Krustyo Sarafov has played central roles in plays by Shakespeare, Gogol, Chekhov, Molière, Griboyedov, Schiller, Petko Todorov, Yavorov. He is the first actor to have played the role of Golemanov – the wannabe politician that has come to be..
The Philip Koutev National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble is one of the country’s musical symbols. Thousands are the concerts, dozens are the countries where the singers, instrumentalists and dancers have held audiences in rapture. We..
There are more than 500,000 recordings at the Bulgarian National Radio Golden Fund audio archives that have preserved the sound of Bulgarian as well as European history. So, in the 21 st century we are still able to hear the voices of renowned..
"In my time – and I have often told my friends – it was easy to become a writer, because there were no writers. There was only Ivan Vazov and he stood out prominently among all the rest; everybody learned from him and he was the one who..
In1948 the merger of several sports clubs changed forever the football life in Bulgaria as it gave the beginning of the successful development of one of the most loved Bulgarian teams – the CSKA. In the winter of 1948 the army football..
“May the ideas of Stambolyiski and the awareness of the importance of the moment become part of you – now, when Bulgaria and its people stand on the threshold of a new life. Get organized in unified local area unions, into one strong Bulgarian..
On 15 September, 1946, Queen Giovanna, wife of the late monarch Boris III received a double blow. A referendum abolished the monarchy and Bulgaria was declared a Republic; the government gave Giovanna herself an ultimatum to..
The year 1945 began with… death. On 1 February, 3 regents, 8 royal advisors, 22 cabinet ministers, 67 MPs from the 24 th National Assembly, 47 generals and senior army officers were sentenced to death with no right of appeal. The..
When, under duress from Hitler, at the end of 1941 Bulgaria declared symbolic war on Great Britain and USA, no one could have known that two years later it would turn into bitter reality. On 10 January, 1944 a formation of some 200..
“No one can prevail on Bulgarians to hate Jews” - these words belong to Germany’s ambassador to Sofia Beckerle at the time the last attempt was made by the German authorities to organize the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the death..
Ribnovo, the magnetic Rhodope village, which until a decade ago lived in its own encapsulated world far from globalization, now warmly welcomes tourists...
I have not committed any crime, this is a political attack, the co-chairman of "We Continue the Change" (PP), Kiril Petkov, said before..
NATO will deploy 10,000 soldiers, 17 ships, 20 aircraft, 1,500 combat vehicles and artillery in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece during Steadfast Dart 2025...
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