The life of Captain Petko Voyvoda /Chieftain/ has been retold in songs, legends and different stories that come to testify on the admiration and love, kept in the memory of the people about this brave man. RB’s Albena Bezovska will tell you some of the..
The Association for the Development of Arts and Crafts, established in 2008 has handed its annual Guard of Traditions awards for a 4th year in a row. The organization links the spirituality of the past with present day people, bringing together persons, who..
According to science books, mist or fog is condensed water vapor, made up of minute droplets in the lowest strata of the atmosphere. When temperatures drop below zero, the mist is made up of ice crystals. In other words, it is a cloud that starts from the..
We won’t exaggerate too much claiming that death is a taboo topic in the present-day world. For us it is a bleak, depressing and annoying thought that we try to avoid until the moment comes to confront the reality of death. For our ancestors, however,..
In the Bulgarian mythology, the Sun is a young man, a tsar and sovereign of everything that lives in the world. It appeared at the very beginning of Creation when the sky and the earth merged. This marriage produced the Moon too interpreted ambiguously as..
On 26 October the Bulgarian Orthodox Church venerates the Saint Great Martyr Demetrius, the patron of Thessaloniki. He was born in that city in 3 c. AD in the family of the mayor. After the death of his father, the Roman emperor appointed Demetrius on the..
Both despised and revered, the serpent is a key image with a deep mythological meaning in the Bulgarian traditional culture. On the other hand, the reptile was seen as a capital enemy of humans, often identified with Satan. This notion has been reinforced..
According to folk tradition, what a man considers as an axe, a woman regards as a yoke. In other words – it was an assistant in certain activities, but also a means of protection. An immutable and indispensable attribute of young girls and brides, the..
One of the earliest achievements of human civilization is the sharing of food, and also it being served as an expression of veneration or gratitude. The place where the family gathered for having the food is linked to the most ancient monuments of..
Only a person, who has never visited a Bulgarian village, is not aware of the fact that the tastiest meals ever are cooked by local grandmothers. Those use home-grown peppers, tomatoes, onion and herbs. They add chicken of the same origin and cook all this..
The Bulgarian Parliament has finally postponed the liberalisation of the energy market for one year, starting from 1 July. The decision was taken with..
Nearly 400 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) have been registered in the country. We are at the beginning of a nationwide epidemic, Chief State Health..
The National Assembly removed its chairman Rosen Zhelyazkov from office. His dismissal was proposed by We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria,..
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