Maxim Minchev Was Called Upon to Help Bulgarians Look Around Them, Says BTA Director General Kiril Valchev

Metodi Yordanov, Gergana Nikolova

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Sofia,

05.06.2024 20:37

(BTA)

Maxim Minchev (1953-2020) was called upon to help the Bulgarian look around him, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said on Wednesday during the presentation of the book "On the Roads of Africa" in BTA's Maxim Hall. This is the last book of the long-time head of the Bulgarian News Agency Maxim Minchev and was published posthumously. The event in Maxim Hall took place on Minchev's the 71st birth anniversary.

Kiril Valchev joined the event via an internet link from the BTA National Press Club in Odesa.

According to him, the agency continued and developed two contributions of Minchev. One of them is the World Meetings of Bulgarian Media. "Maxim's other major contribution, which we have continued and developed at BTA, is the national press clubs. In almost 18 years he managed to open 11 across the country, to lay the foundations of two abroad. I can imagine how difficult it was for him. In three years we have managed to triple them, already building on what he had achieved. And they are now working as a network with simultaneous events," Valchev said.

"Our unforgettable Maxim has brought us together today - a man we have loved since day one, whom we will always love and he has a birthday today," said PR specialist Maxim Behar during the launch of "On the Roads of Africa". According to him, this book is priceless. "Every one of us who has this book at home will have a piece of Maxim," Behar added.

"As happy as I am to hold this book in my hands, I am also sad because this was the occasion to hear and see Maxim for the last time," said the editor of "On the Roads of Africa" - journalist Georgi Milkov.

Solomon Passy, who wrote the introduction to the book, explained that Maxim Minchev has divided his life into three parts - before he met Maxim, together with him and after him. "With this book, a childhood dream of mine was realized. It was a dream to become Maxim's co-author in a book," Passy said.

The Director of BTA's Directorate for Knowledge and Culture "LIK", Prof. Georgi Lozanov, said that one can talk about many sides of Maxim Minchev - as a friend, a man who was part of BTA, a traveler, a civil activist. "However, I want to say something about Maxim as a politician. As a politician, a builder of liberal democracy in Bulgaria. He was not a politician in the career sense of the word, but he carried an outlook that is at the heart of what we call liberal democracy, and what we have been trying to implement in Bulgaria for so many years since 1989," he explained.

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