The 28th International Festival of Masquerade Games Surva begins today in the town of Pernik (Southwest Bulgaria). The festival will be opened with a torch procession and a concert programme of foreign groups Friends without Borders. Surva is regarded as the most prestigious manifestation of traditional folk games and customs in Bulgaria and the Balkans. An international scientific forum will be held on the first day of Surva under the motto Weekdays and Masks with the participation of prominent cultural anthropologists and historians from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Macedonia and Serbia. Over 7,500 people will take part at the Surva festival between January 25 and 27.
The Bulgarian embassy in Kyiv is organizing a solemn commemoration on the occasion of the country’s national day, 3 March, in front of the monument to the Ukrainian soldiers and the Bulgarian volunteers who lost their lives for the freedom of..
A jubilee, 10 th journey on board the Rhodope narrow gauge train dedicated to Bulgaria’s national day 3 rd March, is taking place today along he scenic rail route from Septemvri to Dobrinishte. During the past nine years the festive train has..
Cloudy weather with rain and snow On Monday there will be considerable clouds over most of the country, with rain and snow in some parts of Bulgaria. There will be a light, in the Eastern part of the country to moderate Northerly wind...
Household electricity prices will not go up with the planned liberalization of the electricity market for household consumers as of 1 July this year,..
Twenty-five children and young people who survived kidnapping by the terrorists from Hamas in the tunnels under Gaza, or whose parents are still held..
Sunday will be cloudy. A cold atmospheric front from the west will bring rainfalls. In the western mountainous regions of Bulgaria,..
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