When Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind. But the recent arrest and threatened deportation of Annadurdy Hadjiev, a dissident from Turkmenistan who sought refuge here, suggests that some things never change.
当保加利亚在去年一月加入欧盟时，我相信我的国家最终远离了它压制的过去。但最近对在该国寻求避难的土库曼斯坦持不同政见者Annadurdy Hadjiev的逮捕和威胁驱逐出境的事件说明有些事情还是没有改观。