site.btaBosilegrad Cultural and Information Centre Receives Maxim Minchev Award Conferred by GLAS Association

The Bosilegrad Cultural and Information Centre (CIC) is the winner of this year’s Maxim Minchev Award for contribution to the development of civil society and democratic values, it emerged at Tuesday’s celebration of the eighth anniversary of the opening of the BTA press club in Bosilegrad, Serbia.

The award was instituted in October 2021 by the Managing Board of the GLAS Association of Bossilegrad to commemorate late Maxim Minchev, who was director general of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) between 2003 and 2020.

BTA Deputy Director General Evgenia Drumeva presented the award to CIC Chair Ivan Nikolov.

The previous two winners of the award were the civil association Eko Kraiste (represented by Branko Mitov), because of their fight against the environmental problems of the Bosilegrad Municipality, and the teacher and artist Ljubisa Penev, who works with children in various initiatives, recalled GLAS Association President Aleksander Dimitrov.

The Bosilegrad Cultural and Information Centre of the Bulgarian Minority in Bosilegrad was founded on December 11 1997 as a branch of the Civil Association Cultural Information Centre of the Bulgarian Minority  in Tsaribrod, as Nikolov remains its President since then. As of October 2 1998 operates as an independent institution. The activities of the Centre are related to the preservation and development of the culture of the Bulgarian national minority in Serbia.