Bulgarian Prime Minister refused to meet with chess player Anatoly Karpov
Considered more loyal to Russia than his predecessor, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov refused to receive former world chess champion and Russian State Duma deputy Anatoly Karpov, who is in the country at the invitation of the Attack party, Russian Bulgaria reports.
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According to sources, Boyko Borisov decided not to meet with Karpov after his statement on BTV that everyone in Russia knows that the Cyrillic alphabet came from Byzantium. The meeting between Borisov and Karpov was supposed to take place today in the Ministerial Council, but after a statement from a State Duma deputy, the Bulgarian Prime Minister decided to cancel the meeting.
On air, Karpov, at the request of the presenter, commented on the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who in May, at a meeting with the President of Macedonia, said that Slavic writing came from the “Macedonian land.” This statement caused a colossal scandal in Bulgaria, where to this day a significant part of society continues to consider Macedonia part of the historical Bulgarian lands.
“It is absolutely clear that the Cyrillic alphabet came from Byzantium, and Byzantium is connected with Bulgaria. During Byzantium, Bulgaria was highly developed. Cyril and Methodius were Bulgarians, but Bulgaria was a large state. Cyril and Methodius are known in Russia, but if we talk about Macedonia, then Bulgaria then had a large territory. If you look at this from a historical point of view, today Bulgaria has become smaller, and Macedonia exists separately. The history of mankind is also presented separately. Today, the descendants of Alexander the Great live in Tajikistan. We need to connect modern history with yesterday's history. The Cyrillic alphabet came from the Balkans,” Karpov said.
Brothers Cyril and Methodius were born in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. It is almost impossible to establish the ethnicity of Cyril and Methodius in multinational Byzantium, although disputes on this issue continue to this day. According to one of the common versions, the Equal-to-the-Apostles brothers were of Greek origin. In the XNUMXth century, Slavic scholars defended their Slavic origins based on their excellent command of the Slavic language. Bulgarian tradition calls the brothers Bulgarians (to which the Macedonian Slavs were also counted until the twentieth century)
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