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The Bearded Russians in the Balkans



Photograph by Mikhail Evstafiev   

If you see a crowd of men with long robes and beards in the middle of the Romanian countryside, you have most likely stumbled upon the Lippovans.
These are ancestors of the Old Believers, who – because of religious persecution, left Russia at the end of the eighteenth century. They migrated to the southwest, settling in the Ukraine, Romania and Northeastern Bulgaria. Their largest colony is in Romania, where they make up 13 per cent of the population in the Danube Delta region.

Out of the 35,000 Lippovans in Romania, nearly 22,000 continue to inhabit Northern Dobrogea. Besides Romanian, the community also speaks an old Russian dialect. Unlike Eastern Orthodox Christians, the Old Believers cross themselves not with three but with two fingers and the men wear long beards.
 

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Espresso Gains Popularity in Greece

10 June 2009 | Espresso is increasing winning over the hearts (and palates) of Greeks and making its way to becoming the caffeine-loving nation’s favourite type of coffee.
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Useful Reads


Balkans
Through Another Europe (2009) | Edited by Andrew Hammond

When Henry Blount journeyed through Bosnia in the 1630s, two things struck him: the purity of the water and the great height of the Bosnians, which, he noted, “made me suppose them the offspring of those old Germans noted by Tacitus and Caesar for their huge size.”
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"Go and see it. It had me thinking about it for a long time" says Morelle Smith in her review of The Silence of Lorna.



Music


Greece
Unbearable Nostalgia, After Theo Angelopoulos

Eleni Karaindrou | Elegy of the Uprooting |Crammed/Dyukyan Meloman, 2006
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Sofia | Homo Urbanus Europeanus

In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.

RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet

Bulgaria D'Or

BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet

360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.

Old cannon

The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22

Spring in Sofia

Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet

Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea

Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev

Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast

Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova

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