Leading figures from Bulgaria’s Borisov government as a whole continue to enjoy high public approval, a recent public opinion poll shows. According to the a survey of the National Center for Studying Public Opinion conducted in May 15-25, 2010, across the country, a total of 64.7% of the Bulgarians approve of the work of Prime [...]
A leak in the piping installation of the shopping center ‘The Mall’ in Sofia has been blamed for flooding the ground floor late Tuesday. Shoppers were evacuated from the ground floor of The Mall on Tuesday at 19:30 and according to manager Frank Whiting there safety was taken care of by in-store security. Whiting added [...]
Bulgarian police have captured a number of invaluable archaeological finds in a police operation in Sofia and the eastern town of Stara Zagora. The operation was carried out by the Unit for Combating the Traffic of Cultural and Historical Items of the main directorate for fighting organized crime (GDBOP), the police directorate in the city [...]
Some 3 200 young kids have been left out of kindergartens in the Bulgarian capital Sofia because of inadequate capacity. The Sofia Municipality issued Friday the rankings for admission to nursery schools announcing the approval some 6 000 children for inclusion in the municipality-run kindergarten programs. Only 160 spots have been left unoccupied to be [...]
Most of the flights to and from Sofia Airport continue to be canceled Saturday over the drifting ash ejected from a volcano in Iceland, the airport management informs. Only the fate of about 10 evening flights remains unclear, but the day flights to Vienna, London, Berlin, Prague, Munich, Amsterdam, Paris and the ones from London, [...]
The Bulgarian state leaders will not be allowed to use their only plane which the same as the crashed plane of Polish President Kaczynski. The Tu-154 plane of the Bulgarian government was actually banned from flying starting April 1, 2010, for other reasons but the crash near Smolenski in which an entire high-ranking Polish delegation [...]
The Bulgarian Director Public Sector at Hewlett Packard Central & Eastern Europe, Sasha Bezuhanova, has received a European LEADERSHE Award. Bezuhanova became the first Bulgarian to receive the prestigious award at a special ceremony in Vienna, Austria. Bezuhanova is the Director Public Sector of Hewlett Packard Central & Eastern Europe and is responsible for the [...]
Bulgarian journalist, Atanas Chobanov, is trying to raise funds through Facebook for an expedition to Uzbekistan. Chobanov, who lives in France, says the goal of the trip is to establish if Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, had killed a protected animal while on an official visit to Uzbekistan. Chobanov appeals to people to join the campaign [...]
Steve Williams, the ambassador to Bulgaria, sent a message of support for a Rainbow Friendship Rally in Sofia this coming Sunday. The same event last year in the Bulgarian capital ended in a bloody riot as marchers clashed with nationalists and riot police. “Celebrating diversity is not about promoting a lifestyle,” he wrote. “It is [...]
Bulgaria is the only European Union country, which sends all of the garbage that it churns out to the landfill, according to official Eurostat figures on municipal waste and the way Europeans deal with the trash. The Europeans who produce the most rubbish are the Danes, the Cypriots and the Irish, according to the figures. [...]
World Bank President Heaps High Praise on Bulgarian Govt
Bulgarian State Companies with New Orders for Bank Selection
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Heads for Bulgaria
Bulgaria Consolidates Control of Finance, Customs, Tax Authorities
Average Wage in Bulgaria Up 9% Q2 Y/Y
Bulgaria with Staggering Export Growth to Non-EU States in 2010 H1
Bulgarian State Railroads to Request Loan from World Bank
