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The Bulgarian Educational and Cultural Center "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Washington DC - a small corner of our homeland
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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August 24, 2025
Photo: BECC „Kliment Ohridski“ Washington DC There are many Bulgarian schools in the United States, with the oldest one founded by the Bulgarian diaspora in Chicago. In addition to the well-known Sunday schools, there are many other forms of...
See how young single adults from 6 continents and 40 countries gather to learn, serve and testify
The Church News
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August 29, 2025
29 Aug 2025, 8:00 a.m. MDT Across continents and cultures, young single adults of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are finding unity in shared faith, service and testimony. Recently, gatherings in Canada, Hungary, Mongolia and Samoa...
Who Are Chris Koclanes’ Parents? Everything to Know About Wings HC’s Sporting Family
Essentially Sports
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August 28, 2025
Kicking off his first head coach stint with the Dallas Wings, Chris Koclanes surely has many glorious years ahead of him. His debut season may not have ended like a fairytale, yet he already commands respect across professional basketball. “Most...
China-Bulgaria art exhibition opens in Sofia
Xinhua News Agency
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SOFIA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A joint exhibition featuring works by Chinese and Bulgarian artists opened here on Monday, highlighting cultural exchange and mutual understanding. The six-day event presents more than 60 pieces, ranging from Chinese ink...
Rivers of Sofia Festival Kicks Off
Bulgarian News Agency
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"Rivers can bring joy to our city like no other urban element," said Martin Yankov, founder of the The Collective Foundation, on the occasion of the start of the Rivers of Sofia Festival. It will take place along the Perlovska River in South Park...
World Championships: Pearly-Thinaah Secure Country's First Ever Medal In Women's Doubles
Bernama
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August 29, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 (Bernama) -- The country’s top women's doubles pair, Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah created history by becoming the first ever women’s doubles pair to secure a medal of any colour at the World Championships. The pair cruised into the...
Joburg has a lot to learn from Europe's mega cities like Moscow
IOL
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It's early Saturday morning on a warm summer's day when we finally touch down in Moscow after a gruelling 15 hour flight between Johannesburg and the Russian capital via Addis Ababa. I am not in Moscow on the overtures of Cyan Boujee and her ilk,...
Transfer season — Alexander Isak vs Newcastle United in another case of power dynamics
Daily Maverick
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August 29, 2025
If the soccer transfer window that precedes each season had a theme song, it would likely be the late American singer Andy Williams’s famous Christmas jingle – It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The song captures the hustle and bustle of...
Azra Tech partners with Neptune Shipping to enhance eco-friendly vessel performance
Ship Technology
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August 29, 2025
Azra Tech, a sustainable marine technologies company, has announced a partnership with Neptune Shipping, a European and Mediterranean short-sea car carrier operator, to promote environmentally friendly vessel performance. In July 2022, Azra Tech...
Bulgarian hardcore music veterans bring defiance to ‘Hills of Rock’
Global Voices
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August 20, 2025
Dobromir Ganchev of Bulgarian hardcore band Urban Grey uses a megaphone during their Hills of Rock 2025 performance in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Photo by Diana Nikolova, used with permission. At Hills of Rock 2025, Bulgaria's premier rock and metal music...
Reena and Priya Malik Secure Silver Medals at the U20 World Wrestling Championships 2025 in Bulgaria
The Logical Indian
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August 22, 2025
India shone brilliantly at the U20 World Wrestling Championships 2025 held in Sofia, Bulgaria, with Reena in the 55kg and Priya Malik in the 76kg categories winning silver medals after intense battles. This strong performance adds to the nation’s...
Documentary about Bulgarian Singer-Songwriter Ivo Dimchev Wins Special Jury Award in Sarajevo
Bulgarian News Agency
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Kristina Nikolova's documentary In Hell With Ivo won the Special Jury Award at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, which ended on Friday night, the festival's website said. The film, which had its world premiere in Munich on May 9, follows the...
Bulgarian Banks Left Vulnerable as Central Bank 'Cannot Enforce' Magnitsky Act Sanctions
Novinite
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The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has admitted that it is unable to shield the country’s banking system from individuals subject to Magnitsky Act sanctions, citing the absence of explicit regulatory provisions in national legislation. This was...
Bulgaria is represented in an art project at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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August 20, 2025
Photo: Facebook /Magura Cultural Center Magura Cultural Center is participating in the art project ''Irenwe Wa: she speaks the regular way'', created as part of the Terminal 5 expansion at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. ''This...
Bulgaria Today – 20 August 2025
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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August 20, 2025
In “Bulgaria Today” on Wednesday, August 20, we bring you, first, the latest news from this country. Next on the show: From a childhood dream of flying to creating aircraft in Bulgaria. At the end, we bring you the song "Az Sum" performed by Toma....
Zheravna Folk Costume Festival Brings to Life Bulgaria of over 100 Years Ago
Bulgarian News Agency
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The Zheravna Folk Costume Festival is under way on August 23-24. Established in 2008 on the initiative of Hristo Dimitrov, producer, choreographer and director of the Bulgare National Folklore Ensemble, the festival is held every year in the...
Slim Margins, Big Players: How One Bulgarian Lab Holds Its Ground in the Prescription Lens Market
Bulgarian News Agency
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On a quiet side street in the centre of Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second-largest city, a four-storеy grеy building houses what is the country’s only laboratory for the production of prescription (RX) optical lenses. It is no small feat that the company...
Come Dine in Crete: ‘The Mediterranean secrets I wish I’d served on TV’
Metro
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August 23, 2025
Cretan cuisine has a glittering reputation for good reason (Picture: TUI Musement Crete/Sabi Phagura/Tom Fallon) With the garlic cloves on a wooden chopping board, I place the heel of my gloved left hand over them and with the other hand on top:...
Media Review: August 19
Bulgarian News Agency
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No single topic dominates Tuesday’s news media. POLITICS Speaking on Bulgarian National Radio, political PR expert Diana Damyanova commented that holding early parliamentary elections in the coming months has become a matter of political survival...
EU planning new sanctions on Russia following latest attack on Kyiv
El País
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August 29, 2025
The latest Russian attack on Kyiv has hit the EU very close to home. On the eve of European defense and foreign ministers meeting for the first time since the summer break to discuss how to increase military aid to Ukraine and further pressure...