Tue, Feb 09 2010
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For one minute, in honour of one of Bulgaria's most beloved heroes and revolutionaries, Hristo Botev, traffic in Sofia came to a standstill.
A poem by the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary was read by the Bulgarian ambassador to the United States in the fifth annual Small Nations Poetry Reading.
Cannons made of cherry tree wood and the chill spectacle of a cluster of skulls and bones in a church may be the most prominent symbols of Bulgaria's 1876 April Uprising. While the uprising itself failed because of poor co-ordination by the rebels and a relentless and ruthless backlash by the Ottoman authorities, then in their fifth century of rule over Bulgaria, the very brutality of the suppression of the revolt got international attention and was a contributing factor to the Russo-Turkish War in 1877/78 that opened the way for Bulgaria's liberation.
First time the ratio of former collaborators is above 10 percent of records examined.
Weather conditions in Bulgaria on February 10-11 will become 'forbidding' according to the forecast.
260 Bulgarian soldiers landed at Sofia Airport from Kandahar on February 8 2010.
Having chosen its contestant to go to Oslo for Eurovision 2010, on February 28 Bulgaria will choose the song that he will sing.
Up to 90cm of snow cover in the region between Kurdzhali and Assenovgrad, while near Adrino snow cover is more than 70cm