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Je présente mes excuses au lecteurs francophones à qui ce mail est copié.
Il m'est apparu que l'importance des documents présentés et le sujet
considéré le méritaient.<br>
jfc<br>
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Nikola, Milton,<br>
The letter of Nikola and the answer of Milton are serious points worth to
careful consideration. Thank you, in particular at a time the French
Government wants to introduce a similar legislation to the Bulgarian one
(they all more or less copy and adapt Patriot Act).<br><br>
I do not think ISOC makes any mystery about this. ISOC consider they are
the owner of the IETF which has "strong participation from the
computing, networking, and telecommunications industries, from companies
large and small"
<a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/membership/orgwhyjoin/membership2.pdf">
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/membership/orgwhyjoin/membership2.pdf</a>, where
ISOC "Platinum Sponsorship Program allows companies to specifically
designate areas or projects to be supported in the fields of
Standards".<br><br>
I currently oppose at key IETF/WG-IDNABIS that reading of the IETF by
some IETF/ISOC preeminent persons. However, I think the best way to
oppose is to build aside and make the two resulting stakeholders to
cooperate. This is why I first introduced the Internet Users Contributing
Group (<a href="http://iucg.org/" eudora="autourl">http://iucg.org</a>
and its main iucg@ietf.org mailing list) to permit users to contribute to
the technology they use. I also have introduced the
<a href="http://isoc-ipv6.org/" eudora="autourl">http://isoc-ipv6.org</a>
open proposition of a "usage oriented IPv6" ISOC Chapter : at
this stage ISOC Secretariat said they did not wish to support it because
there already is an effort by them to support the "technical
IPv6" (IMHO the lack of IPv6 development comes from this
misunderstanding between a technical need and a user lack of information
and documented need).<br><br>
My idea is that the more the users (the Chapter should represent) can be
active or even leading at ISOC the best it is and the more ISOC can
really represent everyone.<br>
jfc<br><br>
<br>
At 19:41 30/05/2009, Milton L Mueller wrote:<br>
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<font size=2 color="#0000FF">Nikola:<br>
It is good to know that there is an independent group of Bulgarian
Internet users. <br>
<br>
ISOC has a rather checkered history when it comes to defending rights of
individuals on the Internet. While there are many strong supporters of
Internet freedom in its ranks, as well as dedicated technical veterans of
the highest caliber, its international organizational staff and business
connections often lead it in strange directions. And as they become more
interconnected with authoritative Internet governance institutions, ISOC
often pursues agendas that are....puzzling, to put it mildly. It is
useful to recall in this context ISOC's role in promoting the discredited
gTLD-MoU, which would have put WIPO and the ITU in a key governance role,
and would have allowed WIPO and INTA to have almost untrammeled authority
over resolving domain name trademark disputes. ICANN's UDRP, with all its
flaws, was quite liberal compared to what ISOC, WIPO, INTA and ITU cooked
up for us a dozen years ago. <br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>Milton Mueller<br>
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies<br>
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology<br>
------------------------------<br>
Internet Governance Project:<br>
<a href="http://internetgovernance.org/">http://internetgovernance.org</a>
<br>
</font> </blockquote> <br>
At 18:41 30/05/2009, Nikola Geshev wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hello,<br>
Yesterday a letter from people of the Bulgarian Internet community was
sent to ISOC.<br>
You may be intereted to read it.<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Nikola Geshev<br>
Bulgarian Internet Users Group<br><br>
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<br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Ms. Lynn St Amour<br>
President/CEO of ISOC <br>
Dear Ms. Amour,<br>
We would like to bring to your attention the issue that in a public
press-conference on May, 24<sup>th</sup>, Mr. Veni Markovski, head of the
Bulgarian chapter of Internet Society (ISOC) for more than 12 years and
also an ICANN employee, announced that ISOC Bulgaria supports the
candidates of “Coalition for Bulgaria” (leading party is Bulgarian
Socialist Party) for the upcoming elections for European parliament in
Bulgaria. (We attach many newspaper reports and web links in section III
of the appendix. In Section V of the appendix you may find some reactions
of the members of ISOC Bulgaria.)<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">We are taken aback by the support of ISOC
Bulgaria for a political party. Shouldn't all ISOC chapters be
politically neutral? We do not deny the right of Mr. Veni Markovski to
support personally any candidate for the upcoming elections, only his
right to cast an ISOC branch as a supporter for one.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">In addition, the current ruling coalition in
Bulgaria, lead by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, took some actions that
were highly unpopular among the Bulgarian Internet users:
<ul>
<li>In 2008, The State Agency for Information technologies (whose advisor
is Mr. Markovski) and the Ministry of Interior affairs tried to introduce
a Decree that would enforce all Internet providers in Bulgaria to collect
and store for a long period practically complete, and personally
identifiable information about anything done by all Internet users (eg.
the sites they visited, the e-mails they wrote etc.) According to the
Decree, the police would be able to access all of this information at any
time, without the need for a court order or an explanation why they might
need it, without leaving any trace that it was accessed, and without
informing the Internet users that they are, or have been tracked.
