The ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, still has not transferred the one million levs that it promised to donate to a flood-buried village, a check has shown. The funding was to be taken from the party’s state subsidy and was destined to help the victims of the tragedy in the flooded southeastern village of Biser. “This [...]
The first young eastern imperial eagles in Bulgaria for 2012 have hatched in the wild Sakar and Strandzha Mountains in Bulgaria’s south-eastern corner. In the last few days three of the monitored imperial eagle couples have hatched out their young, announced the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds(BSPB). Breeding in southeastern Europe through Central Asia, the eastern imperial eagle is classified as [...]
Bulgaria’s parliamentary health committee voted on Thursday against the proposed ban on smoking in open public spaces, such as stadiums and bus stations. In April, Bulgaria’s Parliament passed on first reading a bill banning smoking in closed public spaces, including cafes, bars and restaurants, regardless of size. The ban will enter into force on June 1. The full smoking ban in closed public spaces was to be [...]
Bulgaria celebrates Friday, May 6, the Day of Saint George the Victorious, and the Day of the Bulgarian Army. May 6 was officially pronounced as the Day of the Bulgarian Army on January 9, 1880, shortly after the establishment of the country’s military with a decree of Knyaz Alexander Battenberg. After the Communist regime came to power, in [...]
A bus carrying Romanian tourists caught fire in motion near Bulgaria’s Black Sea town of Nesebar early on Wednesday. The accident took place around 5:00 am EET, Darik radio has informed. Fortunately, no people have been injured. The Romanian tourists have been placed in a hotel in the Obzor Black Sea summer resort. According to [...]
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is to arrive on a three-day visit to Bulgaria on Friday. The Patriarch’s visit is on the invitation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and hisBulgarian counterpart, Maxim. On Saturday, Kirill will the country’s President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime MinisterBoyko Borisov and Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva. The last trip of a Russian Patriarch in Bulgaria took place in the now-distant [...]
Four kilometers of poachers’ nets have been seized during an inspection of Lake Vaya near the Black Sea city Burgas, according to Yancho Yanchev, head of the local office of the Executive Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture (EAFA). The fish caught in the illegal nets has been returned to the lake and the authorities have [...]
Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria’s largest airport, has seen its first flash mobever when students danced to Bulgaria’s song for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The flash mob, a group of people who assemble publicly to perform an act for a brief time, then disperse, is yet to gain popularity in Bulgaria. The flash mob at Sofia Airport, however, did surprise the passengers [...]
Earlier this month, the Specialized Cardiac Hospital Yambol, a part of the renowned in Europe Bulgarian Cardiac Institute, won the first “Most Challenging Case Award” a Bulgarian hospital has ever received at the world’s largest conference on interventional cardiovascular medicine in San Francisco, CA. This triumph for post-communist Bulgaria, in the midsts of the infamously [...]
Bulgaria and the Jewish community commemorate Friday the 69th anniversary of the salvation of Bulgarian Jews and the 67th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust on March 10. The ceremony starts at 11 am at the memorial by the National Assembly. It will be attended by Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva, the Mayor of Sofia, [...]
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