The Bolhrad secondary school, named after Bulgarian revolutionary and prominent public figure Georgi Sava Rakovski, is the first Bulgarian secondary school abroad. The school is marking its 165 th anniversary. Even though the year of its foundation..
It took a Bulgarian publisher, translator, former MP and champion of the Ukrainian cause and his like-minded associates exactly 18 hours from Plovdiv in Bulgaria to Odessa in Ukraine to deliver, and not for the first time, a ray of light and hope to..
The Ukrainian city of Bolhrad, or the capital of the Bessarabian Bulgarians, as it is known, takes its name from the Bulgarian words "bol" - abundance, and "grad" - city. On August 25, the city will mark the 201st anniversary of..
Villagers of Kubey in Bolhrad, Ukraine, speak a beautiful archaic Bulgarian, they observe Bulgarian traditions and put delicious Bulgarian dishes on their table. Kubey is also known as the birthplace of the renowned linguist and..
The culture of the Bessarabian Bulgarians is still alive, only today it is found not in the cities, but in the villages, where the rituals are performed in their authentic form and not in some theatrical version intended for tourists, says..
Today, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Svetlan Stoev was a guest to the Bulgarian community in the city of Bolhrad (Bolgrad), Odessa region, where celebrations on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city were..
Bulgaria is to donate 50,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Ukraine. This transpired after the meeting in Kiev between Bulgaria’s caretaker Foreign Minister Svetlan Stoev and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. “The Bulgarian community..
At its first meeting after the lifting of restrictions due to Covid-19, the Council for Work with Bulgarians Abroad under Vice President Iliana Yotova has discussed current issues of Bulgarian communities in historical diasporas . One topic on the..
A protest in defense of the rights of the Bulgarian minority in Ukraine was held in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Sofia today. The protesters demanded that a Bulgarian consulate be opened in the Ukrainian city of Bolhrad (Bolgrad) and that the..
The administrative reform in the Bolhrad region in Ukraine took place without explanatory work, which caused tension, said Anton Kisse, a member of Ukraine's Rada talking to the Bulgarian National Radio. The mayor of the Bessarabian village of Babata,..
