Born in Plovdiv at the dawn of the transition to democracy in Bulgaria, 1994, Alexander Detev grew up in Sofia, where, in 2013 he graduated from the German language school, and then left for Vienna. There, he graduated “Journalism and communications”,..
Sozopol, the small town on the Black Sea, with its old wooden houses and narrow cobblestone streets leading straight to the seashore has been an inspiration for talented Bulgarian cameraman and photographer Asen Shopov, better known professionally in..
He is a young, educated doctor, determined to stay in Bulgaria - against all odds and because of them. Dr. Anton Asenov is 34 years old, he was born in the town of Shumen, but before his first birthday his family moved to Turkey. He grew up in..
“Bulgaria’s Jewish population was the only one that grew in numbers after the Holocaust compared to before,” says Bulgarian Jew Rene Shashua Hasson who is a Holocaust survivor, in an interview with Radio Bulgaria. Born in 1935 in Plovdiv, Rene..
She is retired employee of the Netherlands Post Office, free now to dedicate her time to her great passion - Bulgarian folk music. Ingrid Veeninga, 77, is Dutch. She lives in Amsterdam and never skips a rehearsal of Chubritsa - one of the most..
Professor Elka Konstantinova has died at the age of 90. She was a prominent Bulgarian writer, literature scholar and politician, a person with significant contribution to the development of Bulgarian culture . Professor Elka Konstantinova was..
Wine is a passion, it is love, mastery, but most importantly it is something that should be shared. Guided by this philosophy, Boris Borisov from Veliki Preslav has been fashioning a distinctive style in California’s wine cellars. Customers, on the..
White comets streak through the sky, planets emit a crimson glow, cloud decks spread out like powder puffs. Suddenly I set off on a journey into space. I witness the creation of the world. “It’s Iliya”, I hear an alto voice grounding me. The dream is..
It is that time of the year again when the excitement of the coming festive season mounts with every passing day. But the smiles, the hugs, the gifts at Christmas time would ring hollow without… music. One of Mary Boys Band’s most..
To craft something with your own hands, to express yourself on canvass, in words, or in music may be a way to pass the intangible cultural heritage from generation to generation, so the people who do that are designated “living human treasures”..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
The coalition We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) , which came second in the October 27 parliamentary elections, has accepted an invitation..
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus..
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