Bulgaria Hands out Ethnic Tolerance Awards to Journalists

People | December 11, 2006, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Hands out Ethnic Tolerance Awards to Journalists Bulgaria's ethnic and religious tolerance journalistic awards were given away for a third time on Monday evening at Academia gallery in Sofia. Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)

Bulgaria's ethnic and religious tolerance journalistic awards were given away for a third time on Monday evening at Academia gallery in Sofia.

The criteria for the jury's choice were publications or films connected with minority and interethnic relations and creating a positive vision to diversity and interethnic cooperation.

Among the prizewinners were Ivan Bedrov of private bTV channel, Svetlana Tarashoeva of state radio BNR and Yanina Zdravkova of daily newspaper Sega.

The annual journalistic award is named after prominent Bulgarian politician Dimitar Peshev. When word leaked out early in March 1943 that Nazis were about to deport Bulgarian Jews to concentration camps, Peshev, then vice-speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, took on a campaign to prevent that deportation.

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