Contents:

125 years diplomatic relations Bulgaria-Russia

• Beginning of the diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Russia
• Diplomatic representatives with Russia
• Diplomatic representatives with USSR
• Interview with H.E. Mr. Anatoli Potapov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation
• Interview with H.E. Mr. Iliyan Vassilev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Russian Federation
• Interview with Mr. Viktor Sharapov, Ambassador (1988–1992)
• Interview with Mr. Georgi Pankov, Ambassador (1986–1990)
• Interview with Prof. R. Grinberg, Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Bulgaria and Russia – Processes of European Integration, Economic Relations, Labour Markets

Exclusive guest

• Mr. Valeri Todorov, head of the Bulgarian National Television Correspondence Bureau in Moscow

Official visits

• Interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, Dr. Andrei Stratan
• Interview with H.E. Mr. Vasile Sturza, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova
• Interview with Mr. Paul Dubois, Assistant Deputy Minister of Canada

Highlights. Events. Meetings

• President Georgi Parvanov met with the ambassadors of the Arab countries to Bulgaria

Bulgarian embassies

• Interview with H.E. Mr. Yaroslav Golev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Slovakia

Letters of Credence

Embassies. National Days

• Reception on the occasion of the assumption of office of H.E. Mr. Yurii Rylach, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Ukraine
• Reception on the occasion of the departure from Bulgaria of H.E. Mr. Vladimir Titov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation
• Exhibition on the occasion of the National Day of Jordan
• Reception on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Italy
• Reception on the occasion of the Day of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Denmark
• Reception on the occasion of the National Day of the Kingdom of Sweden

High life: Interview with Assoc. Prof. Lyubomir Stoykov

Cultural panorama

• The children from ESPA School paint their homeland
• Bulgarian orders
• The University Library in the digital present
• Traditzia Foundation's second anniversary
• Bulgaria and Monte Negro 1878-1918 exhibition
• Pernik handed over the flag of the FEMCC to Nadur, Malta
• Let us greet Europe together
• ARTIS school celebrated its fifth birthday
• Weeks of Hungarian culture
• The Kuban Kazak Ensemble in Bulgaria
• Interview with Mr. Ovanes Melik-Pashaev, president of Joker Media

Bulgarians abroad: Julia Boulle

Achievements

• Eng. Ventseslav Alexiev, Executive Director of Dunav Press received the award Printer of the Year
• Hosanna to Boris Christoff
• Prof. Juliana Pandur was awarded honorary insignia with blue ribbon
• Assoc. Prof. Zhang Sunfen-Kaneti received honorary insignia with blue ribbon
• Prof. Peter Schreiner – Doctor Honoris Causa
• Prof. Peter Berger – Doctor Honoris Causa
• Prof. Stanley Fisher – Doctor Honoris Causa
• Dr. Nikolai Nikolov – member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Sport: Tanyu Kiryakov – the magic marksman

Bulgarian routes

• Asenovgrad – sacred gate to the Rhodopes
• In Bansko – between three mountains
• “Krakra” came back to life amidst the fortress walls on the hill

Premiere: Army of God

Special supplement

• Bulgarians and Russians Through the Centuries