The music formations Jazzanova and Landslide will be special guests of a series of parties on the Bulgaria Black sea coast.

For the summer evenings in Varna appearing also DJ Deep & Chateau Flight, Michael Rutten и Michael Reinboth.

The sea concerts will be dedicated to the new jazz, chill out, latino jazz, bossa nova, drum’n'bass, hause and the break beat sounding.

The series of events, organized by Cotton Records will occur between 25 July and 16 August in the sea capital of Bulgaria Varna.

Source: BG News

TOKYO: Bulgarian Kotooshu made history in Japan’s ancient sport of sumo Saturday as he became the first European to win an Emperor’s Cup.

The 25-year-old Bulgarian star needed only one win from his weekend bouts to claim the title. He crashed into opponent Ama’s chest, getting both arms wrapped around the Mongolian sekiwake’s “mawashi” belt to bulldoze him to the edge of the straw ring.

Kotooshu then tackled him from behind, throwing himself on top of the opponent who went smashing down to the dirt surface at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan arena.

The victory lifted Kotooshu, whose real name is Kaloyan Mahlyanov, to a 13-1 record, claiming the title with a bout to spare.

It was the first tournament win in a six-year-long sumo career for the 6-foot-7-inch (202-centimeter) Bulgarian, who switched to sumo having been an accomplished Greco-Roman wrestler in his homeland.

His father Stefanov stood with cheering crowd, waving a Bulgarian flag to celebrate his son’s victory, which took him 34 tournaments since his sumo debut in 2002.

“I’m too overwhelmed to say anything,” a beaming Kotooshu said in a televised interview. “I’m so happy. I finally did it.”

Kotooshu entered the tournament with the modest goal of getting more wins than losses to maintain his ozeki rank. But he conquered both grand champions Hakuho and Asashoryu and matched his previous best winning streak of 12 bouts.

“Today I was able to wrestle my sumo, and I was really moved,” said Kotooshu, after a firm handshake with his trainer Sadogatake.

Kotooshu was all smiles when he returned to his locker room, where he got his topknot fixed by a hair stylist.

“I still can’t believe it,” he said, then hugged his father.

Overall, Kotooshu is the seventh foreign wrestler to win a tournament title, after retired Hawaiian grand champions Akebono and Musashimaru, as well as Mongolian yokozuna Asashoryu and Hakuho.

Bulgarian Ambassador Blagovest Sendov hailed Kotooshu’s victory, calling him “a national pride.” Continued….

Source: The International Herald Tribune

Bulgaria celebrates the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavic Literacy today. It is the day of Bulgarian holy brothers’ St. st. Kiril and Metodiy, creators of the first Slavic written script – the Glagolica.

The holiday was celebrated for the first time in 1851, and since 1857 this holiday is celebrated regularly as the day of Slavic Literacy and Bulgarian Culture.

The day of Slavic literacy is feted in the honour of holy brothers st. st. Kiril and Metodiy.

There is presently no country which uses the created by them Glagolic, but it was replaced by the created by their student Kliment Ohridski, who developed their Clagolics and created the Cyrillic alphabet.

It consists of 24 Greek letters and other 12, signing specific for the Old Bulgarian language sounds.

The Old – Bulgarian is one of the first writing languages in Europe and turns Bulgaria into cultural center for the Slavic world as its written language is accepted as state one in some neighbour countries.

The forming of the literal Russian and Serbian languages is strongly influenced and helped by the Old – Bulgarian.

Source: International BG

The hysteria surrounding the concert of Kylie Minogue in Sofia is gradually and flawlessly building up across Bulgaria reported the Sofia Echo

If somehow, for any reason, you are still not aware when the concert takes place, it is at 8pm on May 18 at Locomotiv Stadium. And the organisers promise a unique show with dazzling costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier, light effects, huge video screens and impressive multimedia. So we hope, having heard about the spectacular show Minogue put on at the start of her tour in Paris on May 6.

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