Kazanlak, Bulgaria, Jan 15, 2026 (AFP) - The Bulgarian mechanic Kremlin propaganda keeps killing

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For almost a decade, Nikolay Gentchev has faced a strange question: "You're not dead, are you?" A photo of the Bulgarian mechanic has been regularly published on pro-Russian sites claiming he was burned alive by a Ukrainian mob in Odesa in the aftermath of the protests that drove the country's last pro-Kremlin ruler from power in 2014. "When they published my photo for the first time, my friends called me to ask if I was alive," he said. But "I'v......

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