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SUNSET HUNTERS

The most enterprising sunset hunters are not in Oia. Some hours earlier they had hired boats, and after a journey across the huge bay of Santorini have stopped at the village's foot just in time for the sunset

GEORGI LOZANOV

Arguably Bulgaria's most prominent intellectual on media obfuscation, eating sterlet and the importance of visiting Belene

Issue 67, April 2012

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THE FLIGHT OF THE LESSER KESTREL

Later, as he crossed the border from home into the unknown, as he moved towards Beaufort Castle where his life would change forever and for no good reason, the soldier would note the bag's contents: two cheese sandwiches, a can of the finest Galilean cider, a packet of slightly stale Osem tea biscuits, two Macintosh apples, and one dented orange

Issue 67, April 2012

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DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD

What guarantees do ordinary citizens have that the new Illegal Assets Forfeiture Act will not be used arbitrarily?

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DIVERSE BULGARIA

Meet Bulgaria's many ethnic minorities, from Turks to Russians and from Armenians to Jews

Issue 67, April 2012

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ALEKSANDROVO TOMB

Bent double in the low entrance, Dr Kitov stepped over the remains of the stone double doors and entered. Men on foot and on horseback, chasing and killing deer and wild boar, appeared from the gloom

Issue 67, April 2012

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ABRACADABRA

David had a secret. He had noticed that his father always disappeared from one and the same place in a thick cloud of smoke

Issue 67, April 2012

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BULGARIA'S MONTHLY QUIZ

Happiness, Iskar springs and sneezes

Issue 67, April 2012

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In the winter of 1985 Bulgaria's Turkish community was forced to change their Islamic names, a ban on speaking Turkish in public was introduced, mosques were closed or destroyed, the wearing of traditional Turkish clothes was forbidden.

Oppression backfired: Bulgaria's Muslims moved to the forefront of the struggle for democracy. In the spring of 1989 they went on hunger strikes, their movement spread. Special forces moved into compact ethnic Turkish areas, shots were fired at unarmed civilians, several people were killed.

This video was produced by www.mycentury.tv