Putin visits Bulgaria

My office is right downtown Sofia, right across from the National Assembly, which made things complicated when I tried to get to work today. See, Tsar Putin is visiting Sofia and the whole downtown is basically shut down. I have never seen so many police all over the place. There is one of these guys literally every 5 feet. I don't think that Bush's visit to Bulgaria last summer created such a security craziness, certainly there were not that many cops on the street. Plus, I am sure Putin has brought not only Russian "businessmen" to Sofia, but plenty of his buddies from the former KGB.