Contents

A Change of Seasons

Exclusive Guest

• Mr. Rumen Ovcharov, Minister of Economy and Energy
• Mr. Sergey Narishkin, Vice Premier of the Russian Federation

Official Visits

Third of March

Highlights

Parliamentary Events

EU

• 50 years of the Treaty of Rome

Analyses

• Information and communication policy of the European Union
• Europe faces danger of a new ideological division
• A continent of the future
• Bulgarian scientists were the first to be acceded to the EU
• Europe is ageing
• Delivery receipts

The World

• Is there a Cold War?
• The right to self-determination
• Kosovo’s controlled independence
• North Korea exchanges peaceful atom for trouble-making oil
• The success of the security plan for Baghdad – victory of the forces of good in the world

Book

• Philosophy of World Politics

Credentials

Embassies. Holidays. Interviews

• Bulgarian Ambassador-designates
• Interview with H.E. Mr. Plamen Grozdanov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Russian Federation
• Interview with H.E. Dr. Meglena Plugchieva, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Federal Republic of Germany
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Republic of Cuba
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of India
• Reception of the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Sofia
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Republic of Serbia
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the State of Kuwait
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure from the country of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea H.E. Mr. Cheong Jai Sik
• 15 years diplomatic relations Bulgaria-Georgia

Cultural Panorama

• Caricature in 2006
• Unknown masterpieces
• Close-up of Bozhidar Ionov
• Pictures from the beginning of the century
• A gulp of beauty
• Guileless glance. Greece 1940-1980
• Our country
• The Day of the Russian Diplomats celebrated in Sofia
• Bulgaria officially launched the celebrations of the International Polar Year
• Bulgaria through the eyes of an American
• Ivo Hadjimishev and his wanderings in photography
• Open Doors Day of Bulgarian culture in Linz
• Nobody knows which way the world is going
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Bulgarian traces In Zolotoryovo

High Life

• Thai Cuisine Days
• Nedelya cakes in Stara Zagora
• Seventh Charity Vienna Ball in Sofia

The Other Diplomacy

• Mrs. Davorka Colic, wife of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Croatia to Bulgaria

Achievements

• H.E. Mr. Yves Saint-Geours bestowed the Academic Palms
• Interview: The Academic Palms in the past and present – Prof. Stoyan Atanasov

• Interview with Mrs. Gergana Todorova, manager of Ivana Consulting House EOOD

History

• 150th anniversary of Prince Alexander of Battenberg

Bulgarian Routes

• If you know about summer

Special Supplement: Diplomatic Records on the Ruination of Bulgarians from Macedonia and the Region of Edirne in the Times of Reforms 1904–08