In another commentary, Diena says that politics doesn't seem to be affecting Russian oil transit quantities, which have increased despite Russian disapproval of Latvia's policies. In Bulgaria and Belarus, recent press comment focuses on internal human rights. The Belarus daily Narodnaya Volia says that restrictions on the rights of collective farmers to seek other employment amounts to a reestablishment of serfdom. It took a little bit more than a hundred years for sovereign Belarus to revive the practice of serfdom. The kolkhozes today are bankrupt and need reforming.
People run away.
The authorities cannot keep the people there. The introduction of an employment ban isn't just another violation of human rights. The government wants to return the republic to the times of slavery. Slaves are silent and don't demand quality food. For the average Bulgarian, any change in his status quo, his professional career or his income is a dramatic event.