He's a softly spoken chemical engineering graduate, devoted family man, talented linguist and budding writer with an IQ rumoured to be nudging 160. I'm meeting him at his workplace. But it's not a science lab. Neither has my interviewee just penned a scientific treatise. Actually, he's been driving across Bulgaria, pursued by Russian mafia villains. Don't get alarmed. You see, the academic also has a penchant read more

You would not drop by Belogradchik on your way somewhere else. Beyond the town, both the road, and Bulgaria itself, come to an end. Though in the midst of the country’s poorest region, in the past there was a flourishing city culture here. Now, this can only be proven by a chemical analysis of its crumbling faзades. read more

To celebrate South Africa’s national day – Freedom Day, April 27, the anniversary of the country’s first democratic elections – ambassador Gerhard Visser and his wife Janette hosted a reception on April 24 at the Sofia City Art Gallery. read more

Latchezar Boyadjiev is a Bulgarian sculptor who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. One of his works, called Angels, was admired so much by Hillary Clinton that it founds its way to the White House. He studied glass sculpture under the renowned Czech professor Stanislav Libensky, so he fell in love with glass as the only material to work with once and for all. He defected to the US in 1986 and has since made San Francisco his home. It’s difficult to enumerate all the awards he has received, among which figure the Award of Excellence of the Habitat Galleries in Michigan. It’s even more difficult to enumerate his solo exhibitions; they range from Cleveland, Ohio, to Toronto in Canada, from Hamburg in Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. read more