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ADRENOCHROME Exposed in Bulgarian Media & Turkey But NOT U.S. Media
[embedded content] I lived in Turkey for several years in the 1980s as a student of the Turkish language, and later as a Turkish translator for American NGO groups sending in medical support teams to the Kurdish refugee camps in northern Iraq from Turkey after the Gulf War in the early 1990s. And while my […]
Bulgarian Pomaks keep traditional wedding rite alive
The marriage of Nefie Eminkova, 21, and her fiance Schaban Kiselov, 24, is an extravaganza of bright colours, flowers, feasting and dancing. But the bride, who comes from Bulgaria’s Pomak minority, can see none of it. Her eyes must remain tightly closed until a Muslim priest blesses the couple. The pair are following an age-old […]
Bulgarian elections: Slight lead for new anti-corruption PP party over ex-ruling GERB — exit polls
Bulgaria’s third election in eight months looks to be a tight race with exit polls putting a newly created anti-corruption party just ahead of the former ruling GERB party. According to surveys late on Sunday night, the new centrist party We Continue the Change (PP) has a three-point lead, with a surprise 26% of the […]
France’s Arc de Triomphe to be covered in fabric for Bulgarian artist tribute
France’s Arc de Triomphe will be temporarily wrapped in 25,000 square metres of recyclable bluish-silver fabric and 3,000 metres of red rope in tribute to Bulgarian artist Christo. The artist had been working on the project for decades, dreaming to create ‘The Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’. The Bulgarian artist’s family say it’s a fitting tribute […]
Bulgarian companies eager for entering Iranian market
TEHRAN – Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Tehran Nikolina Kuneva in a meeting with the Head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mining and Agriculture (TCCIMA) Masoud Khansari said her country’s companies are eager for cooperation with their Iranian counterparts. In the meeting held on Monday at the place of TCCIMA, the two sides stressed the need […]
Bulgarian PM Borissov ahead in exit polls but loses ground to protest parties
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s right-wing GERB party was leading exit polls on Monday morning with an estimated 25% of the vote, compared to 33.5% at the 2017 election. The three-time premier lost ground to protest parties amid accusations of endemic corruption. Bulgarians voted Sunday in a parliamentary election widely seen as a referendum on […]
Bulgarian game show host quotes Bobby Fischer in antisemitic rant
The host of a popular game show on Bulgarian public TV quoted on air the antisemitic rantings of the late chess master Bobby Fischer, then apologized the following day, a day after the broadcasting company’s top official. On Tuesday, Orlin Goranov of Bulgarian National Television’s “The Last One Wins” posed a question to contestants on […]
European tribunal: Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier
Bulgaria’s judicial system erred when it ignored complaints that a far-right politician was inciting to discriminate against Jews and Roma people, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The ruling Tuesday was on appeals to the European court by two Bulgarian Jews, Gabriela Behar and Katrin Gutman, and two Roma citizens, Kremena Budinova and […]
Bulgarian officials find heroin in ship from Iran
Prosecutors from Bulgaria said custom officials confiscated some 400 kilograms of heroin from a cargo ship originating from Iran, according to an ABC news report. The drugs were found divided into 487 packages, and were hidden among asphalt rollers, according to the prosecutor. The estimated worth of the drugs was marked at 18 million euros […]
Bulgarian villagers chase away evil with bonfire feast and dancing
Villagers in western Bulgaria donning large, frightening masks depicting mythical creatures took to the streets Wednesday, in an age-old Orthodox New Year carnival believed to ward off evil spirits. The traditional Kukeri dancers banged drums and shook loud copper bells around bonfires in the villages of Svetlya and Kosharevo, some 60 km (37 miles) west […]
Russian Foreign Ministry expels Bulgarian diplomat in tit-for-tat move
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has expelled a Bulgarian diplomat in retaliation after the expulsion of a Russian diplomat by Sofia. The ministry said in a statement it had summoned Bulgaria’s ambassador to inform him that Lieutenant Colonel Mitko Borisov, the embassy’s assistant military attaché, had been declared persona non grata. The diplomat has been ordered to […]
Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted in spate of crimes on Jewish sites in Europe
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Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted by antisemitic vandals
Vandals struck a synagogue gate in Bulgaria and a monument to the victims of the shooting attack last year near a synagogue in Halle, Germany, in a spate of unrelated incidents this week in Europe. In Bulgaria, the words “Free Palestine Israel=Nazis Antifa Bulgaria” were spray-painted Wednesday on the gate to the synagogue of Plovdiv, […]
God or the Devil? Whose Mystical Eyes Follow Visitors through the Bulgarian Prohodna Cave?
Prohodna Cave is a natural cave located in North Central Bulgaria. This cave is a popular tourist attraction due to a certain natural feature in the cave, i.e. two eye-shaped holes in its central chamber. The pair of holes has been dubbed by locals as the ‘Eyes of God’, or ‘Oknata’ in Bulgarian. Sometimes, this […]
Unidentified Salt God Emerges from Ancient Bulgarian Cult Site
In the ancient world salt was so valuable that Roman soldiers were sometimes paid with salt instead of money . A monthly salt allowance was a salarium, and this Latin word seeds both the French word salaire, and the English language word salary. When salt first appeared on the market it circulated in its economic […]
“COVID-19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless” Says Bulgarian Pathology Association
The Facts: A study published in the New England Medical Journal outlines how it’s already known that masks provide little to zero benefit when it comes to protection a public setting. Reflect On: Should we have the freedom to wear masks? Why are so many things we are doing right now contrary to data and […]
Bulgarian Journalist Confronts US Officials at EU Over Offshore Bioweapons Labs
Previously, 21WIRE reported on the Pentagon’s extensive offshore bioweapons facilities and how the US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. This week, Bulgarian-based investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva was at the European Parliament in Brussels to confront Assistant Secretary at the US Department […]