The second seminar of the IRIS project title Training and Socialization of Young Roma Activists into Positions of Political and Civic Leadership in Bulgarian State and Society took place on July 23 in Vladaya Club nearby Sofia. The topic of the session was advocacy training, strategic plan development, coalition building and negotiating with authorities. Lectures were delivered by Dr. Haralan Alexandrov, Marin Lessenski, Dr.Ognayn Minchev. Georgy Metodiev - political scientist and instructor in advocacy process presented advocacy process in practical terms and coordinated sessions on advocacy cases with the participants.

IRIS has started a project of young Roma leaders' training under the title Training and Socialization of Young Roma Activists into Positions of Political and Civic Leadership in Bulgarian State and Society. On June 21 the first training seminar took place in the central building of the Sofia University campus. Dr. Ognyan Minchev and Dr. Ilona Tomova have delivered lectures on contemporary Bulgarian political system and the instruments of empowering minority communities within the political institutions. 22 young Roma intellectuals and civic activists from all over the country have been selected to attend the training program.

A new article of Dr. Ognyan Minchev, focused on the Russian energy exports strategy and the policies of the Bulgarian government on the joint Russian - Bulgarian energy projects. In Bulgarian

A new article by Dr. Ognyan Minchev - "Russia and the Euro-Atlantic World: Bilateral Resetting or Geopolitical Reshaping". You can download it in pdf  here.

On April 15-18, 2010, the Institute for Regional and International Studies, Sofia, and the Centre for Applied Policy Research, Munich, organised the first conference that was part of the pilot issue of the project Black Sea Young Reformers Fellowship (BSYRF) - ‛Security, Development and Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Area‛. The event took place in the Black Sea resort of Golden Sands near Varna, Bulgaria, and was realised in partnership with the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) and Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung. Read more

New article by Stefan Ralchev. You can download it in pdf from here.

New article of Dr. Ognyan Minchev.You can download it in pdf from here: English / Bulgarian

A new analysis by Stefan Ralchev. You can download the article here.

New article of Dr. Ognyan Minchev.You can download it in pdf from here.