HOT: » What kind of news would you like to see more of? one of Bulgaria's most popular ski resorts has been left entirely without electricity as confirmed by a statement on the resort's official Facebook page According to the electricity distribution company power supply in the area is expected to be restored around 2:00 p.m the ski area will remain closed until noon Other parts of the Samokov municipality have also reported unplanned power outages with the company estimating repairs will be completed by the end of the day Heavy snowfall has caused widespread power outages across the country districts such as Dragalevtsi and villa zones including "Kiliite," Simeonovo-Dragalevtsi and Bistritsa have been without electricity since yesterday Electricity in these locations is expected to return by 12:30 p.m Several settlements in Pleven have also reported power interruptions The electricity distribution company has provided a timetable for restoring power in affected areas and Pleven is scheduled to be restored by 8:00 a.m. while Kyustendil and Letnitsa are expected to have power by 8:30 a.m Treklyano should have electricity by 9:00 a.m. Power restoration is planned for noon in Borovets and Pravets are expected to regain power by 12:30 p.m. while Etropole and Elin Pelin are scheduled for 1:00 p.m In Lukovit and other settlements in Pleven with Svoge and Teteven expected to have electricity by 2:00 p.m The power disruptions have also affected train services with Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) reporting temporary suspensions Train services between Tsareva Livada and Gabrovo have been halted due to fallen branches on the tracks and a lack of voltage in the contact network power outages between Debelets and Krastets stations have disrupted schedules Passenger trains on routes such as Gorna Oryahovitsa–Stara Zagora and Dabovo–Gorna Oryahovitsa have been canceled due to damage to the contact network Passengers from these routes are being redirected to alternative services We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria Bulgaria commemorates one of its most significant national holidays – the Day of Saint George the Victorious and the official Day of the Bulgarian Army all retailers in Bulgaria will be required to display prices in both leva and euros Employers in Bulgaria are legally required to implement all necessary measures to prevent and minimize workplace accidents a major British tour operator specializing in holidays to Bulgaria has halted all its operations effective April 24 Wage growth in Bulgaria is projected at 9.3 percent for 2025 a 15.4 percent rise in the minimum wage since January The World Bank has revised down its forecast for Bulgaria’s economic growth in 2025 The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology forecasts that May will bring temperatures ranging from 2°C to 33°C across Bulgaria the weather will be mostly sunny—around and after midday cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds will develop Bulgaria and Greece have signed a draft Joint Declaration regarding the use of the Arda River waters over the next five years following a decision by the Bulgarian Council of Ministers The weather across Bulgaria on May 1 will begin with sunshine in the morning followed by an increase in cloud cover during the afternoon The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria has repealed legislative changes made two years ago that permitted the installation of photovoltaic (solar) systems on arable agricultural land Bulgaria will experience mostly sunny weather accompanied by a light to moderate east-northeast wind Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update Housing Prices Soar in Bulgaria’s Major Cities as Demand and Supply Strain Increase Where did you fly first in Flight Simulator I'm intrigued by the question because I think it reveals so much Eventually I did - I flew over Brighton Pier a flight I've been lucky enough to do in real-life albeit in the back of a tiny plane while my brother flew it It was a present for his birthday (we're twins so I got to go along) And I tell you what: those small planes get buffeted around by the wind a lot and don't do what we did and get an instructor who thinks it's hilarious to let go of the controls so those young lads on board get a thrill I went there because that's where my partner grew up so I thought I'd surprise her by flying over her home (a lovely town called Teteven) And it worked: she was glued to the screen She began narrating the journey like a tour guide there's suchandsuch!" And "Oh I love these mountains." And "There's that bridge we went over in the coach!" And we did go over that bridge on a coach Something struck me about Flight Simulator at that moment: it struck me how worldly the game is which I know sounds a bit silly and obvious but let me explain but they tend to be focused on a rotating list of the same famous places: New York entire countries and parts of the world are left out But in Flight Simulator you can fly almost anywhere in the world and it will be more or less as you remember it I know some locations are more detailed than others You can look at the place and tell it's home And for people whose homes are often overlooked by games I think it's part of the reason I chose Bulgaria first It makes Flight Simulator truly a global kind of game It also gives the game an almost peerless power to appeal to spectators - something magnified by the recent Xbox Series S/X (and Game Pass) release You put that game on the big TV in your house and I bet you can suck in almost any bystander They're watching something they fundamentally relate to: their world I don't always realise it living in the boundaries