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А wobbly but energetic granny somewhere far, far away, cooking from scratch in her humble house dishes that you can neither taste nor smell, but somehow understand deep in your gut are utterly delicious. Roosters crow, cows moo, birds chirp and fire crackles, while the granny and her family cook, clean and enjoy their hearty meals… There is a small but very popular subgenre of YouTube videos dedicated to old folks cooking traditional food in faraway corners of the world, from mountainous Azerbaijan to rural China.

1. En route to North Macedonia, you pass through which town?
A. Kalofer
B. Kardzhali
C. Kyustendil

2. Where is the Vacha reservoir?
A. In the Rhodope
B. In the Pirin
C. In the Rila

3. Which is Bulgaria's largest Danube city?
A. Ruse
B. Vidin
C. Silistra

You are violating my personal space.

Interim Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov responding to journalists when the crisis surrounding the legitimacy on his position will end

If anyone thinks that they toppled me from power, they are wrong. We toppled ourselves after we successfully finished our job.

Boyko Borisov, GERB, on the December 2025 mass protests that forced his government out of power

Until March everything was fine, but then some aberrations occurred.

Locals refer to it by its popular nickname, The Cucumber, rather than by its official urban plan address, which is a boring Block 77. Whether the British architect, Norman Foster, was inspired by it for his Gherkin in London, which he erected two decades later, will probably never be clarified, but the town it is in aspires to become the European Capital of Culture in 2032.

In Egypt at the time of the late dynasties, but before the Ptolemies, there was a severe shortage of sand as most of that valuable commodity had been used for the temples and the pyramids. Egyptian merchants tried to capitalise on the situation. They exported large quantities of cotton in an attempt to sell it to the proto-Russian tribes, who for their part, suffered shortages of the cotton they needed to make trendy clothes out of. The Egyptians, riding on camels loaded with "white gold," crossed the Bosporus, and reached the Strandzha mountain range, where they were met by Thracians.

Eighty-eight percent of its waters are dead owing to the high concentration of hydrogen sulphate. Through the centuries it has changed its name several times. Its shores colonised by Greeks, who promptly invented a plethora of myths and legends about it. Among those, the Golden Fleece and the Argonauts still tickles the imagination. It is in Europe, but it is still less known than, say, the Bering Sea. An enigma that continues to generate myths and legends.
 

It happens all the time. In parliament, they fight, pull and curse one another. After 5-10 minutes in the assembly hall, you need a psychotherapist.

Boyko Borisov, GERB leader

Are Xi Jinping and Putin younger than me?

Boyko Borisov on whether he is not too outdated to appeal to Gen Z

The result of the general election will be what it will be.

Toshko Yordanov, There Is Such a People party

1. Which of these town is in the Stara Planina mountain range?
A. Gabrovo
B. Kardzhali
C. Gotse Delchev

2. When you order kavarma, you get…
A. A plate of grilled sausages
B. Meat and vegetables stewed in an earthenware pot
C. A rice pie

3. What is the name of the famed ancient rock city in the Rhodope?
A. Castra Martis
B. Bukelon
C. Perperikon

The main reason is that it gained popularity due to a French couple, who lived in the north of Bulgaria, not far from Dve Mogili near Ruse, at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.

If you have spent in Bulgaria more than a Bansko ski weekend or a binge drinking tour of Sunny Beach, you have probably become familiar with a number of concepts, events and personalities firmly embedded in the Bulgarian national consciousness. The pagan ruler drinking wine from the severed head of a Byzantine enemy he'd just had killed is one. The creation of the alphabet that you still struggle to remember is another. The idea of lost Bulgarian might, when the country experienced its Golden Age and "spread on three seas" is as good as the previous two.