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NEWSTREK Amrapaali / January 2015 23 BULGARIA’S CULTURE STRENGTH • Amrapaali Report Photo source: Vaddge site During the official sum up of a project, Filip Gunev, the Deputy Minister of Interior of Bulgaria announced that, “Bulgaria has the third – largest cultural heritage in Europe.” The Project initiated aims at raising the administrative capacity of the workers of the Ministry of Interiors upon prevention and solving of crimes connected with the cultural heritage of the Republic of Bulgaria. Mr. Filip Gunev further stated that, “At the beginning of last year in his capacity of deputy interior minister current Minister of Interior Veselin Vuchkov and Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov opened this project. The project that has ended has achieved several important things – besides raising the capacity, the experience exchange with our Italian colleagues, the database at the Ministry of Interior was expanded to include stolen artifacts, to aid our work in solving crimes connected with our cultural heritage.” The Republic of Bulgaria, is situated in southeastern Europe, bordered by Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and Black Sea. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres, Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country. An initial process has been adopted with establishing the cultural heritage registry and on this Mr. Gunev mentioned that, “We, as a country, should set the goal of meeting deadlines and accomplishing tasks and seek European resources – there are such. In the frames of the next few years we should be able to develop such a registry to aid our work as this is HOME