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author: Gergana Mancheva

300,000 added to number of well-off Bulgarians, 72 percent remain poor

There are positive factors that made Bulgarians richer in the last four months of 2017. They are: sustainable growth of the economy by around 3.6 percent, increased employment rate, reduced unemployment, higher purchasing power of households...

21.02.18 14:15 |

Forum in Sofia says NO to hate speech and extremism

Just as the controversy over the Istanbul Convention (the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence) that polarized society in Bulgaria was beginning to die down, another problem..

19.02.18 13:44 |
Grand prix – Vesselin Velchev

The Colors of Orthodoxy. Bulgaria

„ In Bulgaria the church has many centuries of history and the Bulgarian nation was baptized and adopted Orthodox Christianity first among Slavic peoples ” – this is what the Metropolitan of Warsaw and the whole of Poland Sava wrote in a foreword..

18.02.18 09:00 |

National cyber-hygiene campaign raises awareness on where and how we are vulnerable online

It would be next to impossible to find even one internet user who has never been the target of cyber-attack. Of this, cyber security experts have no doubt whatsoever. They say that there are two kinds of people and companies – the kind that..

15.02.18 14:22 |

Skier Nikola Chongarov – Olympic spirit & rock music

The Olympic spirit is all over Bulgaria’s long-year national ski competitor Nikola Chongarov. Prior to the Pyeongchang Olympics he voiced to the public his ambition to become the first Bulgarian Olympic competitor to qualify for the ski cross..

08.02.18 15:31 |

EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska: ‘New skills and retraining are major topics for European future’

“Here in the EU we try to link our regional policies to industry,” said Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska after the sitting of the Informal Meeting of the Ministers responsible for..

05.02.18 14:05 |

Two exhibitions in Sofia on horror of Auschwitz and on Jews saved by diplomacy and self-sacrifice

#WeRemember is the title that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose this year to show respect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - January 27th. More than 120 employees from all departments of the ministrytook part in the initiative..

31.01.18 15:47 |

Istanbul Convention’s proposed ratification causes intense public debate

Bulgaria hasn’t seen so far precise statistics on the number of women and girls – victims of domestic violence over the past years. Gender equality has been discussed for years, but politicians state that the existing legislation has not been..

24.01.18 15:01 |
Prof. Mihail Nedelchev and Sofia Library head Yulia Tsinzova

Author Ivailo Petrov – the scathing critic of the times

“When Ivail oPetrov’s novel “Wolf hunt” came out in 1985, people were stunned, they didn’t know whether the authorities wouldn’t suppress it. That was a few years before the societal changes in the country. Yet, the novel won the battle for a..

24.01.18 09:20 |

Master craftsman Atanas Peev: The trade of blacksmithery is a symbol of home and hearth

Once the day of St. Athanasius comes around, winter’s over! – Bulgarians of old would say, when they celebrated the day of St. Athanasius the Great on 31 January, old style. In our day it falls on 18 January. In our climes, the first month of the..

17.01.18 13:29 |