Historian insists that finance minister apologizes for saying "feudal old men" (Bulgaria)

Georgi Markov, director of the Institute for History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), says in an interview with FOCUS Radio that Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov will have to apologize publicly to BAS staff for saying "BAS does not do science, there are some feudal old men in BAS who collect salaries."

Markov says the minister's words only show he does not know the meaning of the words feudal lord. He notes the BAS staff are not "old men."

The historian regards such way of speaking as inappropriate for a minister.