Our new column “Bulgarians Abroad” is aimed at bringing you the stories of Bulgarians living near and far outside Bulgarian borders. Today, there are more than two million Bulgarians living in different corners of the globe –studying, working, raising their families and building “their own” Bulgaria far from its geographical boundaries. Their stories and the conversation with them and about them awaken a host of patriotic feelings and emotions, give rise to nostalgia and yearning for one’s homeland…
Bearing in our hearts the thought of Bulgarians and all things Bulgarian existing out there, far from our native land, the team of Radio Bulgaria is committed to go deeper into the joys and sorrows, the choices, achievements and important decisions in the lives of our compatriots all around the world.
We will be really excited if you get in touch us with, completing the stories of those people we talk about!
You can write to us at: radiobulgaria@bnr.bg
The Bessarabian Bulgarians are "an integral part of the Bulgarian national body, of the Bulgarian spiritual and cultural community, and they will always be, because the bond between us and them is unbreakable" - wrote the only issue of the newspaper..
Voting by force of habit. Voting with the last ounce of hope that tomorrow everything will be all right and we shall only be talking to each other about elections in four years’ time. Voting with a sense of bitterness – at politicians, at our own..
With 100% of the processed protocols in the Central Election Commission of the voting abroad, the results show that the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms is first with 22.65%. Second is the PP-DB coalition with 20.80%, followed by Vazrazhdane..
Bulgarians who gathered in front of the polling station in Norwalk, Connecticut - USA danced a traditional horo dance, we learned from Nadya Ullman, a member of the board of directors of the Bulgarian Center in New England , USA. Election day there..
Why I vote - a question that guides our actions on election day. "People who can't answer don't generally vote," says Ventsy Georgiev. He is a member of the Las Vegas polling station, USA. He says that nearly 7,800 Bulgarians live in this American city ,..
Election day in the Macedonian capital Skopje was normal, with no queues at polling stations. Around 50 people had voted by midday, and the number was expected to exceed 100 by the time the polls closed. Atanas Velichkov, editor-in-chief of the Tribuna..
Bulgarians voted at 66 polling stations across Germany. Berlin has five, each of which is equipped with a voting machine. Election day is going smoothly. So far just over 800 people have voted, which compared to the 9 June elections is slightly more,..
Polling day in Reading, south-east England, is going smoothly. About 300 people are expected to vote. The town's only polling station uses only paper ballots. This is the second time the polling station has been moved to a new address, but it is not..
Election day was peaceful for Bulgarians in London, ending two hours later than at home. However, one of the largest Bulgarian communities in a European capital, the one in London, did not go to the polls today in the numbers that we remember from the..
Very high turnout by midday at one of the 16 polling stations in the heart of Europe - Brussels. 334 Bulgarians (as of 15:00 Bulgarian time) have so far exercised their right to vote in Section 2 of the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU,..
Representatives of 4 clubs of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization (MPO) in North America met at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Youngstown. The host..
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