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On May 11th, is the church feast day of Holy brothers, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.

The two brothers are known also as the Apostles of the Slavs. In 862-863 Constantine Cyril the Philosopher created the oldest Old-Bulgarian alphabet "The Glagolitsa alphabet" which is supposed to had given a start the holy deals of the Apostles.

Urgent repairs will be made to the National Library St. St. Cyril and Methodius, stated in an interview for bTV interim Culture Minister Rashko Mladenov.

Part of the ceiling of the library collapsed on Friday under the weight of melting snow and injured a reader.

Nitra Gallery launches its Athens annex with a solo exhibition by Turkish conceptual artist Ardan Ozmenoglu at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 26. The show, "What's the Time in Istanbul," touches upon the themes of identity and national self-understanding and is inspired by the volatile situation in Turkey following last year's failed coup.

A Bulgarian architect has made a documentary about the Glagolitic alphabet, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, daily 24 reports.

Plamen Miryanov, 27, has shot the film inside a derelict church in northwestern Bulgaria and the Prohodna cave in Stara Planina.

The works to erect the Great Basilica in Pliska, the first capital of the first Bulgarian state founded in Southeast Europe, will receive additional funding, the government has decided.

The cabinet has thus increased the overall budget for construction to BGN 1.5 M in public money.

A 5-meter-tall monument to the Cyrillic alphabet is to be unveiled by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev during his visit to Mongolia on May 11.

Novinite has interviewed Kiril Boyanov, Chairperson of the board of the Eureka foundation.

Boyanov was picked by readers of our Bulgarian-language website, Novinite.bg, as 2014's Personality in the News in the Diplomacy section.

Thousands of students gathered on the square on the main university campus in Skopje for a rock concert by Balkan rock bands in support of the student occupation of the Sts Cyril and Methodius University.

After being denied talks with the government, students at Macedonia's largest, state-run university, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, have decided to stage another protest march next week against alleged government interference in the academic system.

Students who organized a mass march on Monday against government-proposed "state exams" - a form of state supervised external test conducted by the education ministry - say they are ready to take the streets again if the ministry fails to hear their cry.