Anti-government street protests are not just a feature of countries abutting the Mediterranean—they’ve now taken root in one on the Black Sea. In February, protesters in Bulgaria, an Eastern European nation of 7 million people, succeeded in toppling the country’s center-right government. And now, like their Egyptian counterparts, the Bulgarian protesters are trying to oust a second government in short order. Over the past 40 days, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in an attempt to force out the current, Socialist-led government. The protesters say the government is deeply corrupt.
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