Our new column “Bulgarians Abroad” is aimed at bringing you the stories of Bulgarians living near and far outside Bulgarian borders. Today, there are more than two million Bulgarians living in different corners of the globe –studying, working, raising their families and building “their own” Bulgaria far from its geographical boundaries. Their stories and the conversation with them and about them awaken a host of patriotic feelings and emotions, give rise to nostalgia and yearning for one’s homeland…
Bearing in our hearts the thought of Bulgarians and all things Bulgarian existing out there, far from our native land, the team of Radio Bulgaria is committed to go deeper into the joys and sorrows, the choices, achievements and important decisions in the lives of our compatriots all around the world.
We will be really excited if you get in touch us with, completing the stories of those people we talk about!
You can write to us at: radiobulgaria@bnr.bg
With a festive mood and a lot of excitement, the fabulous theatre workshop "Dwarves in Drawers" kicked off in the USA during the New Year's holidays. This is the first Bulgarian children's theater troupe in Las Vegas and a long-standing dream of..
Talented choreographers and dancers created dozens of folklore ensembles in Bulgaria in the middle of the 20th century. Due to the idea of having a representative group in every city to promote local folklore and revive traditions, the Pazardzhik..
According to official statistics, there are 50,000 Bulgarian citizens living on the territory of Italy, but unofficially their number is around 90,000, Nelly Simeonova, head of the consular section at the Bulgarian embassy in Rome said in an interview..
In the late autumn of 2009, patriotic Bulgarians - parents and teachers working and living in Athens - founded a Bulgarian school named Paisiy Hilendarski (St Paisius of Hilendar). Two years later, a second school was opened on the island of..
Bulgarian community in Austria through the eyes of Martina Shopova-Yanev As political news kept pouring in, connected with Bulgaria’s entry into the Schengen area and the conditions Austria sets down for this to happen, at the end of December,..
What did 2023 look like from the point of view of the Bulgarians living abroad? In the last days of the year, a Radio Bulgaria team was on a visit to Rome to meet with the Bulgarians living there. Most of them say they follow events in this country..
2023 has been a year that has been interesting and challenging in all kinds of ways for the Executive Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (EABA), says its CEO Rayna Mandjoukova. She says the Agency has overcome one more obstacle to its more active..
He is 24 years old, originally from the Bulgarian town of Rakovski, he has spent most of his life in Italy. Stefan Borgodjiisky is currently a student at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, majoring in clarinet, but he is in love..
There's a miniature Bulgaria in the administrative capital of the Netherlands, centred around the city's two Bulgarian Sunday schools. Here we tell you about the most recently founded one, named after the apostle of Bulgarian freedom, Vasil Levski. "..
The Nativity of Christ is the holiday that at the end of every year gathers young and old alike in Bulgarian schools abroad. And social networks make it possible for us to see what and how the children of our compatriots have learned in the Bulgarian..
Interest in the academic study of the Bulgarian language in Slovakia dates back almost a century. The Comenius University in Bratislava was founded in..
More than 7,000 children from the Bulgarian historical diasporas in Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania have turned into ambassadors of..
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