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"Banya Bashi" Mosque, Sofia, Bulgaria - F.Martino

Islam in Bulgaria, competing generations

Sofia | Tanya Mangalakova | 5 January 2011 ita

For the last 13 years, Bulgaria's Islamic community has been split by competing leaderships. However, the fight for control of the General Council of the Muftis – the representative body of Islam in Bulgaria – is not only a clash between factions but also between old and new generations



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Bulgaria: Euro-Nomads

Sofia | Tanya Mangalakova | 19 August 2010 ita

They make the most of electronic communication and low-cost flights. They live inbetween the “here” of their country of origin, and the “there” of the one they have chosen to work in. They use multiple identities. They are the “Euro-nomads”, a group on the constant rise, even in Bulgaria



Bulgarian cinema: Mission London

Bulgarian cinema: Mission London

Sofia | Tanya Mangalakova | 12 May 2010 ita

For the Western viewer, a well-acted comedy; for the Bulgarian audience, crazy laughs as well as disillusionment for the broken dreams of transition and an elite that turned out to be dishonest and useless. Now in cinemas, Mission London, from Alek Popov's best-seller



Like a house of cards: Zhelyu Zhelev and the Bulgarian 1989

Like a house of cards: Zhelyu Zhelev and the Bulgarian 1989

Sofia | Tanya MangalakovaFrancesco Martino | 10 November 2009 ita

On November 10th, 1989, Bulgaria sees the end of Zhivkov and the single party. The events of that year, the ethnic question, and the attempts at lustration in an interview with Zhelyu Zhelev, philosopher and dissident in the years of the regime and first democratically elected president after the fall of the Berlin Wall.



In December 1989, 20 years ago, Timişoara citizens fought alone against the regime of Ceausescu. The memories of Ioan Savu, one of the leaders of that revolution, and professor Miodrag Milin, the first to collect the stories of those days. A videoreportage by Davide Sighele and Francesco Martino

Philosopher, dissident, politician. Zhelyu Zhelev has been the first Bulgarian president democratically elected after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A videointerview [Bulgaria, 2009]

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