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IRIT LILIAN: ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR ON HER FAVOURITE SPOTS IN BULGARIA
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Irit Lillian is one of those ambassadors who can never sit still. While she is not engaged in the many activities related to the promotion of Israel in Bulgaria, she is actively involved with a number of humanitarian projects in this country. And when she is doing neither, she likes… -
WAS JULIA KRISTEVA A COMMUNIST 'AGENT'?
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MYSTERY PEAK
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CARS OF COMMUNISM
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VERY SUPERSTITIOUS
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Clairvoyants and red thread: a short guide to Bulgarians' irrational beliefs (politics excluded) -
IS EU PAYING FOR BOOZE, SEMI-NAKED WOMEN?
Bulgaria's rotating presidency of the EU, in whose name many Bulgarians have to put up with the "stability" of the Boyko Borisov rule, suffered an ignominious setback at an youth conference, in April. The allegations were voiced by Luis Alvarado, the chairman of the European Youth Forum.Be the first to comment! Read more...
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WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
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Sometimes (but not every year) in May-June the Black Sea turns… green. Not just the greenish colour that large masses of water sometimes assumes, but a bright, almost ethereal bluish-green that mesmerises. What is going on? -
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
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BULGARIA'S CLOCKTOWERS
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NYMPHS OF KASNAKOVO
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Ancient Roman shrine devoted to healing water still attracts patronage -
IRON CHURCH ON ISTANBUL'S GOLDEN HORN
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Bulgarian St Stefan Church reopens after major renovations -
BULGARIA'S MONTHLY QUIZ
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PRESIDENT OF BCCBI AVINOAM KATRIELI: BULGARIA COMES FIRST
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In the constantly changing global reality along the development of ever stronger relations between Bulgaria and Israel emerged the need of a formal coordinating strategic body to leverage and reinforce the economic and commercial cooperation between the two countries. The Binational Chamber of Commerce Bulgaria-Israel works in cooperation with the… -
WAITING FOR THE GOATS: NEW MEMORY FROM OLD BULGARIA, AN EXCERPT FROM A MEMOIR
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This current issue presents a text by the 2017 creative non-fiction Sozopol Seminars fellow and CapitaLiterature participant Chris Fenton -
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… -
MUMMERS, CATS AND CANARIES
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HAPPY SKIES
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Country manager Mehmet Gurkaynak on what makes Turkish Airlines special -
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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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 -
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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EMBASSY RECIPES
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British Ambassador Emma Hopkins shares her favourite Bulgarian recipes -
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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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… -
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 -
CASABLANCA'S BULGARIAN CONNECTION
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Wartime movie of intrigue, romance, inspiration may have been inspired by life in... Sofia -
BULGARIA INCREASINGLY SLIDES INTO AUTOCRACY
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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.
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WAS JULIA KRISTEVA A COMMUNIST 'AGENT'?
Bulgaria 'unmasks' top French intellectual1 comment Read more...
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IRIT LILIAN: ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR ON HER FAVOURITE SPOTS IN BULGARIA
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Irit Lillian is one of those ambassadors who can never sit still. While she is not engaged in the many activities related to the promotion of Israel in Bulgaria, she is actively involved with a number of humanitarian projects in this country. And when she is doing neither, she likes…
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MYSTERY PEAK
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Was half-human Egyptian Goddess 'buried' in Strandzha?
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VERY SUPERSTITIOUS
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Clairvoyants and red thread: a short guide to Bulgarians' irrational beliefs (politics excluded)
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IS EU PAYING FOR BOOZE, SEMI-NAKED WOMEN?
Bulgaria's rotating presidency of the EU, in whose name many Bulgarians have to put up with the "stability" of the Boyko Borisov rule, suffered an ignominious setback at an youth conference, in April. The allegations were voiced by Luis Alvarado, the chairman of the European Youth Forum.Be the first to comment! Read more...
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CARS OF COMMUNISM
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Still braving Bulgaria's roads
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QUOTE-UNQUOTE
"We don't think. We act."Interior Minister Valentin Radev after two armed inmates escaped from Sofia prisonBe the first to comment! Read more...
-
BULGARIA'S CLOCKTOWERS
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Gems of 19th-century workmanship dot large and small towns
-
WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
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Sometimes (but not every year) in May-June the Black Sea turns… green. Not just the greenish colour that large masses of water sometimes assumes, but a bright, almost ethereal bluish-green that mesmerises. What is going on?
-
IRON CHURCH ON ISTANBUL'S GOLDEN HORN
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Bulgarian St Stefan Church reopens after major renovations
-
NYMPHS OF KASNAKOVO
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Ancient Roman shrine devoted to healing water still attracts patronage
-
BULGARIA'S MONTHLY QUIZ
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Think you know Bulgaria and the Bulgarians? Take our test to doublecheck
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PRESIDENT OF BCCBI AVINOAM KATRIELI: BULGARIA COMES FIRST
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In the constantly changing global reality along the development of ever stronger relations between Bulgaria and Israel emerged the need of a formal coordinating strategic body to leverage and reinforce the economic and commercial cooperation between the two countries. The Binational Chamber of Commerce Bulgaria-Israel works in cooperation with the…
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MUMMERS, CATS AND CANARIES
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The photography of Ekaterina Staromanova
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WAITING FOR THE GOATS: NEW MEMORY FROM OLD BULGARIA, AN EXCERPT FROM A MEMOIR
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This current issue presents a text by the 2017 creative non-fiction Sozopol Seminars fellow and CapitaLiterature participant Chris Fenton
