Print - Bulgaria Protest Photo Makes It to Online Magazine's Most Powerful - Novinite.com Popular online magazine Bored Panda has included a Bulgarian photo in its list of "18 Powerful Moments of Peace during Protests. The remarkable shot showing the interaction between 15-year-old protester Desislava Nikolova and a riot policeman was taken by photographer Stefan Stefanov at an anti-corruption rally in Sofia on November 12, 2013. As the picture quickly became viral, the young girl explained it on Facebook. Among policemen, there were some well-intended ones. The one whose shoulders I'm holding had some blood on his nose, obviously he had scratched it somewhere. I saw him protecting people and trying to stop policemen from beating us. I started crying and told him to take care of himself. He replied, "Hold on. Everything is going to be fine. He had tears in his eyes... The ongoing anti-government protests in Bulgaria were triggered by the appointment of controversial media mogul Delyan Peevski as Chair of the State Agency for National Security in June - and were fueled by a number of other controversial appointments and wider concerns about corruption. Bored Panda's 18 Powerful Moments of Peace During Protests can be seen HERE.