Balgarianovinite.com A monument to Bulgaria’s national hero, the “Apostle of Freedom” Vasil Levski, was unveiled on Friday in Warsaw by Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Poland, Margarita Ganeva, and the Director General of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), Kiril Vаlchev. The monument, created by sculptor Stanislav Korchev and architect Tzeno Todorov, is located in the courtyard of the Bulgarian embassy in the Polish capital.
After the ceremony, Vаlchev held a three-hour meeting with representatives of the Bulgarian community in Poland, during which he presented the work of Bulgaria’s national news agency and the opportunities to expand BTA’s news coverage from Bulgarians abroad.
“BTA has begun regularly publishing news about the Bulgarian community in Poland in the newly established ‘BG World’ section. To date, it contains a total of 337 reports on Bulgarians in Poland,” the BTA Director General told the Bulgarians in Warsaw. He emphasised that, according to the official 2021 census, there are 2,373 Bulgarians in Poland, but unofficial estimates put the number at 15,000, indicating a wider scope for news coverage.
As important sources of information about the Bulgarian presence in Poland, Valchev highlighted the highly active embassy and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, the five honorary consuls of Bulgaria in Poland, the Dora Gabe Bulgarian School in Warsaw with a branch in Krakow, Bulgarian associations in Warsaw and Krakow, as well as lecturers and students of the Bulgarian language at Polish universities and of Polish at Bulgarian higher education institutions.
“Part of our effort to know more about each other today is the exchange of news between the national news agencies of our two countries, PAP and BTA, which in 2022 signed a new partnership agreement building on previous agreements, the first of which dates back to 1975,” Valchev noted.
On Thursday evening, the BTA Director General attended the celebration of Bulgaria’s national holiday at the Music University in Warsaw, which featured a concert of works by Bulgarian composers.
Before the concert, Ambassador Ganeva awarded Bulgarian state orders to former Polish Ambassador to Bulgaria Maciej Szymanski and Bulgarian studies scholar Prof. Georgi Minchev from the University of Lodz.
On Friday morning, Valchev met with Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library in Warsaw. The BTA Director General presented the English editions of LIK magazine and a book compiling news from BTA archives spanning its history from 1898 to the present, and committed that the agency will send all issues of the magazine annually to the Polish National Library. Valchev also examined preserved parts of one of the largest and earliest Old Bulgarian manuscripts from the Preslav Literary School of the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture in the 10th century – the Codex Suprasliensis. Monument to Bulgarian National Hero Vasil Levski Unveiled in Warsaw 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-06 22:33:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law