PROUD TO BE DIFFERENT?
The Orthodox Church was perhaps the most outspoken of all the gays' opponents. In a statement posted on its web page, the Bulgarian clergy used strong language to condemn what it termed a "mortal sin" and "ignominious affray"
ADAM MICKIEWICZ IN BURGAS
But what was Adam Mickiewicz doing in Burgas, now Bulgaria's second Black Sea coast town, at a time when it barely existed except as a small, disease-ridden village, and Bulgaria was a territory of "European Turkey"?
ARCHAEOLOGY NOW
Yes, archaeology in Bulgaria has changed a lot in the last 10 years. The American Research Center in Sofia, or ARCS, which was founded in 2004, marks an episode in this series of changes, and a positive one at that.
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In just a few days James B. Warlick Jr, the new American Ambassador to Bulgaria, has managed not only to meet all the important people in government, but also to visit some places of interest as varied as Boyana Church and The Teahouse bar
Distinguished professor Randall Baker, a youthful 65-year-old Welshman, first visited Bulgaria in 1990 and has been back every year since then. His new book comes out less than a year after he relocated to this country last December. Bulgariana has it all: buses that are on the Protected Species list; letters not being delivered in Socialist-era communal blocks; bikers trying to break the world land- speed record up and down Sofia's Bulgaria Boulevard.
Can you name a famous Bulgarian writer? Don’t be misled by the two obvious choices. Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, was born in Bulgaria’s Ruse on the Danube, but left the country when he was six and wrote in German. The best-selling Elizabeth Kostova is not a Bulgarian at all – she is Bulgarianmarried. As for reading a Bulgarian book in English? No? This same experience had quite an effect on Englishman Edward Vick, founder and manager of EVS Translations, who has several offices worldwide, including Bulgaria.
Often they don't believe anybody in Bulgaria can play bluegrass until they hear us – we are the only such band in the Balkans. They like it a lot – they sing, dance and cry. They often tell us: "You are the closest thing to home."
What makes Rana Dasgupta so interesting to Vagabonds in Bulgaria is Solo, his second novel. It it depicts Bulgaria and what all of us now know as the "Bulgarian condition" better than most Bulgarian-born Bulgarian-language writers have.
Nikolay Vassilev, a London-educated economist, returned to Bulgaria in 2001 to take up the job of minister in the Simeon Saxe-Coburg Government. He devised and managed the Comprehensible Bulgaria project. 
A year is not a long time to assess Bulgaria, but Nancy McEldowney has done well. Her views on the need for Bulgaria to diversify its energy suppliers will leave a mark on this country's modern politics. 
Dyana is among the few European artistes who have performed for the US Army. Her concert in the Camp Bondsteel military base in Kosovo in 2002 won her five medals of excellence.
His first recital in the UK was in 1974 and he has performed there many times since, including at concerts in support of the CLIC Sargent Charity, which helps children who have cancer.
"As long as we see our fellow men simply as other people, we will not stop hurting them," an Indian sadhu says to Burton in The Collector of World, Iliya Troyanov's last book. Search
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