Over 100 films and various discussions on current issues await those who seek a first-hand account of events in Ukraine at the fifth edition of ОКО - International Ethnographic Film Festival. For the first time, the festival is a Ukrainian-Bulgarian..
The Bessarabian Bulgarians are "an integral part of the Bulgarian national body, of the Bulgarian spiritual and cultural community, and they will always be, because the bond between us and them is unbreakable" - wrote the only issue of the newspaper..
The Bolhrad region of Ukraine is considered the heart of the Bessarabian Bulgarian community, home to the largest and most concentrated population of ethnic Bulgarians outside of Bulgaria. More than 200 years ago, Bulgarian emigrants fled the Ottoman..
