To all the meme makers out there: I see you. I like you. I won't search for your IPs.
Georgi Kandev, Secretary General of the Interior Ministry, jokes about his online notoriety
I now drive my Skoda on my own, because I don't want an innocent man to get hurt. They deliberately turned me into a target, now people are checking my usual routes. I am telling you – if something ever happens to me, it will be politically motivated.
Major resorts like Sunny Beach and Golden Sands are located at strips of sand and dunes, and there are numerous small fine sand beaches that more often than not you may end up being the only visitor to. But the Bulgarian Black Sea has a lot more to offer. Take in the long stretches of rocky coast. At times surreal stacks jot out from the water while nearby rocks fall vertically into sea. One particular point of interest is the rocky peninsula, pictured here, which was the site of a maritime battle and whence 40 virgins jumped off to avoid captivity.
In the 15th-17th century, the locals in the area of Kyustendil mainly cultivated watermelons, a little known fact as the Kyustendil cherries at the beginning of the 21st century are probably the best in the world. (Incidentally, at the opposite end of Bulgaria, in Lyubimets, where the world-famous watermelons are now produced, they once cultivated cherries. However, this historical transition from watermelon to cherry and vice versa, will be the subject of another study).
1. To make what Bulgarians call Russian salad, you need…
A. Mayonnaise
B. Olives
C. Cinnamon
2. Which car brand announced opening an official dealership in Bulgaria?
A. Tesla
B. Lamborghini
C. Rolls Royce
3. Who won the 19 April elections?
A. GERB
B. PP-DB
C. Progressive Bulgaria
А wobbly but energetic granny somewhere far, far away, cooking from scratch in her humble house dishes that you can neither taste nor smell, but somehow understand deep in your gut are utterly delicious. Roosters crow, cows moo, birds chirp and fire crackles, while the granny and her family cook, clean and enjoy their hearty meals… There is a small but very popular subgenre of YouTube videos dedicated to old folks cooking traditional food in faraway corners of the world, from mountainous Azerbaijan to rural China.
1. En route to North Macedonia, you pass through which town?
A. Kalofer
B. Kardzhali
C. Kyustendil
2. Where is the Vacha reservoir?
A. In the Rhodope
B. In the Pirin
C. In the Rila
3. Which is Bulgaria's largest Danube city?
A. Ruse
B. Vidin
C. Silistra
You are violating my personal space.
Interim Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov responding to journalists when the crisis surrounding the legitimacy on his position will end
If anyone thinks that they toppled me from power, they are wrong. We toppled ourselves after we successfully finished our job.
Boyko Borisov, GERB, on the December 2025 mass protests that forced his government out of power
Until March everything was fine, but then some aberrations occurred.
Locals refer to it by its popular nickname, The Cucumber, rather than by its official urban plan address, which is a boring Block 77. Whether the British architect, Norman Foster, was inspired by it for his Gherkin in London, which he erected two decades later, will probably never be clarified, but the town it is in aspires to become the European Capital of Culture in 2032.
In Egypt at the time of the late dynasties, but before the Ptolemies, there was a severe shortage of sand as most of that valuable commodity had been used for the temples and the pyramids. Egyptian merchants tried to capitalise on the situation. They exported large quantities of cotton in an attempt to sell it to the proto-Russian tribes, who for their part, suffered shortages of the cotton they needed to make trendy clothes out of. The Egyptians, riding on camels loaded with "white gold," crossed the Bosporus, and reached the Strandzha mountain range, where they were met by Thracians.
Eighty-eight percent of its waters are dead owing to the high concentration of hydrogen sulphate. Through the centuries it has changed its name several times. Its shores colonised by Greeks, who promptly invented a plethora of myths and legends about it. Among those, the Golden Fleece and the Argonauts still tickles the imagination. It is in Europe, but it is still less known than, say, the Bering Sea. An enigma that continues to generate myths and legends.