Where are the people of culture? Why aren't directors of museums, galleries and theaters protesting too? The obvious and logical question with a clear – but ungiven – answer has been circulating on social networks in recent days. Here we will give this answer. There are people of culture who support the government. This should not be …

The Rila Monastery will receive over half a million leva as a state subsidy, it became clear in news from early June. In typical government style, a sensitive and popular topic related to one of the most important sites in Bulgarian history and culture was immediately resolved through unclear procedures by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. …

"Countdown to the house with the murals of Ivan Milev", "Petition to save the house with the murals of Ivan Milev", etc. If you have not been interested in the topic of this building - a cultural asset, probably reading these headlines from the last few days you will be left with the impression that the cultural monument is in bad shape ...

From a historical and political point of view, there is no way to dispute the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire after the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-78. This was the beginning of the new Bulgarian state with a relatively independent policy in all spheres of life, which gave many freedoms to Bulgarian citizens – or at least those who were lucky enough to have them …

“Pushing ideology into every second scene doesn’t help a single film” – the quote is from Stoyan Panchev’s article about the film “The Queen of Scots”. A film full of politically correct positive discrimination roles – anachronistic for the period characters of all races needed to be represented, according to the standards of this year. Agreeing …

Anyone who has been interested in the history of Bulgarian art knows that the years of the totalitarian communist regime are those in which art was most centralized, controlled and limited artists within certain limits. The period from 1944 to 1989 (very roughly, since things are a little more complicated) are years in which …

This article is an excerpt from the new report of the EKIP "Urban Planning Policy in Sofia: Recommendations for Reform" Traffic congestion in Sofia is one of the major problems in the capital. Increased traffic is a difficult problem to solve in many places around the world, and everywhere it leads to the same negative effects that citizens, …

Parks are an invention and a luxury of modern society. This is true of many things that we take for granted, but they are a direct result of the general affluence in some parts of the world, a consequence of the division of labor, of scientific progress, and in general – the opportunity to live without working every day, all day, …

Imagine that you live in the Ideal Neighborhood. In the Ideal Neighborhood, you live in an apartment building with a large parking lot in front and a large garden behind it with trees, grass, climbing plants, and whatever else you need to keep it green. There are many more such ideal blocks near you. The Ideal Neighborhood …

The dream of the perfect city is almost as old as civilization itself. Whether city planners dream of parallel and perpendicular straight streets, or radial streets intersected by smaller and larger rings of "rings" or some other variation - proto-urbanists' attempts to create the ideal urban environment have been around for centuries. Older than them...