriaUltimately, the arms ended up in the hands of jihadists related to Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front.Gaytandzhieva was the first to use leaked documents in Russian, English and Bulgarian, published by Anonymou