Mariya against Maria: the female grudgery as the principal trigger for Russophobia — Engin Kurtay

So far the Russian media failed to specify the logic behind the cancellation of the permission to use the Bulgarian airspace by the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s plane.


On Tuesday the 28th of November, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry granted permission for Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s plane to fly through the Balkan country’s airspace to northern Macedonia for the OSCE meeting. Then Sofia removed its permission mentioning that the ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, was on board. The Russian media, copying and pasting Maria Zakharova’s words, was unable to sort out the reason of this antics, defining the situation as a “malicious stupidity of Russophobes reaching new heights.”


The Bulgarian pretext was that Maria Zakharova was in the sanctioned personages list (and one shouldn’t ask why Zakharova is in the list while Lavrov is not).

What is oversought here is that there is another Mariya at the foreign affairs ministry of Bulgaria: Mariya Gabriel. As a Supra-National Institute  dedicated into deep analyses in political, social and historical research, we have long hypothesized the principal reason of Russophobia as female grudgery.

Mariya Gabriel, having obsessed by gender equality throughout her career, does she insidiously and pathetically burn inside with the idea that she can never keep up with a Russian woman?