Category Archives: in English

8 p.m., July 8, New York City, Lincoln Center

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Goran Bregovic, for the first time since his injury. Live, with full hall and full orchestra. I will be there; hope some of you, too.

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Round Bulgaria – jogging

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

From Peio I found out about Bojidar Antonov, who just finished a run around Bulgaria. Cool and congratulations! See his photo album, and read more about the idea (in English). A map of the roads which Bojidar has chosen is … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian Prosecutors launch formal investigation about Government deal with Microsoft

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

The prosecution office of the Bulgarian capital Sofia has launched a formal investigation about the contract Bulgaria has signed with a Microsoft distributor for the acquisition of software for the needs of the state administration. The investigation is based on … Continue reading →

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Bad news – Goran Bregovic fell from tree, broke vertebrae

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Terrible news: Goran Bregovic fell four meters from a cherry tree at his house, and broke vertebrae. Doctors in Belgrade say his condition is “stable without neurological complications”. I hope that he will be back on stage, and keep my … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian News Dissection

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Today the “Sega” daily publishes a lengthly article about the recent statistics data by Eurostat. Here are some excerpts from the article: What does the Bulgarian gets – Euro 1.65 / hour… In the EU the average level is Euro … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian NGO asks the worldwide Internet community to bring their top priorities during the coming IGF meeting

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

This is a press-release from ISOC-Bulgaria; as ISOC.bg website is going through changes, I prefer to publish it here, and at the ISOC’s site there is a link to this article. Internet Society Bulgaria being an active participant at the … Continue reading →

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My DNA

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

I did a research of my DNA from my Father’s side via the Genographic Project of National Geographic. (UPDAYE: here’s the maternal DNA report) The results may be surprising for some of the Bulgarian historians and scientists. I am copying … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian News Dissection – 5

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

ABC News informed about the elections in Macedonia. They quote a story by the Associated Press, which starts like this: Shootings that led to at least one death and allegations of ballot fraud forced elections officials to suspend voting in … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian News Dissection – 4

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Bulgarian “Trud” daily publishes today an editorial, under the headline “USA points us our new rulers“. And continues… “…The leaders of the SDS* Plamen Yurukov and of GERB* Tsvetan Tsvetanov are on their way to the USA, invited by the … Continue reading →

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From the history of the Internet in Bulgaria

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

This below was written 10 years ago. It was done when the then .bg ccTLD decided to start charging for registration of domain names in the .bg space. Digital Systems Slavov & Co – Varna, which due to historic reasons … Continue reading →

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