"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.
In the autumn of 1992, a decree of the Council of Ministers in Bulgaria established the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad to coordinate state policy towards Bulgarians living around the world. Its first president, Georgi Danailov, put together a team and the..
The 20th edition of the World Festival of Animated Film officially opens today at the Festival and Congress Centre in the port city of Varna and runs until 15 September. More than 70 productions have been selected in 7 categories . According to..
There are four upcoming days of exciting screenings of Bulgarian films in Paris. From September 10 to 13, the Bulgarian Cinema Festival will be held in the French capital and its sixth edition is under the motto "Stronger Together"...
"I have ordered inspections of all theaters to find out whether there are schemes for siphoning off state funds in other places", caretaker Minister of..
The Festival for European Solidarity will mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. According to the organizers from the Cultural Centre..
The president of the Bulgarian Women and Families Club in Hamburg, Emilia Jucker, presents her paintings to the Chicago public for the second time. This time..
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