site.btaNew LIK Issue Dedicated to 150 Years Since April Uprising

The new issue of BTA's LIK magazine is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the 1876 April Uprising against Ottoman Turkish rule. The thematic literature, arts and culture magazine of the national news agency presents the uprising through the agency's own archive, offering information about the commemorations held over the years as preserved in its news wires and bulletins. The issue also includes opinions and commentaries by academics, public figures and representatives of local communities in the towns that served as centres of the uprising's revolutionary districts.

The monthly publication's April 2026 issue will have its premiere at the St. Cyril and St. Methodius School in Koprivshtitsa on April 20, which is the Old Style date of "the first shot" fired in the resurrection (New Style date: May 2). The premiere will begin at 2pm and will be held jointly via video link with the BTA press clubs in Bulgaria and abroad.

Partners of the presentation include Koprivshtitsa Municipality and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with the academy also set to present its own publication on "150 Years Since the April Uprising".

In the introduction to the new LIK issue, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev writes: "This issue of LIK presents the most interesting parts of the discussions that the Bulgarian News Agency dedicates to the 150th anniversary of the April Uprising, held in the agency's national press clubs in the centres of the four revolutionary districts of the uprising: Veliko Tarnovo, Sliven, Vratsa and Panagyurishte."

Among the contributors to the issue is journalist Boyko Vasilev, host of the programme Panorama on the Bulgarian National Television and moderator of the April Uprising commemoration events held under BTA's aegis. Also included is Georgi Valchev, Rector of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.

A thematic timeline in the magazine brings together highlights from news reports on the April Uprising taken from the BTA archive, which preserves information dating from the agency's founding in 1898 to the present day.

Since January 2024, LIK has been freely accessible. All issues published since its revival in 2022 can be downloaded in electronic format from the BTA website. The April 2026 issue on the theme "The April Uprising!" can be accessed here.