INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “SERBIAN-BURGARIAN RELATIONS – PERSPECTIVES AND COOPERATION”

The international scientific conference “Serbian-Bulgarian relations – perspectives and cooperation” was held on February 19 and 20 at the Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade. Colleagues from Russia, Belarus, Poland, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina responded to the invitation to participate in the conference.

The exhibitors presented their reports through three panels:

Jovo Bajić, THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT AND THE SERBS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY;

Ivan Čarota, BELARUSIAN-BULGARIAN LITERARY CONNECTIONS AS A REFLECTION OF CHANGING POLITICS;

Darina Grigorova, BULGARIAN DIPLOMATIC FORECASTS AND SCENARIOS ON THE FATE OF THE USSR (1990 – 1991);

Vladimir Kršljanin, SERBIAN-BULGARIAN RELATIONS – THE KEY TO THE BALKANS, THE BALKAN ALLIANCE AND RUSSIA;

Kiril Shevchenko, THE BERLIN CONGRESS OF 1878 AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE SITUATION IN THE BALKANS IN THE ASSESSMENTS OF RUSSIAN SLAVIC SCIENTISTS;

Sanja Šuljagić, ON THE NEGLECT OF TOUGH DETERMINANTS IN SERBIAN AND BULGARIAN IDENTITY;

Milomir Stepić, SERBIAN-BULGARIAN AXIS OF “HORIZONTAL” INTEGRATION OF THE BALKANS: OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS;

Emil Milanov, BULGARIAN-SERBIAN RELATIONS – REAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE;

Ivan Andrejevič Ivanjikov, SERBIAN-BULGARIAN RELATIONS: EXISTING PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE POSITIVE PERSPECTIVES;

Braco Kovačević, DIMITRIJE TUCOVIĆ ON THE BALKAN FEDERATION;

Vojn Božinov, EXPRESSIONS ON BULGARIAN-SERBIAN RELATIONS;

Zoran Milošević, ALEXANDER OF STAMBOLI AND HIS POLICY TOWARDS THE SERBS AND YUGOSLAVIA;

Nada M. Raduški, BULGARIAN ETHNIC COMMUNITY ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC MAP OF SERBIA;

Radoslav Iliev, SUPPORT OF BULGARIAN AND YUGOSLAVIAN INITIATIVES FOR “BUILDING” AFRICA DURING THE COLD WAR YEARS. ARCHITECTURAL MODELS AND POLICY OF DECOLONIZATION;

Dajana Lazarević, FROM BROTHER TO WAR AND BACK THROUGH POLITICAL WATERS – BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SERBIAN-BULGARIAN CONNECTIONS.

After the presentation, the participants had the opportunity to socialize over dinner and feel the spirit of old Belgrade in a restaurant located in the heart of the bohemian quarter, Skadarlija, to visit the Church of St. Sava, the Church of St. Mark, the Russian Church (Temple of the Holy Trinity) and the monument to Vasil Levski in Tašmajdan Park.

The conference, organized according to the idea of Dr. Zoran Milošević, a scientific advisor, brings a refreshing view of Serbian-Bulgarian relations with an emphasis on perspectives, that is, cooperation and the search for healthy and friendly foundations of Serbs and Bulgarians, and a collection of scientific papers of the same name remains as a written trace of the conference.

We thank the Conference participants for their cooperation and look forward to new meetings.

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