Optimism for Bulgaria

By Alexander Kashumov At the beginning of 2018, a group of MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms introduced a bill in parliament that would create new obligations for

By Spas Spasov As paradoxical as it may sound, the freefall in media quality in Bulgaria, which led to the country’s lamentable drop to 111th place in the 2018 World

A father receives a message that his 16-year-old son isn’t in biology class. He is surprised because he just dropped him off at school. He texts his son, who texts

By Mihail Veshim Polish aphorist Stanisław Jerzy Lec once wrote, “The window to the world can be shaded with a newspaper.” He was referring to the days of the ideological

By Pauline Adès-Mével Since it joined the European Union a decade ago, Bulgaria has tumbled down in the annual press freedom ranking by Reporters Without Borders, slipping from 35th place

“When we tell people back home that, at our age, we are going to ballet camp in Bulgaria, it brings the conversation to a stop,” James Pardew tells me. He

No one has done more than Pavel Kounchev to encourage volunteering in Bulgaria in the past decade. The platform he helped found almost seven years ago, Time Heroes, has connected

Stefan is only 28 but has already had a whirlwind of a life. Ever since he finished Sofia’s Spanish-language high school, he’s lived in three countries, earned a university degree,

During a meeting with representatives of the America for Bulgaria Foundation, the mayor of Razgrad expressed a wish for more tourists to visit the wonderful Abritus museum complex in the