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   <description>The latest bulgarian news online in English.  The shortest cut to the heart of the Balkans. Section: Arts.</description>
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      <title>Bulgarian cinema days start in Brussels</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22926</link>
      <description>Five new Bulgarian films will be presented from Friday till Dec. 2 in Brussels in the framework of the international arts festival Europalia.</description>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:31:50 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Abstract painting sold for $72.3 million</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22742</link>
      <description>A painting by U.S. abstractionist Mark Rotcho was sold for US$72.84 million at an auction in London, reports said Wednesday.</description>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 19:17:48 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Serbia's Serifovic snatches Eurovision song contest first prize</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22721</link>
      <description>Serbia's Maria Serifovic scored 268 points to snatch the first prize in the annual Eurovision song contest in Helsinki Saturday.</description>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 01:21:12 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Bulgarian duo stands 7th in bookies' Eurovision song contest projections</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22717</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Ukrainian Verka Serdyuchka is the bookies' favourite as 24 nations brace to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki on Saturday, the BBC reported.</description>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 13:16:06 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Bulgarian drama, movie director Grisha Ostrovski dies</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22679</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Famous Bulgarian theatre and film director Grisha Ostrovski died Sunday, the Union of Bulgarian Actors announced. He was 89.</description>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:19:27 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Bulgarian jazz star opens Balkan Fever festival in Vienna</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22655</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Bulgarian piano jazz veteran Milcho Leviev opened with a concert the &quot;Balkan Fever&quot; jazz festival in Vienna late Saturday.</description>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:44:27 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Artist Stoimen Stoilov opened exhibition in Vienna</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22512</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- The retrospective project is called Mediterranean Fragments.Stoilov's previous exhibition was in Vienna's Portchach Palace which in January hosted an event entitled &quot;Contemporary Bulgarian Art: Plastic/Conceptual 2000- 2005&quot;.</description>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:52:07 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>A famous opera with a one night only premiere</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22504</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Vincenzo Bellini's opera &quot;The Capulets and the Montagues&quot; enjoyed enormous interest at its Saturday evening premiere in Rousse (on the Danube).</description>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:37:17 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Bulgarian Cinema presented in Paris</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22480</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Eighteen films, including classic movies and new releases, will present Bulgarian cinema to audiences in Paris during a national film week between January 31 and February 5.</description>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:02:54 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Leonardo Da Vinci's exhibition is a blast in Sofia</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22464</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Over 5,000 people have visited an exhibition on Leonardo in the five days since it opened at the Sofia Art Gallery on January 11, Gallery Director Adelina Fileva said for the Bulgarian National Television.</description>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:40:37 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>110th Anniversary of the National Art Academy</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22381</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- Exhibition of the lecturers of the National Art Academy is opening on 7th December 2006 till 3rd January 2007 in the National Art Gallery.</description>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:42:46 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Winners of 30th International Film Fest &quot;Gold Chest&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=22291</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- 80 international films competed in the 30th International Film Fest &quot;Gold chest&quot; and the winners were annonced on 4 November.</description>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:24:06 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Teodora Dimova wins big East European literature prize</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=21711</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- &quot;The Mothers&quot; novel written by the Bulgarian writer Teodora Dimova has won the newly-founded Big prize for East European literature, officials announced.</description>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:56:47 +0300</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Bulgaria's Thracian gold goes to Rome</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=21229</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- An exhibition with Thracian gold relics found in Bulgaria this summer is going to Italy, where for one month it will be displayed in Rome's presidential palace of Quirinale, National History Museum Bozidar Dimitrov said.</description>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:21:05 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Jubilee 25th Book Fair in Sofia</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=21070</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- The National Palace of Culture in Sofia hosts the jubilee 25th Fair of the Book, state TV reported Wednesday.</description>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:31:25 +0200</pubDate></item>
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      <title>Days of Japanese culture start in Sofia</title>
      <link>http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&amp;sid=20833</link>
      <description>SOFIA (bnn)- The National Gallery of Fine Arts opened for a 16th consecutive year the Days of Japanese culture in the capital Sofia, state TV announced Thursday.</description>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:17:21 +0300</pubDate></item>
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