Contents

Dear Readers

Exclusive Guest

• Prof. Georgi Petkanov, Minister of Justice

Official Visits

Highlights

Presidential Elections 2006

Parliamentary Meetings

European Union

Analyses

• The Autumn of Pledges Redeemed
• European Labour Market Failed to Get Nearer to Bulgaria
• Improving Bulgaria’s Legislation
• Competitiveness and Innovation in Modern Europe 2007–13
• European Integration Model

The Fourth Estate

• The 6th Training seminar of the OLAF Anti-Fraud Communicators’ Network was held in Bulgaria

Comments

• H.E. Mr. Hayder S. Al-Barrak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq: The Former Dictator Received His Sentence The Process of National Reconciliation Continues

Credentials

Embassies. Holidays. Interviews

• Bulgarian Embassies
• 70 Years Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Budapest
• 15 Years Diplomatic Relations Bulgaria – Ukraine. Bulgarians and Ukrainians over the Centuries
• Interview with Mr. Dimiter Vladimirov, Charge d’affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ukraine
• Interview with Mrs. Liubov Nepop, Charge d’affaires of the Embassy of Ukraine in Bulgaria
• Reception on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution
• Hungary 1956. The Response in Bulgaria
• Reception on the occasion of the United Nations Day
• Reception on the occasion of the National Day of the Czech Republic
• Reception on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Austria
• Reception on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey
• Reception on the occasion of the visit of Algerian delegation of experts
• H.E. Mr. Gian B. Campagnola – Doctor Honoris Causa of the New Bulgarian University
• The Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta, H.E. Jean-Pierre Mazery – Doctor Honoris Causa of the State Institute of Library Studies and Information Technologies
• Interview with H.E Mr. Philippe Beke, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium

Cultural Panorama

• 110 Years National Academy of Arts
• Exhibition 110 Years NAA
• Zidarov and Bukov at the National Art Gallery
• Art of the Bulgarian Book
• 400 Years of the Birth of Rembrandt
• King Ferdinand’s Archives Back to Bulgaria
• Women artists and architects in Bulgaria’s modern art
• Natural/Mythological in Krag+ Gallery
• The exhibition Nudes of Stoyan Stoyanov
• Piracy Robs!
• Wooden Madonnas from Lucania
• The Inspirations of Rafael Arias
• Irregular Forms in Natural Setting
• 160 years since the birth and 90 years since the death of Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Days of Japanese Culture in Bulgaria
• Lyuben Dimanov’s hunger for painting
• The Poet of the Piano Atanas Kurtev
• Fifth Liszt-Bartok Piano Competition
• Innovatory music and Slavonic melodies unite us with Europe
• Sir Neville Marriner opened the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra season
• Orlin Anastasov: The Truth about the Opera Lies in Ourselves
• TanGhost – theatre and tango on Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Achievements

• The Amazon of Varoe is the Bulgarian Novel of the Year
• Awards for the National Enlighteners
• The Prince and the Pauper took the Grand Prix at a festival in Saint Petersburg
• Switzerland Supports Bulgarian Projects
• 20 Years Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy, Sliven
• EU Info Centre in Bulgaria Celebrates 5th Anniversary
• Georgi Mishev is this year’s Laureate of the Grand Prize for Literature of Sofia University
• Bulgarians Decorated with Prestigious Russian Orders

Health

• October – International Month of Fighting Osteoporosis
• For a longer and dignified life

Bulgarian Routes

• Interview with Mr. Zlatko Stoichev Mayor of Radomir Municipality
• Dolen – Rhodope Inspiration

Forums

• The 7th International Meeting of Rectors
• Salutatory by President Georgi Parvanov

Special Supplement: The Marvellous Busintsi Ceramics