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PRESENTING A GUIDE TO COMMUNIST BULGARIA
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Over 100 guests came to the official launch of A Guide to Communist Bulgaria by Dimana Trankova, Georgi Lozanov, Mihail Gruev and Anthony Georgieff at an event at the NDK Peroto Literary Club hosted by the America for Bulgaria Foundation, Vagabond Media and the Free Speech International Foundation; on 28… -
HAPPY SKIES
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IS BOYKO A RELIABLE ALLY?
Bulgaria's prime minister increasingly looks set to step off Western courseBe the first to comment! Read more...
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LIONS OF BULGARIA
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Most countries in the world have adopted an animal to symbolise what their nations think of themselves. Australia has the emu, South Africa the springbok. Canada has the beaver, China the panda. In Europe, the countries are almost equally divided between those – Germany, Poland, Albania and so on –… -
TIHOMIR STOYANOV
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'Found' photography constructs collective image of generation of Bulgarians -
KRUSHUNA WATERFALLS
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With its rolling hills and uninspiring towns, the central part of northern Bulgaria appears unexciting and dull, a place you pass through on your way to somewhere else. However, as so often happens in Bulgaria, appearances are deceiving. Leave the main road and you will discover that the rolling hills… -
BRIDGES OF FREEDOM
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America's War of Independence and Bulgaria's April Uprising began in a similar way: on a bridge -
BULGARIA'S MONTHLY QUIZ
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PUMP UP THE BASS
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Young American-Bulgarian musician Victor Blagoev on life in Prague, good music and being from Earth -
OUR MEN IN VIENNA
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Cafés, palaces, former public baths denote Bulgaria's historical and fictional presence -
VANGA, EXTRATERRESTRIALS, WORLD CONSPIRACIES
This section of Vagabond is usually reserved for the funnier and/or exceptionally eccentric statements and deeds of Bulgaria's statesmen, but in this issue we bring on the results, without a comment, of a poll conducted by Trend, an independent polling agency, into the mindsets of those who vote them into…Be the first to comment! Read more...
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WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
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Most Bulgarian towns with roots in the 19th century and earlier have them: tall, sometimes coarse but often exquisitely decorated towers, usually in city centres, that have still functioning timepieces, beating a bell on the hour – every hour for decades and centuries. -
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
"I am the only person out of suspicion in the CEZ sale, as I dislike that company."Prime Minster Boyko Borisov on a little-known local company purchasing the electricity distribution giant in southwestern Bulgaria, including SofiaBe the first to comment! Read more...
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THIS DRUM BEATS LIKE A HEART, A TRAVELOGUE
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This current issue presents a text by the 2017 creative non-fiction Sozopol Seminars fellow and CapitaLiterature participant Bistra Andreeva. Originally published by Bulgarian weekly Capital Light -
EMBASSY RECIPES
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British Ambassador Emma Hopkins shares her favourite Bulgarian recipes -
TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A SMOKE-FREE FUTURE
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George Margonis, the General Manager of Philip Morris Bulgaria, on the biggest change in the history of the tobacco industry -
REBIRTH OF BULGARIAN FASCISM
As Bulgaria goes on holding the rotating presidency of the EU and the Bulgarian leaders are extra cautious not to do anything that might tarnish their avowedly pro-European image, local as well as international Nazis marched through Sofia to commemorate the day of the assassination of a Bulgarian general, Hristo…Be the first to comment! Read more...
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WHO THE F*CK IS GINKA?
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Under GERB, life in Bulgaria becomes increasingly absurd as exemplified by the "purchase" of CEZ, the power distribution company that controls the electricity grid of the whole of western Bulgaria, including the capital, Sofia, by a heretofore totally unknown woman, whose first name, Ginka, quickly turned into a byword for… -
FOR A COUPLE OF LIONS' HIDES
Prime Minister saves cubs from zooBe the first to comment! Read more...
