The spirit of protest in Brazil and Turkey has now swept into Bulgaria [1]

In recent weeks the world has been transfixed by protests in Turkey [2] and Brazil [3]. Fewer media outlets have reported on the anti-government protests in Bulgaria [4], now well into their second week. But make no mistake about it: Bulgaria is undergoing a profound crisis of representation.

Every night for more than a week up to 10,000 people have taken to the streets of Sofia, initially protesting against the appointment on 14 June of the media oligarch Delyan Peevski [5] as Bulgaria's "security tsar", the head of the State Agency for National Security (Dans), the Bulgarian CIA.

More: The Guardian [6]