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Interview with Prof. Dr. Mirjana Mirchevska: In popular customary practice, the terms right or wrong do not exist

20/01/2023 - 20:01

The cycle of t. n. "unchristened days" that run from Christmas to Epiphany. This is a festive time in which we celebrate every week with appropriate traditional customs related to food, fires, masking, water... These ritual rites are mainly pre-Christian, but integrated into the Christian tradition. We talked about this with Prof. Dr. Mirjana Mirchevska from the Institute of Ethnology...

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Traditional carnivals: The "unbaptized days" end with Ratevski Bamburci

20/01/2023 - 15:31

The non-baptized days, from Christmas to Epiphany, end traditionally with the Ratev bamburci on the day of the veneration of St. John. Apart from the local traditional masks, a festival is held for the ninth time on this day, where traditionally masked groups from Macedonia and abroad parade. Ratevski Bamburci is a manifestation in the village of Ratevo, Maleshevija, which takes place on 20...

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Before Christmas, Bulgarians mostly bought clothes and shoes, not food

11/01/2023 - 15:59

A long-unseen growth in sales of clothing and footwear was recorded in the November statistics. On an annual basis, the turnover of these merchants increased by 55,7 percent, the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria announced on Tuesday, "24Casa" reports. In the same period, inflation amounted to 16,9 percent, and this increase in turnover is partly due to the increase in...

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Pendarovski and Kovacevski at Christmas lunch at Mr. Stefan

09/01/2023 - 10:55

The head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archdiocese, Mr. Stefan, on the occasion of the Christmas holidays and his name day - the feast of the archdeacon and first martyr St. Stefan, today will prepare a traditional Christmas lunch for the head of state. The Christmas lunch is traditionally held at the residence of the Archbishop. Stefan, and some of the members of the Holy Synod of...

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VIDEO | Zelensky: The Russians are shelling with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas, but Bakhmut is holding on despite everything

08/01/2023 - 22:27

Volodymyr Zelensky again condemned what he said was Russia's failure to respect the truce it had declared for Orthodox Christmas. "The Russians shelled Kherson with incendiary munitions just after Christmas," he said, referring to the southern city that Russian forces abandoned in November. Attacks on Kramatorsk and other cities in Donbas - on...

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Interview with Prof. Dr. Mirjana Mirchevska: In popular customary practice, the terms right or wrong do not exist

Traditional carnivals: The "unbaptized days" end with Ratevski Bamburci

Before Christmas, Bulgarians mostly bought clothes and shoes, not food

Pendarovski and Kovacevski at Christmas lunch at Mr. Stefan

VIDEO | Zelensky: The Russians are shelling with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas, but Bakhmut is holding on despite everything

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Interview with Prof. Dr. Mirjana Mirchevska: In popular customary practice, the terms right or wrong do not exist

Traditional carnivals: The "unbaptized days" end with Ratevski Bamburci

Before Christmas, Bulgarians mostly bought clothes and shoes, not food

Pendarovski and Kovacevski at Christmas lunch at Mr. Stefan

VIDEO | Zelensky: The Russians are shelling with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas, but Bakhmut is holding on despite everything

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