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Bulgarians may have only heard of New York's Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, but now they can see some the most iconic artworks there - without having to fly to the Big Apple.

They just have to come to the village of Staro Zhelezare, near Hisarya and Plovdiv in central Bulgaria, and stroll along its streets, which artists have turned into an open-air gallery.

The film "Aga" by director Milko Lazarov was selected in the main program of the 68th edition of the "Berlinale" cinema festival.

Aga is co-produced with the Bulgarian National Television and is the first Bulgarian film in the main official program of the Berlin Film Festival since 29 years after the film Ivan and Alexandra directed by Ivan Nichev.

Victoria and Alexander are the most preferred names in 2017, according to NSI data, FOCUS reported. Among the popular male names are Georgi, Dimitar, Ivan and Nikola. Often the boys are named Martin, Daniel and Victor. In recent years the number of newborns with the names Boris, Kaloyan, Simeon, Asparuh has increased. The most common Muslim names in Boys and in 2017 are Emir and Mert.

The Greek National Opera promises to make this festive season even more magical for parents and their kids traveling to Athens with two amazing children’s shows that are certain to entertain and delight the whole family.

These are the performances the Greek National Opera (GNO) will be bringing to young audiences before, during and right after the Christmas holidays and the New Year:

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Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon has become the target of mockery from rival politicians and the media in Chisinau after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a quip about him in Saint Petersburg, where the Moldovan head of state participated in the Eurasian Economic Summit on Saturday.

According to preliminary figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) released on Tuesday, Georgi and Maria continued to be most common Bulgarian names in 2015.

At the end of 2015, there were nearly 69 000 different personal names of people permanently residing in Bulgaria.

BELGRADE - Greek Ambassador to Serbia Constantine Economides presented on Wednesday classical arts professor of the Novi Sad University Ksenija Maricki Gadjanski with the Order of Benevolence Gold Cross.

"We ate spaghetti, a cake and apples today... I liked the cake the most... but the apples were bitter," six-year-old Ivan complains as his mother, Miljana, takes him home from the Rade Jovcevski-Korcagin kindergarten in Skopje.

Torrents gone, rocks remained

Radalj, a village of the Mali Zvornik Municipality has remained under thousands of cubic meters of granite stone that this place is known for, after disastrous flooding that affected Serbia.