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MINISTER The Minister of Culture Bozhidar Abrashev will visit this week in Velingrad. Our city is one of the four that the Minister has targeted to promote cultural tourism projects.

FOREIGN Deputy Mayor Snezhana Veleva accompanied Draginovo's folk ensemble at the festival in Zakopane, Poland. She travels at the invitation of the amateurs and will gain experience from the organization of one of the most popular folk festivals in Europe. Deputy Mayor Angel Toporchev is preparing for a meeting in Xanthi, Greece on the issues of interethnic relations. On the Bulgarian side, the Plovdiv mayor Dr. Ivan Chomakov has also received an invitation, and in addition to the hosts, representatives from Turkey and Cyprus will participate.

In the schools of the municipality during the week the textbooks for the second grade were discussed. In addition to teachers, parents will also give an opinion. After the schools make a ranking, the MES will select 3 textbooks. Unlike other years, all three will have the same price.

And this week did not go without theft from a private home committed over the balcony. On the night of 11 August, a house was robbed on St. John's Street. St. Cyril and Methodius" in the center, 46-year-old Milos K. was left without 3800 levs, 300 euros and gold rings and jewelry totaling 5000 levs, the spokesman of the RDP announced. 80 euros, 120 leva and 420 dinars were stolen from a tourist from Macedonia in an open flat in Velingrad.