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Like Brazil, Bulgarian people rule with protest

More than 100 legislators, government ministers, journalists and officials were blockaded inside the Bulgarian Parliament building late Tuesday night and into Wednesday, as the 40th day of largely peaceful street protests in Sofia, the capital, turned confrontational. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/world/europe/protests-trap-bulgarian-lawmakers-inside-parliament.html?emc=eta1 Police tried to clear the crowd to make way for a bus exiting Parliament under heavy guard. […]