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On November 18, 2025, a Roundtable "Influence of the Ottoman Empire on the Socioculture of the Balkan Region: History and Modernity" was held at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. It was organized by the Balkan Club of the Academy.

Nikolay Podchasov, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies of IMEMO, Cand. of Science (History, presented a paper "Influence of the Ottoman Empire on Political Life of Modern Bulgaria", in which he highlighted the most obvious manifestations of the legacy of the Ottoman period in the contemporary political culture of Sofia.