The Bulgarian printed media accentuates on Monday on the forthcoming informal vote at the UN Security Council. Dnevnik quotes Premier Boyko Borissov that today’s voting would be crucial for Bulgaria’s nominee Irina Bokova. 24 Chassa daily informs that Irina Bokova is facing a stressful vote, but the real competition is to begin on October 3, when the permanent members of the UN Security Council will have the right to veto the voting for the first time.

The media also accentuate on the beginning of the trial against the suspected perpetrators of Burgas terrorist attack which happened over four years ago. Trud daily points out that the two defendants Meliad Farah and Hassan Hassan will be sentenced in default, because they are still wanted.  A total of 169 witnesses have been interrogated until now. Over 100 investigations have been carried out and Bulgaria requested legal assistance from 13 countries.

Sega daily alarms on its first pages that Bulgaria’s education is in deep crisis due to the increased number of teachers who have been retiring recently. A total of 7.700 pedagogues have retired since the beginning of 2016. Their number is expected to reach 10.000 by year end. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education and Science admitted that it expected that only 5.000 teachers would retire this year.

Bulgaria’s printed media quotes Deputy Premier and Minister of Education and Science Meglena Kuneva who told the Bulgarian National Radio that the state would continue to help Bulgarian schools abroad. Following a conversation with representatives of Patriarch Cyril School in Tel Aviv and the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Center in Israel, Meglena Kuneva announced that a future Directorate for Bulgarians Abroad with the Ministry of Education and Science will have the task to attract young people from the Bulgarian diaspore who wish to study in Bulgaria. Nearly 10.000 young Bulgarians left the country’s educational system this year only, because they emigrated.

Zemya daily writes that the National Museum of History will restore the monument to the fallen Bulgarian soldiers and officers on Kaymakchalan peak situated at the Macedonian-Greek border. The monument was recently demolished by a Macedonian citizen. The newspaper quotes the Director of the National Historical Museum Professor Bozhidar Dimitrov that the desecration of the monument is an exceptional example of vandalism and a lack of respect for the deceased. Monitor daily claims, based on a source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the person who carried out that vandal act would be banned from entering Bulgaria.