UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and Bulgarian Minister of Culture Boil Banov signed an agreement in Paris to continue the operations of the UNESCO Regional Center for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sofia.
The agreement has been extended for a new six-year period.
The Center in Sofia brings together the efforts of 16 Southeast European countries to promote and implement the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Albania, Armenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Croatia, Montenegro and Ukraine’
The Bulgarian National Radio celebrates its 90th anniversary on January 25 with a gala concert with the participation of all ensembles of the BNR at the Sofia Opera. Before that, the Sirak Skitnik Award will be presented at a..
In the context of the efforts to release the Bulgarian citizens detained on board the Galaxy Leader ship, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Georg Georgiev, paid a working visit to the Sultanate of Oman, where he met with..
On Saturday , the lowest temperatures will be between 0 and 5°C; in Sofia it will be around 0°C. During the day, it will be mostly sunny. In the morning hours cloudiness will still be significant in the eastern regions, but in the..
Personnel and military equipment will be transported through the territory of Bulgaria between January 24 and February 9. The Ministry of Defense..
''Bulgaria has welcomed with great relief and joy the release of Bulgarian citizen Daniela Gilboa, who had been held captive by Hamas. This positive..
The oil spill in the Black Sea will not reach the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, BTA reported. According to an analysis of recent satellite images..
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