<li>The proposed decree met the strong opposition of the Bulgarian
Internet community. The minister of Interior affairs, Mr. Mihail Mikov
wanted to make this a reality and added the texts in a law for the
amendment of “Law for electronic messages”. When the Bulgarian parliament
overthrew the proposed law, Mr. Mikov insisted for an re-vote. The law
was put by the ruling coalition, headed by BSP, for re-vote four times
(which is also against the Bulgarian constitution). See part IV. of the
attached appendix for more information.
<li>Strangely enough, Mr. Mikov is a member of the Internet Society in
Bulgaria, as well as other government oficials who are members of BSP.
<li>More information about the mentioned cases is available from the
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee:
</font>
<a href="http://www.bghelsinki.org/index.php?module=news&lg=en&id=1099">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.bghelsinki.org/index.php?module=news&lg=en&id=1099</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans"> or from an online newspaper here:
</font><a href="http://tinyurl.com/qrjpq9">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>http://tinyurl.com/qrjpq9</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans"> ,
</font><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ot5duv" eudora="autourl">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>http://tinyurl.com/ot5duv</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans"> ,
</font><a href="http://tinyurl.com/oqo6xk">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>http://tinyurl.com/oqo6xk</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans"> ,
</font><a href="http://tinyurl.com/qdjv74" eudora="autourl">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>http://tinyurl.com/qdjv74</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans"> and
</font><a href="http://tinyurl.com/p88ba6">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>http://tinyurl.com/p88ba6</a>
</u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Several pan-European watchdogs have reported
in recent years that the current Bulgarian Government is the most corrupt
in the European Union (See Section II from the attached Appendix). The
National Security agency, which is subservient to the Bulgarian prime
minister closed an Internet website that was spreading information about
corruption. You can find more information from “Reporters without
Borders” here:
</font><a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28543">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28543</a></u></font>
</ul><font face="DejaVu Sans">We would like to know whether ISOC supports
the position of Mr. Markovski, and seconds his support for parties that
strive to implement this type of legislation.<br>
In case that ISOC doesn't support such positions, we would also like to
know whether their dissent will be only verbal, or will be backed by
actions.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>Bulgarian Internet Users Group<br>
</b>Attachments:<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>I. Articles from “Reporters Without
Borders”<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Bulgaria - World Report 2009<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31015">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31015</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Bulgaria - Annual Report 2008<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25469">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25469</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">3. Former interior minister says “spineless”
journalist should be “hit”<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29263">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29263</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">4. Threats against Frognews stepped up. Censored
website Opasnite.net reappears on Opasnite.eu <br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28755">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28755</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">5. Vicious assault on editor of Frog News <br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28692">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28692</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">6. Security agency closes corruption
whistle-blower website<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28543">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28543</a><br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>II. Bulgaria is the most corrupt country in
the European Union, according to the Transparency International <br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/report-unveils-eu-corrupt-countries/article-175668">
http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/report-unveils-eu-corrupt-countries/article-175668</a>
<br>
</u></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>III. Newspaper articles that mention the ISOC
Bulgaria support for “Coalition for Bulgaria”<br>
</b></font>
<ol>
<li>“<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>Duma” newspaper</b></font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Original:
</font><a href="http://www.duma.bg/2009/0509/250509/bulgaria/bul-5.html">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.duma.bg/2009/0509/250509/bulgaria/bul-5.html</a></u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Archive:
</font><a href="http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112957">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112957</a></u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Partial translation:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society supports “Coalition for
Bulgaria”
<li>“We support the list of Coalition for Bulgaria for the European
elections, because they are the politicians who work to protect the
interests of Internet users.” It was said by the chairman of the
organization "Internet Society in Bulgaria - Veni Markovski. ... “It
is important to support politicians who share our values and defend the
idea of using the Cyrillic alphabet in the virtual space”, also stressed
Markovski and thanked the Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, who is a
member for years of the Internet Society. </font>
</ol>
</ol>
<li>“<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>Monitor” newspaper</b></font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Archive:
</font><a href="http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112935">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112935</a></u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Partial translation:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">The support of the Internet Society in
Bulgaria for “Coalition for Bulgaria” for the European parliament
elections was presented personally by the President of the Governing
Board of the organization, Veni Markovski. According to him, it is
important to support politicians who share the values of the organization
to use the Internet without restrictions and to protect the rights of
consumers. Markovski added that Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and
President of the State Agency for Information Technologies and
Communications Plamen Vachkov also enjoy the support of the Internet
Society in Bulgaria.</font>
</ol>
</ol>
<li>“<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>Novinar” newspaper</b></font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Original:
</font>
<a href="http://www.novinar.net/?act=news&act1=det&stat=center&mater=Mjk1Mzs2MQ">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.novinar.net/?act=news&act1=det&stat=center&mater=Mjk1Mzs2MQ</a>
</u></font><font face="DejaVu Sans">==</font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Archive:
</font><a href="http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112952">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.pressboard.info/Preview.aspx?articleid=112952</a></u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Partial translation:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Yesterday, the Internet Society - Bulgaria
issued a statement that supports the list of the Coalition for Bulgaria
and its candidates in elections to the European Parliament.
