Géopolitiques de la Bulgarie

Tutrakan. ‘The Bulgarian soldiers who died along Dobrudzha’s battlefields deserve to have their graves recovered’, Petar Boychev, director of the Tutrakan Museum of History in northeastern Bulgaria, told FOCUS News Agency in an interview. The museum started an initiative for recovering the Bulgarian military monuments in Romania. He added that there are a few international cemeteries on Romania’s borderline. ‘None has Bulgarian soldiers. The people are afraid to call themselves Bulgarian’, he said. Boychev is positive that the work on recovering the monuments will go on.

Tsapari Village. The Bulgarian General Consular Section in Macedonia's Bitola organizes a memorial service to the Bulgarian insurgents who were killed in World War I not far from Bitola. November 3 is the All Souls' Day, when people pay tribute to the perished Bulgarian soldiers. Eight officers have been buried in the churchyard of the St. George Church. They are from northwestern Bulgaria – Vidin, Belogradchik, Lom. Most of them died in 1917.

Novo Selo. The Bulgarian embassy in Macedonia organizes a memorial service for the Bulgarian insurgents, who died tragically close to Macedonia’s Novo Selo Village, Strumitsa region. Bulgarian Ambassador to Macedonia Gen. Miho Mihov, Gen Ivan Marin, press attaché, representatives of foreign military missions accredited in Skopje and many more attended the event.
Ambassador Miho Mihov told FOCUS News Agency that the All Souls' Day is one of the three major holidays of the kind, to which Orthodox Christians pay tribute. ‘We stay here – on the land of today’s Republic of Macedonia, where Bulgarian soldiers died during the Balkan War, the Second Balkan War and the First World War’, he said. November 3 is the All Souls' Day.

Sofia. Metropolitan Bishop Maxim of Stobi, Bishop of Znepol and secretary general of the St. Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Joan, vicar of the Sofia Metropolitan Bishop and bishops from the Sofia eparchy paid mass for the perished soldiers at the military ossuary mausoleum of Sofia’s central cemetery. The service has the blessing of His Holiness Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Bishop Maxim.
The memorial service will be attended by the President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Armed Forces Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian Minister of Defense Veselin Bliznakov, Chief of General Staff of the Bulgarian Armed Forces Gen. Zlatan Soykov, chairperson of the National Assembly Georgi Pirinski, Mnister of Interior Rumen Petkov and others.
Bulgarian President laid wreath in memorial to the dead Bulgarian soldiers.

Gradsko. A memorial service was held in the town of Veles, Macedonia, on Thursday in front of the reconstructed monument and charnel house of 242 Bulgarian soldiers and officers who died in an assault against French troops on October 31st and November 1st 1915, Bulgaria’s ambassador to Skopje general Miho Mihov told Focus News Agency.
92 years ago in 1915 in the region of Gradsko 250 Bulgarians died, including eight officers who were buried in “St. Arhangel” monastery. The troops of the Second Bulgarian Army and French troops met in a very interesting, from military and technical point of view, place. In this way the Macedonian front was opened.
Thursday’s ceremony remembers both the dead Bulgarians and their worthy enemy – French troops.

Sofia. The process was finalized, a principal agreement on a number of parameters was achieved, concerning not only the financing, the incomes of the teachers and the school personnel as a whole but the reforms parameters as well, the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov announced after the celebration ceremony for the Day of Leaders of Bulgarian National Revival in front of the parade entrance of the Presidency, FOCUS News Agency reported. According to Parvanov all reforms parameters were provided for in the draft agreement prepared by the government. “Probably there are much more details but I think that they should not obstruct the finalization of the process and the bringing back of the high-school students and teachers in the classrooms,” the Head of the State added.
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Sofia. The Chairperson of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad /ABA/ Denitsa Hristova addressed a greeting on the occasion of the Day of the Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival, the Agency announced.
‘On this day we take a bow before the creators and protectors of the Bulgarian cultural tradition – the equals to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius, their pupils, St. Kliment Ohridski, St. Naum Ohridski, Konstantin Preslavski, Yoan Ekzarch, Archbishop Petar Parchevich, Paisiii Hilendarski, Sofroni Vrachanski, Dr. Petar Beron, Kiril Peychinovich, Georgi Rakovski, and many others’, the greeting reads.

Sofia. Bulgaria celebrates today the day of the Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival
A traditional ritual for raising the national flag will be held at noon (12.00 am local time) in front of the Presidency. The ritual was first carried out three years ago, and was initiated by the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov on the occasion of this day.