Latest Views from Bulgaria
City of the Tsars
If you have a long weekend, check out why Veliko Tarnovo is one of the most visited Bulgarian cities.
Change Comes Slowly to Bulgaria’s Roma Brides Bazaar
Age-old tradition is having to adapt to a new era - in which women no longer expect to be married off at 15.
Private Enterprise Reaches Afterlife in Bulgaria
Capital’s first private cemetery is cashing in on the demand for bespoke funerals and top-quality service - in a country where municipal burial grounds provide neither.
Skiing in Bansko: A Great Value Ski Getaway
As you drive south of Sofia, you see wide fields, hills covered with trees and bushes, and a dozen unremarkable villages that, seen from the road, look a bit ugly.
Sofia Highlights Importance of Being Blonde
Bulgarian capital plays host to first world congress of blondes – brainchild of a Russian who says being blonde is not so much a hair colour as ‘a state of mind’.
Roma Migrant Workers Revive Bulgarian Village
Contrary to the stereotypical view of the Roma community as beggars and criminals, many Bulgarian Roma have carved out a legitimate and successful life overseas - but the lure of home and family means they keep strong ties with their roots.
Sofia Gays Hail Success of Largest Ever Parade
Though Orthodox Church leaders fulminated against the pride march as a ‘sinful demonstration’, numbers were twice up on last year and there was no violence.
The F Word
Social networking has become a part of the daily lives of many people across the world and Serbia and Serbians are amongst the most active participants, spawning the launch of websites about websites and even events related to websites. What the F is it all about?
Bulgarians Recall Zhivkov with a Smile
Suleyman, Who Used To Be Yulian, and His Grandson Michael
Pressures on people in Bulgaria to change their Christian names into Muslim ones, or vice-versa, are still strong.
Nasredin Rabi Abdu: Being Black in Bulgaria
The Sudanease refugee is not afraid of skinhead attacks in Sofia; he worries more about the future of the child he is having with a Bulgarian partner.
Exilia: The Blogging Teenager Who Dispeled Myths about Bulgaria's Turks
Ethnic Turkish girl is using the net to tell her fellow countrymen what life is like on the bridge between two different cultures.
Sevda, the First Who Took Roma's Fight Against Racism To Court
As new anti-discrimination act kicks in, shops and businesses no longer get away so easily with routine abuse and harassment.
Assen: 'There is Nothing I Am Looking Forward to'
While heroin is losing its appeal among more prosperous Bulgarians, dealers have a firm foothold among the impoverished Roma.
Rosa, Rubie and Ruska: New Homes Don't Bring New Lives
Several years after Plovdiv Roma families were moved to a new estate, lessons need to be drawn from the failure of this experiment in social engineering.