<li>Cause the organization to stand behind the red party was that
Stanishev shared values of society and the internet worked on consumer
protection in the virtual space. Close relationship between the
organization and the prime minister date for quite some years. During the
celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Internet Society - Bulgaria in
2006, Stanishev attended as special guest. </font>
</ol>
</ol>
<li>“<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>Vsekiden” online edition</b></font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Original:
</font><a href="http://www.vsekiden.com/?p=51400">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.vsekiden.com/?p=51400</a></u></font>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Partial translation:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society - Bulgaria supports the
list of Coalition for Bulgaria for the elections to the European
Parliament (EP). This was said at a press conference by Veni Markovski,
Chairman of the Board of the organization. It is important to support
politicians who share the values of the Internet Society - Bulgaria to
use the Internet without restrictions and protection of consumer rights,
explained Markovski. He added that the Prime Minister and President of
BSP Sergey Stanishev and President of the State Agency for Information
Technologies and Communications Plamen Vachkov also enjoy the support of
the Internet Society in Bulgaria, which are members for years.</font>
</ol>
</ol>
</ol><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>5. “24 Chasa” newspaper<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Original:
</font><a href="http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=140197">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=140197</a><br>
</u></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Partial translation:<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society - Bulgaria supports the list of
Coalition for Bulgaria for the elections for the European Parliament
(EP), in which Ivaylo Kalfin and Christian Vigenin are included, BTA
reported.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">"It is important to support politicians who
share the values of the Internet Society - Bulgaria to use the Internet
without restrictions and protection of consumer rights, said President of
the organization Veni Markovski.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">He added that Sergey Stanishev and the President
of the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications
Plamen Vachkov also enjoy the support of the Internet Society in
Bulgaria, which are members for years. According to Ivaylo Kalfin,
Internet is free space, where one must respect the laws, but not to
impose restrictions.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>6. “Gradski” online newspaper<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Original:
</font><a href="http://www.gradski.bg/show.php?storyid=724067">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.gradski.bg/show.php?storyid=724067</a><br>
</u></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Partial translation:<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society - Bulgaria supports the list of
Coalition for Bulgaria for the elections to the European Parliament (EP),
in which Ivaylo Kalfin and Christian Vigenin participate. This was told
by Veni Markovski, Chairman of the Management Board of the
organization.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">It is important to support politicians who share
the values of the Internet Society - Bulgaria to use the Internet without
restrictions and protection of consumer rights. Prime Minister and
President of BSP Sergey Stanishev and President of the State Agency for
Information Technologies and Communications Plamen Vachkov also enjoy the
support of the Internet Society in Bulgaria, which are members for years,
explained Markovski.<br>
</font><br>
<br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>7. “Trud” newspaper<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Original:
</font><a href="http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=140199">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=140199</a><br>
</u></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Partial translation:<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society - Bulgaria stood behind
BSP<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Internet Society - Bulgaria supports the list of
Coalition for Bulgaria for the elections to the European Parliament (EP),
which Ivaylo Kalfin and Christian VIGENIN, BTA reported.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">"It is important to support politicians who
share the values of the Internet Society - Bulgaria to use the Internet
without restrictions and protection of consumer rights, said President of
the organization veins Markovski.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">He added that Sergey Stanishev and President of
the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications Plamen
Vachkov also enjoy the support of the Internet Society in Bulgaria, which
are members for years. According to Ivaylo Kalfin Internet is free space,
which must respect the laws, but not to impose restrictions.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>IV. Articles about actions of the current
ruling coalition in Bulgaria:<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1.</font>
<a href="http://dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2009/04/09/702570_parlamentut_othvurli_promenite_za_bezkontrolnoto/">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2009/04/09/702570_parlamentut_othvurli_promenite_za_bezkontrolnoto/</a>
<br>
</u></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Translation:<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">“By 74 votes in favor, 78 against and 3
abstentions, the parliament rejected amendments to the Law on electronic
communications, providing the Ministry of Interior affairs an
uncontrolled access to data from the Internet and telephone printouts. In
the original vote on the amendment there were 89 MPs for, 74 against and
six abstained, so the amendments would have passed on first reading. The
president of the internal committee, Mincho Spasov (NMS), however called
and asked for a re-vote to save "the visit of this law in the
Constitutional Court.” In the re-vote, after the cards of the absent MPs
