"The dying fire is often rekindled thanks to a few remaining embers." With these warm words, Slavic philology professor Krassimir Stantchev inspires hope that the fading interest in the Bulgarian alphabet, the Bulgarian language and Bulgarian culture abroad will one day rekindle its glow.
At a recent international conference on Cyrillic, held in Sofia and Plovdiv with the participation of scholars from eleven countries, the participants acknowledged a disturbing fact: the number of Bulgarian studies lectures abroad is decreasing with each passing year, and today there are only twenty-nine.
The situation is so serious, according to a professor at Italy's Roma Tre University, that there is literally talk of saving the teaching of Bulgarian in Europe.
The main function and role of the Bulgarian Cultural Institutes abroad is to present the achievements of Bulgarian culture in all its diversity to the audience of the host country. "Our programme should be varied and everyone should find something..
Triumph , the film by the directorial tandem Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, won the grand prix for feature film at the 42 nd Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival in Varna. The film was also awarded the prize for screenplay,..
The second edition of Street Music Fest, a festival of street music and authentic urban culture, is taking place in the capital's Slaveykov Square from today until 29 September. The colourful and fun festival will bring together the city's street..
The tenth edition of the Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival opens today with a ceremony in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia...
There are 52,000 students at the biggest higher educational establishment in Portugal, 20,000 of them of other nationalities. Bulgarian culture has been..
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