How the Balkan countries, including Bulgaria, are trying to cope with the challenges? Turkey is the only country to have a real positive population growth rate of 1.32 percent last year.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The late linguist Max Weinreich put it best. “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy,” he said almost a century ago. The distinction, in other words, has less ...

In this article: Balkans, Language, Politics, society Written By AFP With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world as a leading global news agency.

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) -- Iran held a one-day seminar on the impact of the Persian language on the regional languages of the Balkans at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia last week.

How the invasion of Ukraine is repainting the map of the Balkans. Doug Saunders. Published June 9, 2023. This article was published more than 1 year ago. Some information may no longer be current.

Nicotine addicts in Bosnia are warned three times on their cigarette packets that "Pusenje ubija" ("Smoking kills") -- but this isn't an attempt to hammer home the health message. The warning is ...

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