Bulgaria

The Grand Prix for 2017 won the singer Rossella Zitiello from Italy. "Diplomatic Spectrum" was the media partner of the event

During the International Book Fair in Beijing this August, Lyuben Kozarev, manager of the "East-West" Publishing House, and Petko Hinov, a Chinese-Bulgarian translator, were awarded the Prize for Special Contribution to the Chinese Book.

For centuries, nearly 60 000 movable cultural values have been collected in the museum - the "living" memory of Bulgaria’s past

Since 2014 Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv and Google Arts&Culture cooperate successfully. On June 8th this year they presented the new virtual exhibition "Alafranga Fashion".

The 6th edition of the Balkan Wine Festival, organized by Galina Niforou and Konstantinos Lazarakis MW, took place on the 3rd and 4th of June.

On the 12th and 13th of May, during the Sofia Science Festival in Sofia Tech Park the # BG10xEU Hackathon took place on the occasion of the 10 years membership of Bulgaria in the EU.