The Minister of Culture presented the country-s position in the Culture and Audio-visual section at the regular meeting of the EU Council on Education, Youth, Culture and Sport.

   The Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Moscow Buryana Angelakieva and Mikhail Shepel, the Director-General of the M.I.Rudomino State Foreign Literature Library in the Russian capital signed a bilateral agreement on intentions regarding the continuation of the New Bulgarian Novel Project. The signing ceremony took place in Saint Petersburg today at the 8th International Cultural Forum and in the presence of representatives of the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria.

   Bulgarian Minister of Culture Boil Banov outlined Bulgaria-s priorities in UNESCO programmes and Bulgaria-s contribution to their implementation at the 40th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, held in Paris. Minister Banov participated in the UNESCO General Conference as Head of the Bulgarian delegation.

   “I am convinced that libraries can also be another place to acquire the knowledge, skills and all the competencies that are necessary for the modern man.” This was said by the Deputy Minister of Culture Amelia Gesheva, who together with the Deputy Minister of Education and Science (MES) Tanya Mihaylova participated in the best open lesson, awarded in the first MES competition for museum education. It was publicly presented by the winner Mrs Nina Karaivanova of Exarch Antim I Primary School in Plovdiv to the second graders from the school at the Ethnographic Museum of the city today.