of my world day-to-day And with no super-speeds or shortcuts in Flight Simulator I never would have thought an idea like using real-world map data in a game would strike me quite in the way it has © 2025 Eurogamer.net a brand of IGN Entertainment No part of this website or its content may be reproduced without the copyright owner's permission Eurogamer is a registered trademark of Gamer Network Limited Billa Bulgaria invested over BGN 100 million (€51 million) in 2024 including BGN 44 million (€23 million) in a new logistics base near Stara Zagora and nearly BGN 60 million (€31 million) in store expansion and renovations including locations in Teteven and Svishtov bringing the total to 165 stores in 51 cities by the end of the year Billa Bulgaria plans to invest over BGN 60 million (€31 million) in 2025 of which BGN 44 million (€22 million) will be for the opening of 13 new stores expanding Billa’s presence in existing cities and potentially entering smaller settlements like Vidin over BGN 14 million (€7 million) will be allocated for renovating six existing branches to align with modern retail trends and enhance customer experience around BGN 4.7 million (€2.4 million) will complete the new warehouse optimising logistics in Eastern Bulgaria and improving delivery efficiency Contact us: info@rli.uk.com A young Bulgarian artist decided to leave this world in the middle of the past century in order to preserve his incorruptibility even though he was defeated by the system on a purely physical level in the gallery of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Paris but also sending messages that with their relevance revive practices that were supposedly forever left in the past was born in 1944 in Teteven – a small town in the embrace of high mountains "He seemed to have two roles – of a loner and at the same time he enjoyed having many friends and the good conversations with them which is quite normal for a person devoted to art,” gallerist and curator of the exhibition His talent was noticed in his first school years in his hometown and he graduated from the art high school in Sofia with honors Painting turned out to be the initial step that led him to the "Sculpture" speciality at the Academy of Arts Although he left this world at the age of 24 in his work he touches on topics more befitting a white-bearded old wise man It is as if time made him grow up so quickly or perhaps it was a premonition of the number of his days left here A folder of watercolor works found by chance in the attic of the family house in Teteven became the earliest evidence of Margo's first serious attempts at art military order and a stove with a long chimney in the dormitory human silhouettes hinted at with a light brushstroke his profound search to materialize the world his rather serious and insightful attitude to the things of life,” Olimpia Nikolova points out “The drawings that we include in the exhibition are an attempt to dematerialize everything that he achieved in watercolors We have heard that Margo walked with a book of Lao Tzu under his arm and was engaged in this philosophy So our task was to show his deep and serious attitude to the world through the art that he created." Margarit Tsanev depicts a man with his arms spread like wings he himself jumped from a high cliff in the Balkan Mountain near Teteven Was Margo's depression personal or rooted in his social life his friends cannot give a definitive answer an indisputable fact is the last straw - the student who had been suspended for a year heard the words from the mouth of the dean of the Academy of Arts: "Hey go shave your beard and when you look good come and we would enroll you as a student," according to a testimony in the film "Margo and Friends." The young man who grew a beard as a sign of mourning for his deceased mother and father did not listen to the irrevocable "advice." spiritual aristocrat and did not comply with anything except nature and his talent - that's why they refused to enroll him in the next course not just because of his beard," one of his friends says This was followed by expulsion and forced deportation to his native Teteven "I think that this final act is a categorical sign of unbearability,” Olimpia Nikolova says “It is no coincidence that friends and people who knew Margo respect his personality and his work so much it is important that there are outsiders in a society that there are people like these friends and like Margarit Tsanev himself because they become a corrective that makes us not only think but also not allow this type of repressions." The rebellion against the system is evident in his works bodies are transformed into lifeless objects into modules that build monuments and temples Those crowned with glory are contemptible and pitiful," Olimpia Nikolova adds "Despite the isolation of Bulgaria at that time such as Margarit Tsanev became an absolute equivalent of everything that happens in world phenomena," Olimpia Nikolova says This is what viewers at the Cultural Institute in Paris currently see in his works in the exhibition "Flight" (until May 23) - "a flight of a rebellious spirit who challenged the false dominant values ​​of his time and became an example of how “the weak becomes strong" (Lao Tzu) creating a small but sustainable civic society that invisibly corrects" A pianist and conductor with a world-class career Ivan Yanakov has been performing on several continents for decades He has played as a soloist with prestigious orchestras in famous halls The Night of Musicals takes place tonight at the Vasil Levski Palace of Culture and Sports in Veliko Tarnovo The first major ballet event in the festive jubilee programme celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Stara