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A 5.6 magnitude earthquake, the strongest since 1917, shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia and the perimeter zone of around 100 km last night, followed by a number of strong aftershocks. No victims have been reported so far. The website Earthquake Reports has published live updates and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook were the first ones to spread the news. The hashtag #земетресение (”earthquake”) is used to communicate on the event through Twitter.
Young Bulgarians and guests from Italy, with support of the New Bulgarian University and project “Beautiful Europe” [bg] will meet on May 23 to discuss the “European idea” and what Europe means to Bulgarians at an event called “Blue Night” - an evening dedicated to the European idea [bg]. The event comes just one day before one of the brightest Bulgarian holidays - the Day of Slavic writing and culture.
Activists in Bulgaria have called for national protests against shale gas extraction on May 22. There is a Facebook event [bg] “National protest against shale gas and changes in Forest Law!”. Tensions are growing after The Greens' activist posted a video [bg] showing a secret meeting between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) representatives and Chevron officials.
In the final segment of the report [ru] on the May 6 protest in Moscow, which ended in clashes with riot police, the Russian state-owned Channel 1 mentioned, among other things, a Spanish draft law [en] criminalizing online organization of public protests, as an example of the “much tougher” treatment of protesters by the “colleagues” of the Russian law enforcement officials “in the countries with the so-called established democracy.”
Sandra Jürs blogged in Estonian about her participation in the Skopje Marathon/Half-Marathon [mk, en] on May 6, 2012.
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I have recently invited Mr. Michael Manske to my newly created blog (www.mariadracula.blogspot.com), where Eastern European and other Diasporic authors may post their experiences about their lives in both the old and the new worlds.
Although he rejected my invitation, I take it that his revealing of the formulaic species existent within a certain kind of journalism about other countries is a valid one.
I draw on my experience with Romania and the various stereotyped (positive or negative) portrayals it gets in the academic world. The stereotypes vary from Western Europe to North America in both tone and charge. Sometimes they’re fun (“Dracula’s country,” which in fact inspired me to write my book and call my blog), other times they’re discouraging (“backward” country).
Hopefully, readers will find interesting books on Amazon.com about Romania’s cuisine, or even dare–like Michael Manske is doing with Slovenia–to step into its not-so-cold waters.