LIK Magazine Dedicated to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' 155th Anniversary

Nikolay Zabov, BTA correspondent Martina Gancheva

Copies of LIK magazine dedicated to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' 155th anniversary, Bucharest (BTA Photo/Vladimir Shokov)

Bucharest,

28.10.2024 18:25

(BTA)

BTA presented the latest issue of LIK magazine, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), here on Monday. The date coincided with the two-year anniversary of the opening of the BTA Press Club in Bucharest, as well as with the feast day of Venerable Theophano Basarab as canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church.

BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said at the event that holding the presentation of the new LIK magazine, dedicated to BAS in Bucharest, on the day after the [snap] Bulgarian Parliamentary elections is sending a message that the Bulgarian people need to be led by men of learning, like the ones who founded BAS in Romania.

Valchev added that the people of Bulgaria and Romania are linked by a common historical destiny, which has been a factor for centuries.

BAS President Julian Revalski spoke via video call at the event, expressing his gratitude to Romania and to the city of Braila in particular, as it witnessed the founding of BAS as the Bulgarian Literary Society 155 years ago. That institution was reorganized by law into the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1911. According to Revalski, Romania played a key role in helping Bulgaria to set up its first national institutions.

Bulgarian Ambassador to Romania Radko Vlaykov who was at the event labelled the magazine a solid, comprehensive and scientific work, which could be useful to various types of researchers. He recalled scientific and cultural events in Bucharest and Braila, organized jointly with the efforts of the Bulgarian and Romanian scientific communities, BTA and the Embassy of Bulgaria in Romania.

In an interview for BTA, the General Director of the National History Museum of Romania Ernest Oberlander requested deeper cooperation with Bulgaria and the country's museums. He reported that his museum hosted the exhibition "The Treasure of Sveshtari: Gold of the Thracians South of the Danube", an important cultural event for the Bulgaria and Romania's bilateral relations.

Oberlander described the 19th century as a golden era for the Bulgarian society, as it achieved reached numerous successes, one of them being the establishment of BAS.

In her speech at the magazine presentation, Claudia Nicolae, Director General of the national news agency of Romania Agerpres, highlighted the importance of having journalists that cooperate with the scientific and academic communities to push science forward. Nicolae stressed the importance of having an institution as old and significant as BAS, especially in the current times of disinformation and fake news.

Valchev concluded the event by reporting that copies of the magazine will be available at Romanian universities which have Bulgarian language programmes, as well as the library of Bucharest University, the Romanian National History Museum and the Union of Banat Bulgarians.

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