Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. The “case of the 13 imams” sounds almost mythic. But the current case the Bulgarian government is prosecuting against 13 imams from the area...
Slovenia has virtually vaulted into Western Europe while Bulgaria has remained behind the informal Iron Curtain that continues to divide the developed from the developing parts of the region.
Tangra was censored and harassed, but managed to get its message across.
Dr. Robert Greenberg joined Hunter College in 2008 as a Dean and a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology. He has taught at Yale, Georgetown, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Greenberg is a specialist in South Slavic...
Workers in Bulgaria have more freedom, but with a price.
The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria has seen its membership drop from 2.5 million to 300,000 in recent years.
Bulgaria’s younger generation carries the past more lightly.
NGOs devoted to public works paradoxically became part of the wave of privatization that swept the region.
Sometimes interpeters have their fingers on the pulse of a country.
This outmigration is often referred to as a “brain drain,” though many who remained in Bulgaria bristle at this phrase.