Located near the Albena resort complex, the “Baltata” nature reserve is home to over 260 plant species, 28 of which are protected. Despite this, a sewage pipe is discharging untreated wastewater into the area, without undergoing proper purification at the nearby treatment facility. As a result, the “green heart of Albena” is under threat due to the inadequate handling of wastewater treatment.

The story of Nikolay Dimov from the Yambol village of Ruzhitsa is more than tragic. It is an alarm about the state of the rule of law in Bulgaria, where honest labour is punished, and crime is tolerated.

When a person encounters difficulties from early childhood, he has a choice whether to accept them and turn them into virtues that make him a good and honourable person later on, or to become embittered and harbour hatred toward everyone and everything. Unfortunately, Simon Milkov has chosen the latter.