A red car on the road and loud music blasting on the radio, while the driver with unbuttoned shirt smokes expensive cigarettes and a young woman indulges him with chocolate. This is not the beginning of a Hollywood movie. The car is a..
For the last time she spreads her wings. For the last time she cleaves the skies. Farewell, she says to her meadows, her hills, farewell she says to her sky! This is part of a poem by Damyan Damyanov, which together..
In this edition of 80 Years in 80 Weeks we go back to 1970, and the iconic pop song of Emil Dimitrov Moya Strana, Moya Balgaria (My Country, My Bulgaria). In 1970 he wrote the music of the song and devoted it to his son. The arrangement was made by..
On 20 August 1969 there was not a single person to be seen in the streets across Bulgaria – it was the premiere date of the Bulgarian TV series At Each Kilometer. A total of 26 episodes were aired and as we say nowadays, the..
The hot summer of 1968 changed many destinies. The hope of democratic changes and socialism with a human face that came with the PragueSpring were quickly suffocated in the “caring hug” of internationalism over that hot August, when..
The year is 1967, a year when expressions like “cultural front” were being used to describe culture in Bulgaria. The first congress of Bulgarian culture was organized, while the “obligatory” ideology meant tailor-made works of literature..
1966 marks the launch of nuclear power in Bulgaria. In July an agreement was signed between Bulgaria and what was then the USSR on the construction of a nuclear power plant in this country. A plot of land 5 kms. east of the town..
The festival called Songs about the Bulgarian Black Sea coast was held for the first time in 1965 in the seaside resort of Sunny Beach. Two years later it was renamed to become Golden Orpheus. Alongside the Bulgarian pop song..
From the liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878 until 1964, Bulgaria changed its national anthem on several occasions. During the Third Bulgarian Kingdom, Shumi Maritsa (Maritsa Rushes) served as both a national and palace anthem...
In December 1948 during the 5th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party the country's first Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov spoke out the famous words: In the next ten to fifteen years Bulgaria must achieve what other nations have..
2.5% is the necessary effort that our country must make in terms of defence spending, caretaker Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov..
A protest organized by nationalist organizations in front of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre last night against the premiere of Bernard Shaw’s play..
The program of the Orthodox Book Week offers meetings with authors, publishers and translators of Orthodox books from the last few years. The event is..
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