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Article: Eastern block; Bulgarian dance group turned back British tourists in eisteddfod visa row.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2004
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Byline: STEVE BAGNALL
A MEMBER of a Bulgarian dance group told yesterday of her desperate protest involving British tourists in order to get a visa for the International Eisteddfod.
Manol Radichev, member Kalinka Dragamova, turned back a coach load of British tourists from her village in protest at being denied visas. Her action hit the headlines in Bul-garia this year. It sparked Bulgarian Embassy officials to intervene and negotiate travel documents to get them to their dream destination -- the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
Mrs Dragamova, who was Mayor of Gel a at the time, took a stand and stopped a bus load of tourists coming in to ...