Contents

The Resurrection of Bulgaria

The 130th Anniversary since the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation of 1877–78

• Official Visit of the President of the Russian Federation
• Russia and Bulgaria Today: a Healthy Pragmatism and Mutual Respect
• H. E. Mr. Plamen Grozdanov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Russian Federation
• H. E. Mr. Anatoly Potapov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, on the Bulgarian-Russian relations

Analyses

• Vladimir Putin: Bulgaria is Russia’s Privileged and Reliable Partner 
• The Bulgarian Interest in the Russian Geostrategic Trajectory 

Official Visits 

Highlights 

Parliamentary Meetings 

EU 

Slovenia Holds EU Presidency

• H. E. Dr. Vladimir Atanasov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Republic of Slovenia 
• H. E. Mr. Ladislav Lipic, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia 
• The South-East European Cooperation Process 
• Back to the old but reformed treaties 
• Sylvie Goulard: My First Priority Is a Stable and Solid European Union 
• The Competitiveness of the Bulgarian Economy Compared to the Other EU Member States 
• The EC’s Report Is a New Action Incentive

Diplomatic Institute

• Lection by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Armen Baibourtyan 

The Law 

• Prof. Talia Khabrieva presents her book on the autonomies in Bulgaria

The Fourth Estate  

• A Bulgarian Became European ‘Journalist of the Year’ 2007 

Embassies. Celebrations. Interviews 

• Bulgarian Embassies
• Christmas Reunion of Bulgarians in Ukraine
• Interview with H.E. Mrs. Snezhana Naidenova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Montenegro
• Exclusive Guest: H. E. Mr. Camillo Zuccoli, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta 
• Interview with H. E. Mrs. Zahida Ansari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Republic of Albania 
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of Japan 
• Reception on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Republic of Cuba 
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of India 
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Islamic Republic of Iran  

The Other Diplomacy

• Mrs. Lubomira Faller, wife of the Hungarian ambassador here: Bulgaria feels like home to me

Cultural Panorama

• Reality and fairy tale about Kazakhstan in the works by Erbolat Tolepbay 
• Shipka 6 turns 35 
• The European city through the eyes of the young 
• The soft lyricism of Russi Ganchev 
• National Exhibition Bulgarian Archaeology 2007 
• The Silver Bible in Sofia 
• Dedicated to Yavorov 
• Traditions through the modern camera lens
• The wooden horse takes us to Wolf Harranth 
• French sculptor Alain Rois is “absolutely in love with Bulgaria“
• To a concert with Euphoria 
• The Russian Church in Sofia marks 100 Years 
• A consecration ceremony of the bell of the St. George church in Edirne 
• 2008 – the Year of Intercultural Dialogue
• Home, sweet home ... (Refugees) 

Achievements

• Mini Nobel Prize for an alumna of the Medical University of Varna 
• Eminent Bulgarians receive Russian awards 
• Writer Doncho Tsonchev laureate of the Literature Award 2007 of the University of Sofia 
• Fifteen years Portuguese philology in Bulgaria 
• Bulgarian translator receives high Belgian honour 

Anniversaries

• Hristo Botev’s 160th anniversary

Bulgarian Routes

• A Winter Fairy Tale in the Rhodopes

Special Supplement: The Treaty of San Stefano, March 3, 1878 - Stoyan Raichevsky