Contents

Hope for the Future

The New Government of the Republic of Bulgaria

Year of Bulgaria in Japan

• 50 Years of the Renewal of Diplomatic Relations

Exclusive Guest

• H.E. Acad. Blagovest Sendov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Japan
• H.E. Mr. Tsuneharu Takeda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan

Official Visits

Parliamentary Events

Highlights

NATO at 60. Whereto after the Summit 

• Energy Summit, Sofia 2009 

Analyses

The Law

• Interview: Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez, President of the Criminal Courtroom of Audiencia Nacional
• Jubilee Session of the Bulgarian-Russian Juridical Club

Credentials

Embassies, Holidays, Interviews

• Bulgaria – Italy, 130 Years Diplomatic Relations
• Interview: H.E. Mr. Atanas Mladenov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Republic of Italy
• Interview: H.E. Mr. Stefano Benazzo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Italy
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of Greece 
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Egypt, H.E. Ms. Heba Elmarassi
• Reception on the occasion of the accession of the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Croatia to NATO
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Spain, H.E. Mr. Fernando Arias Gonzalez
• Reception on the occasion of the visit of a parliamentary delegation from Kazakhstan
• Reception on the occasion of Independence Day of the State of Israel
• Reception on the occasion of the 208th anniversary of the May 3rd Constitution, organized jointly by the Embassies of the Republic of Poland and of the Republic of Lithuania
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of the Kingdom of Norway, Constitution Day 
• Reception on the occasion of the final departure of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania, H.E. Mr. Mihail Rosianu
• Reception on the occasion of Africa Day
• Reception on the occasion of the National Holiday of Georgia

The Other Diplomacy

• Interview: Mrs. Marie-Chantal Michielsen-Biela

Cultural Panorama

• The Mindless Dreamer Don Quixote on the stage of Sofia Opera
• Magnetic – Bojidar Ionov
• Retrospective exhibition of Nedko Solakov  
• Photographs from Ireland 
• On Tradition and Modern Iconography
• Salon des Arts
• Interview: Michael Pospisil, Director of the Czech Centre in Sofia
• Earth Day
• Austrian Music Weeks
• Wall-to-Wall Poetry
• Sofia Film Fest
• Shara Karsakpaeva’s Fairytale Come True

Year of Bulgaria in Russia - Roads Are Made by Walking

Achievements

• Zolotaya Muza turns 15
• The Law Faculty of Sofia University –Tradition and Modern Development

I, You and the Others

• A Play at Bulgarians and Turks
• The Spiritual Wealth of India

History

• Lyuben Karavelov – the Modern Bulgarian Politician of the 19th c.

Bulgarian Routes

• At the Source of Good – the Village of Mogilitsa

Editions of Bulgarian Bestseller

• Eugene Onegin
• Poet of the Piano

Special Supplement: Synagogues and Cultural Heritage of the Bulgarian Jewry