Here follows a bit of demographic speculation. It’s guesswork right now, but we’ll know in a year or two if I’m right. Interesting Fact #1: birthrates tend to drop during recessions, and the drop tends to correlate with both the severity of the recession and the speed of its onset....

My Peace Corps training was held over 11 weeks during the summer of 2000. The 65-odd trainees* all lived with host families in a town in western Bulgaria named Dupnitsa.** The Jerman River*** flows through Dupnitsa and I would cross it every morning on my way to our training classes. Bulgaria, to my...

I’ve already blogged about it in Bulgarian, but in the light of the coming visits of Mr. Boyko (Boiko) Borissov in the United States, I think it is important to have the story in English, too, with updates from my initial post.* The Kokkalist program of the Harvard Kennedy School announced tha...

On January 20, 2009 Rod Adams spoke with Alexandra Prokopenko to get a local view of the effects on Eastern Europe of the Ukraine/Russia natural gas supply dispute. Alexandra is a citizen of Belarus who currently lives and works in Sweden. Her husband is living in Kiev, Ukraine and she speaks to him...

Family Holidays 1 Swap Corfu for ... Korcula A long-time family favourite, Corfu offers an ideal mix of bustling resorts, long sandy beaches and stunning Venetian architecture in Corfu town. The Croatian island of Korcula, however, can match it on almost every front - wooded hills, unspoilt beaches ...

Sesil Karatantcheva who became the first women in tennis to be suspended for a positive steroid test returned to action in Australia.  The Bulgarian sat out two years for a positive nandrolone test.  When she tested + for the drug she claimed the result was due to pregnancy.  To The A...

Bulgarian archaeologists unearth well-preserved ancient chariot SOFIA A- A bronze chariot dating to the second century AD has been unearthed in a Thracian burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists ......

Din cand in cand tot imi promit ca o sa ma abonez la diverse feed-uri prin RSS, cum ar fi la ziare din Romania dar tot timpul uit si tot timpul imi blestem zilele cand vad cate stiri se aduna dupa doua zile de necitit. La Evenimentul Zilei nu ma abonasem dar via zoso, prin ‘Paradoxul Educatiei...

The talented and always sexy Alicia Keys graces the cover of Bulgarian Cosmo this month.  The songstress shows off some skin with some plunging necklines and high cut dresses.  In any language Alica Keys = DAMN! Post from: Celebrity Gossip from Celebridiot Alicia Keys is sexy in Bulgaria ---Relate...

1.  Eleven Bulgarian weightlifters fail doping tests; dog bites man. (Reuters) 2.  A Chinese swimmer banned for life -- tested for Clen.  (Swim News) 3.  Euro 1500 M runner Sureyya Ayhan of Turkey appeals lifetime doping ban.  (USA Today) 4.  Says blaming Big Brown's Be...