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The accidental tourist

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0200

Who would one meet in Portugal? Why, a Bulgarian girl of course!

A pinch of tradition

Rene Beekman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0200

Weaving Bulgarian folklore music in a fusion with other styles

Bulgaria’s greatest love story

Petar Kostadinov — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0200

A proletarian poet won TV viewers’ vote for Bulgaria’s greatest love story of the 20th century

All is never completely lost

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0200

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner came close to becoming Bulgaria's first Oscar nominee for best foreign film.

Rock Against the Bloc

Szymon Urbański (The Krakow Post) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:42:00 +0200

A look back at the intense days of sex, punks, and rock'n'roll in communist Poland.

Boots in Budapest

Clive Leviev-Sawyer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0200

A winter’s day walk in the capital of Hungary

North African king

Nick Iliev — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0200

A group of intrepid Bulgarians climbed Morocco’s Jbel Toubkal summit in June 2009

Identity fusion

Rene Beekman — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0200

"All the European institutions, or whether or not we are allowed to smoke in Italy and Belgium, don’t really make us feel more European.

LA law

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0200

A California judge whips recruits into shape and finds her prodigies are surprisingly good

Pass-the-parcel at Customs

Kapital — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:01:00 +0200

Why Bulgarian Customs turns online ordering into the tasks of Hercules

Bulgarian idols

Petar Kostadinov — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0200

It is not easy being a wannabe pop star in Bulgaria

Fair cop?

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0200

Bulgaria’s judicial system was under intense scrutiny throughout 2009

The Sofia Echo News Quiz 2009

The Sofia Echo staff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0200

How closely have you been paying attention in 2009?

Popular Turkish soaps in Bulgaria feature in documentary

Rene Beekman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:06:00 +0200

Bulgarian audiences "felt close to the family models in Turkish series," said director Vladimirova, explaining the popularity of Turkish soaps in Bulgaria.

Raising hell

Gabriel Hershman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:07:00 +0200

A succession of artists succeeded in riling the establishment in various ways during 2009.

The Origin Day

Ekaterina Dimitrova — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:40:00 +0200

Musings on images and sites of access.

Women of substance

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0200

‘Trailing spouses are like a species of geranium,’ according to former IWC member Eileen Regan

A Christmas ghost story – II

David Clark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0200

Nikolai hummed softly to himself; he was feeling emotional now that he was at last back in his homeland and on his way home for Christmas.

Happy hangover!

Gabriel Hershman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0200

Mouth like an old boot, eyeballs veering between magenta and pretty conjunctivitis-pink, pallid complexion, extreme sensitivity to light and noise and stale rhinoceros-breath?

A Christmas ghost story - I

David Clark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0200

Anna Petrova trudged wearily through the snow, her two plastic shopping bags laden with vegetables from the Zhenskiya market, the cheapest in the city.