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TOP 10 PLACES AND EVENTS NOT TO MISS IN BULGARIA IN 2018
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Choosing your next travel destination in Bulgaria is tough. If you are yet to become acquainted with this country, it is easy to get lost in all the opportunities. -
BULGARIA'S PARTIZANI MONUMENTS
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When you travel around Bulgaria, from the capital to the smallest of villages, you will inevitably encounter monuments of stern men and sometimes women, with guns in their hands and passion in their eyes. Made of stone or bronze, these monuments adorn squares and streets, peek over the trees by… -
YOU'LL TAKE THE HIGH ROAD
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Like many good stories, Scotland through the lens of Anthony Georgieff begins with the open road. The open road is unpredictable, it could take you anywhere and a return ticket is not guaranteed. Georgieff’s road takes us into a realm both familiar and unsettling, of classic Scotland and of another… -
WITH BULGARIA AT THE HELM
A first for the poor Balkan country, but also a first for the EUBe the first to comment! Read more...
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FROM UTOPIA TO DYSTOPIA
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Smolyan is one of Bulgaria's best examples for Communist urbanism, and what became of it post-1989 -
THE LAND OF DRACULA
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Head to Romania to track real-life bloodsucker more terrible than the fictional one -
BULGARIA'S FIRST CAPITALS
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Travel northeast to discover this nation's mediaeval beginnings -
WELCOME TO BULGARIA
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Ten years into its EU membership and after millions of leva spent on infrastructure projects, some of which needed to be made over, owing to poor workmanship, a few days after they had been inaugurated, Bulgaria succeeded in setting up a public convenience facility at Kalotina, the border checkpoint with… -
CASABLANCA'S BULGARIAN CONNECTION
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Wartime movie of intrigue, romance, inspiration may have been inspired by life in... Sofia -
JEWISH BULGARIA
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Photography exhibition goes to Prague -
BULGARIA INCREASINGLY SLIDES INTO AUTOCRACY
GERB wants Constitutional amendments to penalise privatisation dealsBe the first to comment! Read more...
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KALIAKRA. FORTRESS OVER TROUBLED WATERS
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All fortresses come with their legends, but in Bulgaria few can compete with Kaliakra, near Kavarna, on the northern Black Sea coast. -
BULGARIA'S DOLMENS: PREHISTORIC MEGALITHS SLOWLY DISAPPEAR FROM SOUTHEAST
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Dragon houses: until not that long ago, this was what Bulgarians called the squat, sturdy dolmens littering the low ridges of the Strandzha and Sakar mountains. -
WHERE IS YEMEN?
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Eco trail offers scenic waterfall, pristine nature and amusing conversations -
CREATORS OF THE BULGARIAN STATE
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Built under Communism, this larger than life monument in Shumen continues to awe -
CHRIST IN SPACE? OLD FRESCO IN BULGARIAN VILLAGE CHURCH DEPICTS 'UFO'
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Christ was an alien. Or if He wasn't, then four centuries ago there were UFOs hovering over what is now southwestern Bulgaria. -
FORGOTTEN GLORY OF RED CHURCH
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Apart from St Sofia in the capital, the marvellous mosaics of the Bishop's Basilica and the Small Basilica in Plovdiv, and the remains of the metropolitan church in Nesebar, traces of the early Byzantine era in Bulgaria are scarce and little known. They do exist, however: forgotten remnants of the…
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HAPPY SKIES
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Country manager Mehmet Gurkaynak on what makes Turkish Airlines special
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VANGA, EXTRATERRESTRIALS, WORLD CONSPIRACIES
This section of Vagabond is usually reserved for the funnier and/or exceptionally eccentric statements and deeds of Bulgaria's statesmen, but in this issue we bring on the results, without a comment, of a poll conducted by Trend, an independent polling agency, into the mindsets of those who vote them into…Be the first to comment! Read more...
