site.btaBTA Opens Press Club in Gotse Delchev

A National Press Club of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will be inaugurated in the town of Gotse Delchev later today, May 11. The event coincides with the feast day of the patron saints of the local Church of St Cyril and St Methodius.

The inauguration of the BTA press club will be attended by Metropolitan Serafim of Nevrokop, Bishop Evlogii of Adrianople (who is the Hegumen of the Rila Monastery), members of the BTA management, officials of Gotse Delchev Municipality and representatives of national and local news media.

In March, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and Gotse Delchev Mayor Vladimir Moskov signed an agreement under which the local government would provide space to house the new press club. The setting up of a press club and a correspondent’s bureau of the national news agency in the southwestern town was approved unanimously by the Municipal Council in January.

Gotse Delchev is the 33rd town in Bulgaria in which BTA opens a national press club and a correspondent’s bureau. This adds up to a total of 43 BTA press clubs in Bulgaria and abroad, including temporary ones.

The network includes 27 press clubs in Bulgaria’s regional capitals: Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Dobrich, Gabrovo, Haskovo, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa and Yambol. Five press clubs are located outside the regional capitals, in Kazanlak, Petrich, Samokov, Svishtov and Troyan. There are eight press clubs abroad, in Ankara (Turkiye), Belgrade and Bosilegrad (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Odesa (Ukraine), Skopje (North Macedonia) and Taraclia (Moldova) as well as the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island. Two temporary press clubs, one on the Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) and the other one at the Sofia Book Fair, complete the list.