were gathered, the texts were rejected.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">This way the fourth consecutive attempt to
provide special services to obtain traffic data without the permission of
the judge failed. In November 2008, the Supreme Administrative Court
(SAC) repeal the ordinance 40 as unconstitutional, which under the very
vast wording "for the operational-search activity" Interior
Ministry could take the information and with so-called passive access to
servers through a computer terminal, so as not to impose even send a
request to the mobile and internet operators.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">In February the parliament even rejected a
request of special services for a similar law that again would eliminate
the requirement for the information to be obtained with the authorization
of a judge and an indication of the grounds for the request. Then a check
of “Dnevnik” newspaper showed that that the text that include the law of
the Interior ministry is added in the proposal, but is unclear by whom,
although the Parliamentary commission of Transport did not vote for it at
all. After lengthy discussions MPs rejected this attempt to smoothly
track the data and decided to receive only the detection of serious
crimes and have a sanction of a judge.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Already in the next few days interior ministry
leadership reacted strongly to the changes and announced that it would be
prevented from working on the hot track of crimes that do not keep
serious as child pornography for example. They insisted that the work of
the special services is seriously slowed by the need to obtain court
authorization. Politicians replied that in emergency, data can be
collected without the permission of a judge and then 24 hours later is
necessary to obtain such a sanction.<br>
</font><br>
<br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">However, only twenty days after the decision of
the parliament, the Interior Ministry has initiated changes in the law on
electronic communications and by members of the BSP, MRF and independent
submit them to parliament. They provide passive access to information
through the interface and again to cast their need for operational-search
activity. Changes caused serious disputes in parliament on the Committee
on Transport include consideration of changes in its agenda an
extraordinary and although its chairman Yordan Mirchev (NMS) and the
opposition left, the BSP and the MRF supported the text. The Commission's
decision was challenged, but the leadership allow him to parliament for
consideration in plenary.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Subsequently, the parliamentary committees of
internal ordern and European integration rejected the amendments. As they
have a negative opinion of the parliamentary department responsible for
the coordination of legislation with the European Union. The Ombudsman
also objected.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">National Assembly Chairman Georgi Pirinski (BSP)
a few days ago also agreed that we must find a right balance between the
rights of citizens and the need not to hamper the work of the Ministry.
He told the opponents of the change that will help texts to be edited so
that no one could track people without control. According to him, and
according to the opposition and NMS, very suspect sought data records for
telephone and Internet traffic prints - 330 000 records per year for 40
000 persons.”<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>V. Articles about ISOC Bulgaria members
disagreement with the statement by Mr. Markovski<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>1. “Trud” newspaper<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Original:
</font><a href="http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=142971">
<font face="DejaVu Sans" color="#000080"><u>
http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=142971</a><br>
</u></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Partial translation: <br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">Members of the Internet Society - Bulgaria
expressed outrage and perplexity, because of the support for the list of
the BSP for the European elections, claimed by Veni Markovski - Member of
the Management Board of the organization. This was published in a press
report from the Blue coalition.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">This position is expressed in an open letter to
the Board of Internet Society - Bulgaria, signed by Ivan Kostov,
Ekaterina Mihailova, Dimo Gyaurov and Ivo Tsanev.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">The letter states that in the formulation of
political support for the BSP, ISOC Bulgaria and Veni Markovski did not
sought the views of members of the organization.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">"We consider inadmissible association
called upon to protect the interests of Internet users to associate
itself with the party, known for trying to restrict information rights
and freedoms in Bulgaria," says the letter.<br>
</font><br><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans"><b>2. “Dnevnik” newspaper<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Sans">1. Original:
</font>
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<font face="DejaVu Sans">2. Partial translation:<br>
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<font face="DejaVu Sans">Representatives of the "Blue
coalition" protest against the support of the Internet Society
Bulgaria to the list of BSP<br>
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<font face="DejaVu Sans">Representatives of the Blue coalition protest
against support for the BSP list for European elections, claimed by the
member of the Governing Board of the Internet Society Veni
Markovski.<br>
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<font face="DejaVu Sans">In an open letter to the Board of Internet
Society – Bulgaria, Ivan Kostov, Ekaterina Mihaylova (DSB), and Ivo Dimo
Gyaurov Tsanev (UDF) expressed "indignation and perplexity" of
the actions of Markovski. Categorically say that in the formulation of
political support for the BSP by Mr. Markovski has not sought the views
of members of the organization. It is inadmissible for an association
called upon to protect the interests of Internet users to associate
itself with the party, known for trying to limited information rights and
freedoms in Bulgaria.</font></blockquote></body>
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