
“Red captions ‘No f*cking way’ and ‘Ostavka’ in Cyrillic — which means resignation in Bulgarian — flashed upon Waters’ famous Wall during the performance of the song ‘Mother’. The slogans appeared right after Rogers sang the line ‘Mother, should I trust the government’ and were met with rounds of applause and shouts of ‘Ostavka’ by the crowd of over 40,000 people in Sofia’s national stadium. Thousands of Bulgarians have taken to the streets of the capital every evening since June 14 to protest against the three-month-old Socialists-backed cabinet of technocrats, which they see as corrupt and too easily swayed by shady business interests behind the scenes.”
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