Zagora Opera is the premiere of "Parisian Nights" english@bnr.bg My creed is - I pray that every day there will be a tomorrow shared from Frankfurt in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio the iron five of the star national football team of Bulgaria and former national coach Petar Hubchev not to be arrogant in life and in everything we do he recommended and gave as an example the comments about the Bulgarian championship "We speak as if we were almost world champions and such names.. The former central defender is fighting the biggest battle - against the insidious diagnosis of cancer In the interview for the program "RadioTochka" on the Bulgarian National Radio the spring chirping of birds could be heard near where I live in Frankfurt - and I am walking" And once again he proved why he is the "iron five": "There is no point in complaining and despairing which is to continue to do what the doctors tell me and to be lucky." And he admits that he was lucky to end up in the right places for the treatment of the oncological disease - the university clinic in Frankfurt Khubchev thanks his family for their strength about the small gestures of the people from his native village of Glozhene Stiliyan Petrov and his wife helped us immensely in the first days after I heard the diagnosis I listened to Stiliyan and announced my illness he says that this is the greatest feeling - watching how 3 – 4-year-old children play "now I understand why grandchildren love each other more than children" He admits that he is worried about the future of his children and grandchildren we will strive to educate them in the best way we were educated," he says Khubchev also commented on the successes of Bulgarian football in the USA in 1994 and the European Championship in 1996 and believes that after that our football continued by inertia he gave how teams in the second Bundesliga play home matches in front of 50,000 - 60,000 spectators And the people who fix matches are different they are not from the gambling business: "My personal opinion is that the people involved in gambling are not the people who fix matches here or there but they are not the people who harm football they are different people around football." Hubchev said that he does not have the physical ability to return as a coach More news from Sport On All Saints Feast marked today by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the Metropolitan of Lovech Gavriil served a liturgy in the All Saints Church in the town of Teteven All Saints is the Sunday after the Sunday of the Saint Trinity a day to honor the greatest people who have done good have sacrificed their pride and personal interests for the sake of God’s justice and have had great love for humans proved in their deeds Bulgarians too have many martyrs whom they know nothing about so this is the day to commemorate them on All Saints Sunday Foreign Minister Georgi Georgiev has left for Washington where he will participate in the Munich Leaders Meeting (May 5-7 The forum is organised by the Munich Security Conference The foundation Unity- Kočani has sent an open letter to key Bulgarian institutions expressing gratitude for the support and humanitarian assistance provided by Bulgaria after the tragedy of the fire at a nightclub in Kočani The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and Greece Georg Georgiev and Giorgos Gerapetritis signed a joint declaration on the use of the waters of the river Arda on 2 May the BNR reports citing an announcement published by the Greek Foreign Ministry.. people will be able to withdraw money  from ATMs only in the new currency according to the website of the Bulgarian. helicopters of the Bulgarian Air Force will fly at low altitude over Sofia in preparation for a military parade marking the Day. The Bulgarian student teams that participated in the European Olympiad of Experimental Sciences EOES 2025 in Zagreb have returned with. 1982) represents the Northern folklore region of Bulgaria and performs songs from the town of Teteven in the Central Balkan Range Her childhood went in the small village of Glozhene located in the picturesque valley of the River Vit The mountain people living in this part of Bulgaria are proud and freedom-loving In 1871 the leader of the Bulgarian national-liberation movement Vasil Levski founded in Teteven one of the strongest clandestine revolutionary committees The people from Glozhene were active in the anti-Turkish detachments led by Panayot Hitov and Hristo Botev as well as in the Bulgarian volunteer corps during the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation in 1877 and 1878 All this was part of the first patriotic lessons that Nikoleta learned at home and in school what gave her a direction to art was the beauty that surrounded her This is a place of Bulgaria with great natural scenery animated in a host of fascinating legends From stories told by relatives Nikoleta found out that her great grandfather had been a good shepherd’s flute player so music could have been already in her genes like singer Lalka Pavlova who was the first to show to young Nikoleta the beauty of the Teteven song and Marin Ivanov he left a wealth in my heart,"is what she said about him."When I was a little girl I went to the community center and he urged me to start singing and he was listening to me with eyes closed I am happy to have met and been in touch with him: a humble man with a sense of humor and with great love for his country Our last encounter was on the occasion of the anniversary of the school in Cherni Vit where he taught me music I sang a song and I remember that he told me to keep the purity of the Teteven song.” During her