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World-renowned PR expert Maxim Behar has been named number one in the global ranking of the Top 50 Most Influential PR Professionals for 2025 by the American leadership platform Thinkers360. This is the second consecutive year that the communications specialist has topped this prestigious list of the world's top 50 public communications leaders. He scored a perfect 100 points to secure the top position.
Host (Zheni Moneva): It's a pleasure to introduce the globally renowned PR specialist Maxim Behar, who last year revealed another talent and surprised us by rapping in a song together with Bulgarian rapper Mihail Mihaylov, known as Misho Shamara or Big Sha, his son Mihail Mihaylov Jr., known as Lil Sha, and a country singerSara Haralson. The song was dedicated to PR professionals, which definitely sparked huge interest.
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The Czech government awarded Bulgarian PR expert and diplomat Maxim Behar a high state honor – a medal for diplomatic activity and notable contributions to the development of relations between the two countries. The Czech Minister for European Affairs, Martin Dvořák , presented the medal to Behar in the presence of the Czech Ambassador to Bulgaria, H.E.
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"Hey Max, they told me your company can make business cards." Even though I was still in the early stages of my business and my office had only one assistant who hadn't even finished a university degree yet, those words affected me quite a bit. Come on, have we come to the point of only making business cards for the world’s 5 th largest petroleum company, I asked myself and was thinking that they came here purely by coincidence.
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By Simona Dimitrova, 24 hours Daily, Sofia, Bulgaria "It was my second or third meeting with King Simeon II in Madrid, with whom we became close friends after first meeting him in 1992, and since then, I have interviewed him several times before. I was telling him what was going on in our country what are the news, how is doing what and also – how impatient people are waiting for him.
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