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author: Desislava Semkovska

Art workshop helps abuse survivors cope with traumatic memories

Domestic violence in Bulgaria has no official statistics and there is no adequately enforced law. According to NGOs, nearly 1 million women are victims in this country; the exact number of men and children who have experienced psychological,..

20.04.23 15:12 |

Celebrando la Pascua con los búlgaros en Moldavia

Cuando Galina Manolova, una búlgara de sexta generación, nacida en la aldea de Kayraklia, en Moldavia, publicó un relato sobre un juego pascual de su infancia , ella ni siquiera suponía la enorme reacción que provocaría entre los búlgaros esparcidos..

16.04.23 09:10 |
Възстановка на играта на яйца

Bessarabian ethnographer Galina Manolova revives an Easter egg game long lost in time

When Galina Manolova, a sixth-generation Bulgarian born in the village of Cairaclia, Moldova, published her account of an Easter egg game from her childhood , she never imagined the huge response it would provoke among Bulgarians around the..

16.04.23 06:50 |

Bulgaristan’da ilk Paskalya kartları ne zaman çıktı

19. yüzyılın 60’lı yıllarında Batı Avrupa’da, zarfsız ‘açık posta kartları’ çıkıyor. Herkesin kart üzerinde yazılanları okuyabileceği sıkıntısından doğan ikircimlikten sonra açık post kartlarının gönderilmesi yığınsal bir özellik kazanlıyor...

15.04.23 09:00 |

Las primeras postales pascuales en Bulgaria

En los años 60 del siglo XIX en Europa Occidental aparecieron las llamadas “postales abiertas” que eran unas postales sin sobre, en las cuales las señas del remitente y del destinatario estaban escritas en una columna y el texto en otra y que eran..

14.04.23 09:10 |

The first Easter greetings cards in Bulgaria

What were known as “open” postcards appeared in Western Europe in the 1860s – postcards without an envelope, with the addresses of the recipient and of the sender on the one side and text on the flipside – the forerunners of the greeting cards. After..

14.04.23 08:40 |
Kumiçene geleneği, Koynare şehri, 2022 y. 
Foto: Yaşayan Bulgar Kökleri Vakfı

Koynare kasabasında ‘kumiçene’ geleneği

Pleven ilinin Koynare kasabasındaki ‘Hristo Botev 1889’okumayurdunda faaliyet gösteren özgün folklor grubu üçüncü yıldır  Kuzeybatı Bulgaristan’a özgü ‘kumiçene’ ritüelini yeniden canlandıracak. Bulgar folklor takvimindeki her  ilkbahar yortusu gibi..

08.04.23 07:12 |
Recreación del ritual

Celebrando la costumbre Kumichene en la ciudad de Koinare

Por tercer año consecutivo el grupo de folclore auténtico de la casa de cultura Hristo Botev 1889 de la ciudad de Kionare, en la región de Pleven, mostrará una recreación de una de las costumbres más bellas y queridas en esta parte de..

08.04.23 06:05 |
Reenactment of the folk custom of kumichene in the town of Koinare, 2022

The spring folk custom of kumichene in the Bulgarian town of Koinare

For a third year in a row, the group for authentic folklore at the "Hristo Botev 1889" community center in the town of Koinare, Pleven region, will present a reenactment of one of the most beautiful and beloved customs in..

08.04.23 05:00 |

Nenka Rashkova about living abroad and her hobby that lends colour to her life

She holds two jobs, has a husband, a child and a dog – that is what life is like for Nenka Rashkova in Germany. Like most Bulgarians living abroad, the young family decided to leave Bulgaria for very prosaic reasons: “We left four years ago..

29.03.23 11:06 |