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PRESENTING A GUIDE TO COMMUNIST BULGARIA
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Over 100 guests came to the official launch of A Guide to Communist Bulgaria by Dimana Trankova, Georgi Lozanov, Mihail Gruev and Anthony Georgieff at an event at the NDK Peroto Literary Club hosted by the America for Bulgaria Foundation, Vagabond Media and the Free Speech International Foundation; on 28…
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TIHOMIR STOYANOV
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'Found' photography constructs collective image of generation of Bulgarians
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PUMP UP THE BASS
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Young American-Bulgarian musician Victor Blagoev on life in Prague, good music and being from Earth
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OUR MEN IN VIENNA
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Cafés, palaces, former public baths denote Bulgaria's historical and fictional presence
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BULGARIA'S PARTIZANI MONUMENTS
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When you travel around Bulgaria, from the capital to the smallest of villages, you will inevitably encounter monuments of stern men and sometimes women, with guns in their hands and passion in their eyes. Made of stone or bronze, these monuments adorn squares and streets, peek over the trees by…
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FORGOTTEN GLORY OF RED CHURCH
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Apart from St Sofia in the capital, the marvellous mosaics of the Bishop's Basilica and the Small Basilica in Plovdiv, and the remains of the metropolitan church in Nesebar, traces of the early Byzantine era in Bulgaria are scarce and little known. They do exist, however: forgotten remnants of the…
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BRIDGES OF FREEDOM
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America's War of Independence and Bulgaria's April Uprising began in a similar way: on a bridge
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KRUSHUNA WATERFALLS
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With its rolling hills and uninspiring towns, the central part of northern Bulgaria appears unexciting and dull, a place you pass through on your way to somewhere else. However, as so often happens in Bulgaria, appearances are deceiving. Leave the main road and you will discover that the rolling hills…
-
WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
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Most Bulgarian towns with roots in the 19th century and earlier have them: tall, sometimes coarse but often exquisitely decorated towers, usually in city centres, that have still functioning timepieces, beating a bell on the hour – every hour for decades and centuries.
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LIONS OF BULGARIA
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Most countries in the world have adopted an animal to symbolise what their nations think of themselves. Australia has the emu, South Africa the springbok. Canada has the beaver, China the panda. In Europe, the countries are almost equally divided between those – Germany, Poland, Albania and so on –…
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IS BOYKO A RELIABLE ALLY?
Bulgaria's prime minister increasingly looks set to step off Western courseBe the first to comment! Read more...
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QUOTE-UNQUOTE
"I am the only person out of suspicion in the CEZ sale, as I dislike that company."Prime Minster Boyko Borisov on a little-known local company purchasing the electricity distribution giant in southwestern Bulgaria, including SofiaBe the first to comment! Read more...
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BULGARIA'S MONTHLY QUIZ
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Think you know Bulgaria and the Bulgarians? Take our test to doublecheck
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THIS DRUM BEATS LIKE A HEART, A TRAVELOGUE
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This current issue presents a text by the 2017 creative non-fiction Sozopol Seminars fellow and CapitaLiterature participant Bistra Andreeva. Originally published by Bulgarian weekly Capital Light
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TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A SMOKE-FREE FUTURE
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George Margonis, the General Manager of Philip Morris Bulgaria, on the biggest change in the history of the tobacco industry
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EMBASSY RECIPES
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British Ambassador Emma Hopkins shares her favourite Bulgarian recipes
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REBIRTH OF BULGARIAN FASCISM
As Bulgaria goes on holding the rotating presidency of the EU and the Bulgarian leaders are extra cautious not to do anything that might tarnish their avowedly pro-European image, local as well as international Nazis marched through Sofia to commemorate the day of the assassination of a Bulgarian general, Hristo…Be the first to comment! Read more...
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FOR A COUPLE OF LIONS' HIDES
Prime Minister saves cubs from zooBe the first to comment! Read more...
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WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
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It is unclear when lions were last seen in Europe, but a number of European countries have adopted the lion as an integral part of their coats-of-arms and national symbolism. -
TOP 10 PLACES AND EVENTS NOT TO MISS IN BULGARIA IN 2018
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Choosing your next travel destination in Bulgaria is tough. If you are yet to become acquainted with this country, it is easy to get lost in all the opportunities.
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BEGLIKTASH, A MEGALITH IN WINTER
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Tourist crowds tend to spoil places and Begliktash is not an exception. Located near Primorsko, on Bulgaria's crowded southern Black Sea coast, the Thracian megalithic shrine gets crammed in the holiday season. There are package tourists, there are independent visitors, and there are garish and sometimes rather kitschy reenactments of…