debut recording session at the Bulgarian National Radio in 2009 Nikoleta included a folk song arranged by Marin Ivanov At the school in Cherni Vit Nikoleta Nikolova was trained to play the traditional instrument pandore Her training continued at a higher level at the Panayot Pipkov Music Scholl in Pleven At that point the young singer began to experience recognition for her work She won the First Prize in the contest in Teteven the prize for Special Guest at the folklore festival in Koprivshtitsa and the First Prize from the contest Songs About Kapitan Petko Voivoda in Varna on the Black Sea Nikoleta Nikolova has graduated the Academy for Music and Dance in Plovdiv with a major in folklore singing ”The Academy has enriched me tremendously” “I met colleagues from various folklore regions of Bulgaria and was acquainted with their art since my professor Ana Kushleva had come from that southern mountain region I owe her a lot for my development as a folk singer During my second year at the academy I joint the Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria Choir and working with that group was something new and important for me With the choir I had the chance to sing before an international audience – in Austria Part of the job was also experimenting – with ethno-jazz film music and various interpretations of Bulgaria’s incredibly rich music folklore I was lucky to work with conductor Vanya Moneva who revealed to us the beauty of choral singing.” Recently Nikoleta Nikolova has finished her MA at the University of Sofia on the dialect aspects of the Teteven songs as part of the folklore of the Northern Bulgarian region We’ve all heard of ideas that come to artists in their dreams That’s exactly how the melody for Orlin Pavlov’s new single “Syanka/Shadow” was born — he dreamt it he turned to brothers Milen Kukosharov and Rosen Kukosharov to bring the. The first edition of the Senza Frontiere International Music Stars Festival will bring together children and young people from all over Europe in the resort of Albena from 17 to 21 June 2025 The festival includes a competition and provides a platform. the Bulgarian jazz duo Wladigeroff Brothers will perform in Toronto in a concert entitled Jazz Sketches Eli Yordanov of the Elarte Foundation in Canada announced on Facebook that the concert by the. The first edition of the Senza Frontiere International Music Stars Festival will bring together children and young people from all over Europe in the. That’s exactly how the melody for Orlin Pavlov’s new single “Syanka/Shadow” was born — he. a village in Vidin region is located in Bulgaria’s northwesternmost point the village was founded in the 19th century by Grandpa Shishko from Teteven and with him came whole families from the same town in Central Bulgaria turning it into one of the biggest settlements in this part of the country with more than 2,000 inhabitants In our day there are no more than 50 elderly people left living in the village As a result of a string of unfortunate events that befell the village around the time of the communist-era collectivization at the beginning of the 1950s and later because there was no means of livelihood here many of the people moved away from the village Around the mid-20th century it gained a sinister kind of notoriety with stories of wandering spirits legends of wood-nymphs and outlandish wedding songs which still titillate the curiosity of mystery seekers of all generations and the village is said to be the most mysterious place in Bulgaria Much has been written about the “paranormal phenomena” in and around Shishentsi The stories of spirits from the past wandering the streets of the deserted village at night have brought in many tourists who come here to “see for themselves” former secretary of the village chitalishte (cultural community club) who talked to Katya Borissova “When the wood-nymphs appear there is the sound of music in the air and it is not clear where it comes from But no one can explain the things going on here We hear wedding music and a hubbub of voices But now that there are airplanes flying overhead the sounds are rarer.” It is a sad thing that in less than 20 years Shishentsi itself will probably have faded away like a ghost of the past Neither legends nor 100-year old tradition is likely to preserve a village like this The tranquility and the pristine nature are not enough to bring young people back to the towns and villages along the border or breathe life into them children came to school here from three surrounding villages but that was about 50 years ago,” says the village’s deputy-mayor Hristina Kalcheva The school has a dormitory and I was thinking it could be turned into a retirement home But nobody wants to come and work here and care for the home’s residents when they are gone the village will be gone with them The government should do something to help this border region I very much hope that one day the village will be reborn nature is pristine but how can tourism be developed when there are no people?” Editing by Gergana ManchevaPhotos: private library Only on the Day of Bravery and Holiday of the Bulgarian Army (May 6) we will provide our visitors with the opportunity to enter three of perhaps the most interesting machines from our outdoor exhibition Dozens of enthusiasts and nature lovers will kick off the 44th edition of the Move and Win campaign with a spring hike to Bozhur Hut The meeting point will be the Vladishki Bridge in Veliko Tarnovo The third edition of the Samardala Festival will be held on 3 May in the central square of Nova Zagora is used as a spice and is harvested at the peak of its flowering in May we will provide our visitors with the opportunity to enter three.