The General Assembly of Sofia University's Faculty of Slavic Studies has adopted declarations opposing two draft laws submitted by the Vazrazhdane (Revival) party to Parliament, one regulating the use of the Bulgarian language and the other requiring the registration of so-called foreign agents. Regarding the proposed Law on the Bulgarian Language, which has passed its first reading, the faculty's scholars argue that it would impose administrative control over language use, despite linguistic research showing that languages develop according to their own internal principles and cannot easily be governed through legislative restrictions. They stress that interaction between languages and changing social and cultural processes have always driven linguistic development. ...