23 August is a day of commemoration of the victims of the crimes committed by the national socialist, communist and other totalitarian regimes. Theodora Dimova: Talking about the communist past is more and more imperative if we want to protect..
Thousands of Bulgarians took part in the national commemoration in the historic area of Oborishte in the Pazardjik region , where the first session of the first Bulgarian National Assembly was held in April 1876. Its deputies decided to proclaim the..
Volunteers from the Traditional National Society have re-enacted the capture of Vasil Levski on a frosty December evening in 1872 at the Kakrina inn, reports Bulgarian National Radio's correspondent from Lovech, Plamen Hristov. The culmination of the..
In the capital city's St Sophia Church, at 5pm, an archbishop's memorial service will be held in memory of Deacon Ignatius, the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom, Vasil Levski. (Levski took this name when he entered the St. Spas Monastery in Sopot - ed.). As..
The destruction of the Thracian Bulgarians is not just a memory, but a faith, a conscience and a blood bond to our ancestors and our identity. Our conviction, belief and urge today is that we must not compromise our security and our ability to..
The annual initiative commemorating the victims of the biggest concentration camp for the political opponents of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Bulgaria, is to take place at 12 noon today on the spot where the former concentration camp Belene stood..
Iconic sites in the Americas will be illuminated in the colours of the Bulgarian flag - white, green and red - to commemorate Bulgaria's national holiday on March 3, which marks the country's liberation from Ottoman rule. Among them are the antennas..
On the eve of the 145th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria , the Bulgarian Red Cross organized the traditional commemorative ceremony at the Doctors' Monument in Sofia, erected in honor of the hero medics who died in the Russo-Turkish War...
In a number of Bulgarian cities, such as Karlovo, Lovech, Veliko Tarnovo and others , the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski has begun. This evening there will be a commemorative ceremony in..
The Day of Homage to the Victims of the Communist Regime was marked for the first time in 2011 at the initiative of Bulgarian Presidents Zhelyu Zhelev /1990-1997/ and Petar Stoyanov /1997-2002/. On February 1, 1945, three regents, sixty-seven MPs,..
