His office is not an ordinary one. There is no desk, computer or air conditioning - essential equipment for a contemporary office. But it has a fine location, right at the centre of Sofia - the corner of Levski Boulevard and Graf Ignatiev Str., more famously known as Popa.
He doesn't even have a chair because all he needs in his environmentally-friendly "office" on the street is a typewriter. His name is Ivan Iliev (52) and he's one of the typists who you can see when you're passing by Popa. Their work place is just in front of the Registry Agency and they type all kinds of documents a client might need.

Their typewriters are not ordinary ones. To some IT geeks, the old models the typists are using may look like antiques from the museum. However, to the typists they're a way to earn a living.

Actually, Iliev is not an ordinary typist either. He refers to himself, as a "professional revolutionary", for whom politics is not just a field of social life - it's a lifestyle.

"I don't want a typical office. My work here is a social protest. A protest against so-called democratic changes. I don't approve of them because this is pseudo-democracy," says Iliev.

"I think about politics all the time," he says, because according to him this is both the curse and the salvation of the country.

The main reason for that perception is his personal experience. Iliev claims that he was one of the people who suffered from the communist regime. He says that even after 1989 the ex-communists were hindering him in matters such as starting his own business, or working as a security guard.

Maybe that's why his beliefs are quite extreme, some could even say fanatical. He considers that the only way to generate a better future for the country is through revolution because according to him the ex-communists still have power.

Iliev wants the country to tear down the connections with its communist past and to establish real democratic governance for Bulgaria, but this doesn't stop him from using the communists' rhetoric. "Revolution, not evolution - this is the way every democratic country has emerged," he says.

Quoting doctrines and thought from Hugo and Russo to Hitler and Marx, Iliev uses every means he can to support his thesis. Neither does he hide his ambitions to govern the country.

"As a child I dreamed of becoming president," he confessed. He publicly declares that Bulgaria could be fixed in six months if he were president.

And this is not just an idea. In 1997, Iliev indeed started a campaign to collect about 15 000 signatures so that he could be a candidate for the presidential elections.

His dream hasn't come true yet, but he's still trying, as he says, "to waken the Bulgarian nation" and to teach people how to be politically educated.

"If we resolve the political problems we have, Bulgaria will become a Switzerland of the Balkans," he says referring to the Swiss model as a leading example for good governance.

All his ideas for the political development of the country - both past and future, he put in a book which he published himself nine years ago. It's a play, of course with a political plot.

In fact it's very difficult to get Iliev to talk about anything other than politics. Despite this fact, he shared that, besides "thinking about how to save the state", he likes reading and travelling around the country. Moreover, behind the harsh politician there is another man who writes poems.

He advises foreigners who come to Bulgaria (as well as being cautious because it's not a normal state) to spend at least 20 days here if they want to get to know the country. That's the minimum time necessary to travel around the mountains like Pirin and Stara Planina, to visit the seaside and to see some of the Bulgarian monasteries.

And some day when they are walking around Sofia, they can see Ivan Iliev typing at  Popa, but with his mind occupied with the political destiny of the country.