The state visit of Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov in Moscow kicked off Wednesday night with a presentation of his book "Bulgaria in the Global World".

The book is in Russian, and is published by the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". Its foreword is written by the renown Russian diplomat and former Prime Minister Evgeniy Primakov.

In his book, Parvanov discusses topics such as Bulgaria's strategic position in the Balkans, Bulgaria's energy sector, and the Bulgarian-Russian relations. He also tells about his meetings with world leaders and their meaning for Bulgaria's history.

During the presentation, which took place in Moscow's hotel "President", Parvanov declared that Bulgaria had paid a high cost for its EU membership as before the closure of the first four reactors it had been providing 50% of the region's electricity.

"If you need to be angry with someone about the American military bases in Bulgaria, you must be angry with me", the Bulgarian President declared as Evgeniy Primakov expressed Russia's discontent with Bulgaria's NATO accession as well as with NATO's moving closer to the Russian borders.

Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov is meeting Thursday with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev as well as with the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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