Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian People’s Assembly Rositsa Kirova is visiting Ukraine, Bulgarian National Radio reports on March 4.
His visit began on March 2 with a meeting with the Bulgarian community in the town of Zarya, located 115 km from Odessa. About 5,000 ethnic Bulgarians live in Zara, they have a rich and beautiful museum and the Bulgarian Sunday school attracts 210 children, the government press center reports, citing BGNES.
“Here the Bulgarian spirit is strong and people remember their roots with pride. “They preserved their traditions and their love for Bulgaria.”said Rositsa Kirova during the meetings with the Bulgarian community.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rositsa Kirova was in Odessa as a guest to celebrate March 3, Bulgaria’s Liberation Day from Ottoman rule.
In Odessa he met with Sunday school teachers, the director of the Bulgarian secondary school in Bolgrad, the mayor of Bolgrad, representatives of Bulgarian towns and cultural centers and artists.
At the Bulgarian consulate, Consul General Sviatoslav Ivanov organized an exhibition of works by the honored artist of Ukraine, Bessarabian Bulgarian Ivan Shishman.
On March 4, the vice-president of the Bulgarian People’s Assembly met with the large and close-knit community of Bulgarians in the city of Izmail.
Rositsa Kirova visited the Izmail Lyceum, where the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary, hero of the national liberation movement, Hristo Botev, taught, the state university, where she visited the Bulgarian Sunday school classes and also laid flowers at the monument to Hristo Botev. .
Source: Rossa Primavera
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