Contents

The World We Live In

Prince Felipe and Princess Leticia inaugurated the Institute Cervantes in Sofia

Interview with Cesar Molina, Director of the Institutes Cervantes

Interview with Luisa Fernanda Garido, Director of the Institute Cervantes in Sofia

Exclusive Guest

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zdravko Popov, Minister Plenipotentiary, Director of the Diplomatic Institute to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Official visits

Analysis

• Kosovo - Geopolitical analysis by Prof. Dr. Stephan Karastoianov

Highlights

European Union

On the Top

• Interview with Diana Kishkilova, Manager of Hydrocomp – Thorn Spring OOD

The Law

• Interview with Sabrie Sapundjieva, Deputy Minister of Justice

The Fourth Estate

• Venelin Terziev, member of the Board of Managers of the Bulgarian Building and Construction Chamber: The Building Act will diminish the grey sector in the branch

Embassies. Holidays. Interviews

• Bulgarian Embassies
• 10 years diplomatic relations Bulgaria – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Interview with HE Mr. Hamdija Jahic, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria was the first to recognize Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state
• Reception on the occasion of 47th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution
• Reception on the occasion of India's National Day
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure of HE Mr. Jose Augusto Lindgren Alves
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure of HE Dr. Harald Kindermann
• Interview of Dr. Harald Kindermann for Deutsche Welle
• Bulgaria and Turkey have a lot to contribute to the stability and security of the region - HE Mr. Mehmet T. Gucuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey
• Perspectives of Cooperation and Partnership between Iraq and EU - Lecture by HE Mr. Haydar Al-Barrak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq, at the Diplomatic Institute
• Interview with HE Mr. Haydar Al-Barrak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq
• Reception on the occasion of the 15th anniversary since the establishment of the Visegrad Group
• Afghan women workshop in Sofia
• Meeting of HE Mr. Pham Quoc Bao, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with the team of Bulgarian Diplomatic Review
• Czech Cultural Center woos young people

Cultural panorama

• 250 years since the birth of Mozart
• Interview with Mr. Lothar Jaschke, Minister Councilor of the Austrian Embassy
• Duet Hessova-Wiesner in Sofia
• National Exhibition Caricature shows the best of 2005
• Re Soupault
• The seasons of Ivan Kraevski
• 170 years since the birth of Nikolay Pavlovich
• Archives are never out-of-date
• Museum and partner to contemporary art- Interview with Boris Danailov, Director of the National Art Gallery
• To preserve identity – the message of Robert Burns
• Todor Shopov – the Knight of the Unexpected Remark
• Cultural corridors - Turkey invited journalists from Bulgaria and Romania to the exhibition of Picasso in Istanbul
• We all have a Maritsa in our hearts Maria Konakchieva, PR of the French Institute

Achievements

• The ancient observatories of the Thracians - Interview Dr. Valeria Fol, Institute of Thracology, BAS
• New challenges before the information services of university libraries

High life

National cuisine

• Viet Nam

Editions of Bulgaria Bestseller

• Insight into the spiritual world of an artist - Interview with Dr. Maria Ovcharova, author of the book Beshkov and Altmaier
• Dreaming of Beshkov
• Premiere: Version International Politics
• Up the Ladder of European Politics and Culture
• Premiere: All the Words for Love

Bulgarian routes

• Sourvakas in Pernik drive away the evil from Europe
• Ethnographic Museum Sofia
• The power of the mask, or the power-vested's mask

Special supplement: Beshkov and Altmaier - Maria Ovcharova