(ANSA) - ROME, APR 12 - What is happening now in Bulgaria is a small fragment of a globally generalized chaos and democracy is a facade. The poet, literary critic and writer of Bulgarian-Cuban origin Vladimir Sabourìn said to ANSA during the 'Portraits of Poetry' event in Rome. "The first 23 years of my life were spent at the time of the previous regime, I already have experience in the area of enormous and terrible changes and I think that what is happening on the global level is catastrophic and in some respects resembles the fall of the communist regime. Without wanting to compare the regime of that time with the democracy of today, however, I can say that right now the Western democracies are experiencing their own catastrophe," Sabourìn pointed out. "Bulgaria's situation is one of profound instability, and from a historical point of view the country is closely connected first with the Russian empire and then with the Soviet regime. This is what is now really happening in Bulgaria beyond the democratic facade, with Russia always using the smallest pretext related to our country's problems to intervene. The politician who now has the best chance in the upcoming elections-we have had eight in five years-from a political point of view is Rumen Radev, a figure linked to Russia without any doubt. Radev is an emblematic example of the facade democracy present in Bulgaria. He officially is a NATO officer but really he is instead a man of Russia. Given the situation I am very concerned about what lies ahead." The poet has seven books of poems and poetry anthologies behind him but has no publishers in Bulgaria. He founded a literary movement to oppose politicized poetry and the privatization of literature. "In my country I publish myself, I haven't a publishing house and there is no interest in me as an author because I don't fit into this picture just described." (ANSA).