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Yesterday we angered the Minister of the Interior Valentin Radev. He was offended that we took data that is freely available from the website of the Ministry of the Interior and told it to the public. The reason was the "Analysis of Bulgarian Drug Policy 2009-2016" that we published. The information "undermines the authority of the Ministry of the Interior", he said and sullenly scolded us for not ...

Author: Bill Wertz, vocaleurope.eu The latest move by the Social Democrats and Greens in the European Parliament has called for a gradual phasing out of phosphate in doner kebabs. Or at least that’s what the headlines were saying until the Social Democrats’ wing came out with the claim that this was actually fake news. The popular Turkish dish is …

On November 30, 1781, Ivan Denkoglu (Ivan Nenov Denkov) was born. He is known as the "benefactor of Sofia" and is one of the great donors of education and science during the Bulgarian Renaissance. Denkoglu was born into a poor family of the tailor Neno in the Sofia village of Balsha. As a child he was a shepherd ...

Or how foundations or other non-governmental organizations take care of cultural heritage around the world without government subsidies. Capitalism and the free market often receive criticism for topics related to products or activities that would not generate profit on their own, i.e. they cannot exist limited to their own budgets with their own …

With the campaign and election of Trump, a number of phenomena with roots in the hidden corners of the internet gained greater visibility in the public sphere – meme culture, troll wars, alt-right crypto-fascism, YouTube intellectuals, etc. One of the interesting online subcultures that has attracted the attention of even mainstream media outlets like the Guardian are the so-called …

The life of Bansko residents is directly connected to the mountains - 60% of the municipality's economy is tourism, restaurants and entertainment and sports sectors. Nearly 47% of the workers find a living in these economic activities, with even the next largest employers (the furniture industry) and agriculture having a connection to the location of Bansko and Dobrinishte and the rest ...

The history we are taught in school and presented to us by the daily media consists mostly of political events, processes and leaders. The course of world history is viewed through the entire series of political processes, including declarations, revolutions and elections. Thus, progress in it is measured through the prism of …

The problem in the field of culture is related to the spending of funds, not their quantity. This was stated in Investbook with Dimitar Vuchev by Kapana.bg editor-in-chief Teodor Karakolev. According to the interlocutor in the program, the top priority should be to resolve the problem related to what exactly cultural funds are spent on. “It is hardly …

"Banality is the eighth deadly sin," says Milen Ruskov, the author of "Vazvishenie", "Chamkoria" and "Pocket Encyclopedia of Mysteries" in an interview. "The first person to compare a woman's sides to roses is a genius. The first to repeat it, of course, is an idiot," says Salvador Dali. For me, there is nothing more terrible than sameness. …

On November 3, 1943, Avram Chalovski died. He was known as one of the most significant Bulgarian industrialists and prominent donors at the beginning of the 20th century. He was called the "Bulgarian Henry Ford" by his contemporaries. He was born in 1854 in the then village of Galichnik on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, today part of …