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According to data from the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, 108 526 Bulgarians – a big Bulgarian city – have died from these and other diseases in 2018. Of these, 70 546 died from strokes and myocardial infarctions, and 17 462 from malignant tumors. In the same year, only 62 197 children were born. The drop in the population is 46 329 per year in a country with about 7 million population. By dividing 108 526 to 365, there are 297 – the saddest arithmetic in Europe, so many people die every day in Bulgaria! And only 170 children are born daily. Hence, in Bulgaria the song of the goat – tragedy (Greek, tragoudia; tragos – goat, aedin – sing) is continuing.

8. Follow your parents’ advice: WHAT DID I ARRIVE HERE FOR? – to study first, then rejoice – the reverse chronology is meaningless.
9. Healthy lifestyle and good education can ensure your quality of life (QoL).
10. Stay tuned, wise and independent (sapere aude), have the intellectual courage to cross (at least once) at a red light the road of science to make your own green path on it. To achieve your Eureka effects.
Then you can say: Vox Studentium vox Dei!

Bulgarian Community sponsors a festive meal during which we will meet and greet.
Metropolitan Joseph will address the community at the end of the meal.
Music and folk dancing will follow the meal.

The sale of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago for $2.5 million to Universal Life Church was approved Tuesday by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. The congregation of Holy Trinity will now have 75 days to vacate the building and…

The US State Department announced two changes to the Diversity Visa Program – also known as Green Card Lottery.
In changes announced in a document on the Federal Register, the State Department now explicitly states that individuals who enter the lottery but not provide all the required information will be disqualified from the lottery for that fiscal year. “Current instructions are not clear that failure to provide that information results in mandatory disqualification,” says the State Department. This includes not submitting a photograph or submitting a photograph that does not fit …

Last week in Craiova Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, experts and NGO representatives met and discussed serious radiological safety problems concerning the National RAW Repository at Kozloduy NPP site, currently under construction. 70% of the project for the National Repository for low and intermediate level short and long-lived RAW is funded by donor countries and administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Donor countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the main contributor the European Commission.

The Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra performs Saturday, August 10, 7PM at St. Sophia Bulgarian Orthodox Church, 404 W. Oakton, Des Plaines. Conducted by Philip Simmons, the orchestra performs traditional Bulgarian hymns, folk music, and music of Pancho Vladigerov, Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin, Antonio Vivaldi and Arvo Part. Violin soloist Violetta Todorova will be featured. The program, titled “Discover Bulgaria in Chicago” will also include an exhibit, “Spirit of Bulgarian Artists,” opening at 6PM.

The open air art installation appeared in the heart of Paris at the initiative of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Paris! The original benches, in the form of Bulgarian letters, will stay until the end of September this year.

65 authors from fourteen countries and five continents present the colorful face of Bulgarian literature in this country and around the world. Their works, published on EuroChicago.com, are part of a collection entitled “Horo above Tyrol”, which was published thanks to the support of Bulgarian emigrants. After “The Colorful Rug”, “The Clock Tower” and “Reader on Demand”, the new collection includes the poems and stories of both renowned and little-known authors with various professions.