The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, visited today the prehistoric salt-mining and urban center Provadia-Solnitsa, studied this year by a team of the National Archaeological Institute and Museum of BAS and the Historical Museum in Provadia under the leadership of Acad. Vassil Nikolov. The guest was acquainted with the new results of the excavation of structures from the 6th and 5th millennium BC, the conservation and restoration activities and the socialisation of the monument. Acad. Nikolov regretted the lack of a clear state strategy regarding the financing of the study and conservation of the archaeological heritage in Bulgaria, which was expressed in the last year also in the unacceptable delay in the implementation of the relevant supporting state programmes. [...]

The crisis phenomena in the recent history of Eastern Europe are the subject of discussion in scientific forums organised by the Institute for Historical Studies - BAS. At the round table on "Crises and Challenges in Eastern Europe - the 50s-90s of XX c", held within the framework of the bilateral project with the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, thematic fields marking turning points in political history during this period were discussed. Analysed were the relations between the allies of the Anti-Hitlerist coalition during the Second World War (Teodoritschka Gotovska-Henze); the influence that the Hungarian events of autumn 1956 had on the authority, internal political and internal party situation of the Western European communist parties (Nadezhda Yankovska). The contradictions in Yugoslav [...]

On 16 and 17 May 2022, in the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, an international forum Evaluation of Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe took place in Paris. Discussions were attended by scientists from twelve different countries of the European Union, as well as representatives from a number of European institutions and organisations such as the European Commission (Research and Innovation); the Scientific Committee of the European Cooperation Programme on Science and Technology (COST); and the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH); Pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU); Academia Europaea; European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH); Institute for Advanced Study (IEA), Paris; High Council for the [...]

Russia's hybrid and conventional war against Ukraine (2014-2022) is invariably present in the media, in the commentaries of politicians and political analysts, in national discourses and world politics, historical knowledge and analysis make it possible to identify the roots, causes and preconditions of the conflict, as well as to look for analogies in history that would contribute to the closest to reality interpretation of what is happening before our eyes today. This topical issue was the subject of discussion at a round table "The Russian-Ukrainian War and Bulgaria through the Eyes of Historians", organized by the Institute for Historical Studies at BAS. The forum was attended by Prof. Mikhail Stanchev and Assoc. Prof. Sergey Strashnyuk from the Kharkiv National University "Vasily Karazin", Prof. Anatoliy Kruglashov [...]