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  • Diplomacy Bulgaria Condemns Brutal Woolwich Attack

    Bulgaria Condemns Brutal Woolwich Attack

    Bulgaria has condemned the gruesome killing of a British soldier in London by two alleged Islamists who were later shot and wounded by police. “What happened in London was an abhorrent crime,” a Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson has said. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns this senseless act of violence and expresses its sympathies to the family of the victim and to the injured, and at the same time reiterates its condemnation of aggression and acts of violence against innocent people.” A gruesome [...]

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  • Culture Pope Francis to Congratulate Bulgarians on Slavic Script Day

    Pope Francis to Congratulate Bulgarians on Slavic Script Day

      Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov is about to have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday. Pope Francis is expected to congratulate Bulgarians on their national day of Culture and Slavic Script. Raykov will present the Pope with a copy of the precious Bulgarian Cherepish Gospel (XVI century). The Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister will also meet with Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. Bulgaria celebrates May 24 as the day of the Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavic Script, the [...]

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  • Domestic Bulgarian, German Ladies Slightly Injured in Varna Airport Accident

    Bulgarian, German Ladies Slightly Injured in Varna Airport Accident

    Two elderly women – a Bulgarian and a German – have been slightly injured as a plane unexpectedly left the runway of the airport in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of  Varna. The casualties have been identified, they are aged 71 and 81 respectively. They have broken limbs and are currently treated in a local hospital. The accident took place at 10:19 am EET on Friday. The Air Via air plane was carrying out a charter flight from Leipzig with a total of 172 passengers aboard. All [...]

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  • Energy Petroceltic Abandons Bulgarian Black Sea Well

    Petroceltic Abandons Bulgarian Black Sea Well

    Dublin-based oil and gas explorer Petroceltic International is to abandon an exploration well off the Bulgarian coast that failed to yield enough gas to justify commercial production. The Kamchia-1 exploration well, part of the Galata exploration concession, reached a total depth of 2,887 feet and encountered 56 feet of carbonate sands with sub-commercial gas saturations, the company said. The drilling rig will now move to complete a development well on the Kaliakra gas discovery, and then drill the company’s first exploration wells offshore Romania later this year. “We are disappointed with the outcome of the Kamchia-1 well and plan to [...]

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  • AGM TV The Anthem Of The Slavic Alphabet

    The Anthem Of The Slavic Alphabet

    The Anthem Of The Slavic Alphabet

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  • Culture Free Books Available in Sofia Metro on May 24

    Free Books Available in Sofia Metro on May 24

    Shelves with free books will be placed inside four Sofia subway stations on May 24 when the country celebrates the Day of Slavic Script and Bulgarian Culture. The initiative “Books in the Subway” belongs to the civic association “Politronik” and the municipal “Metropolitan” company. The four stations are: National Stadium, Serdika, National Palace of Culture, andSofia University. The books will offer a variety of genres. Everyone can borrow a book to read while waiting for the metro or take it home and return it when finished. “Our mission is to support the values of civil society in Bulgaria and [...]

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  • Sport Sharapova Glows in Relationship with Bulgaria’s Dimitrov

    Sharapova Glows in Relationship with Bulgaria’s Dimitrov

    Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has openly commented on her romance with Bulgarian youngster Grigor Dimitrov, saying that the relationship makes her feel refreshed. Sharapova spoke glowingly about her relationship with the 22-year-old Bulgarian in an interview for USA TODAY Sports. “It’s going really well, thank you,” she said. Sharapova said that dating a younger man for the first time has been a refreshing experience. “Maybe it makes me really young, too, inside, which is good.” However, she stated that age is the most important aspect of the relationship. “It’s [...]

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  • Bulgaria-EU Basescu OKs Bulgaria-Romania Danube Bridge II Joint Venture

    Basescu OKs Bulgaria-Romania Danube Bridge II Joint Venture

    Romanian President Traian Basescu has signed into law the ratification of the agreement between Romania and Bulgaria to establish a joint venture for the exploitation of Danube Bridge II. According to Romanian media, cited by the Bulgarian Focus news agency, Basescu has signed the document on Wednesday. The joint venture will collect the tolls and other fees for using the bridge, which will connect Bulgaria‘s Vidin and Romania‘s Calafat. The company will provide about 50 jobs for the fiscal management of the bridge, technical maintenance and control, and administration. In February 2013, officials stated that Danube Bridge II would be inaugurated on May 9, the Day of Europe. For [...]

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  • Business Qatar to Invest Serious Funds in Bulgaria’s Sheep Breeding

    Qatar to Invest Serious Funds in Bulgaria’s Sheep Breeding

    Qatar plans to invest serious money in Bulgarian farming, according to the Academy of Agriculture, SSA. BGN 80 M will be invested in creating science-production facilities for sheepbreeding in various SSA units. The funds will be invested in the course of three years. Facilities for lamb breeding for export will be built in the Livestock BreedingInstitute in the town of Kostinbrod, the Farming Institute in the city of Stara Zagora, the Institute for Mountain Livestock Breeding in the town of Troyan, and the Field Agricultural Station in the city of Targovishte. The project has been agreed on in 2012, but has been [...]

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  • Diplomacy Bulgarian Caretaker PM Set to Make Comeback as Diplomat

    Bulgarian Caretaker PM Set to Make Comeback as Diplomat

    Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov will return to his diplomatic career once his term in office is over. Raykov, who took over as caretaker PM after the center-right GERB government resigned amid massive protests in February, announced that he is one of the eight new proposals for Ambassadors abroad tabled by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party has reacted strongly to the news that Raykov would return to his career as Ambassador to a foreign country, ironically suggesting that [...]

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  • Domestic Bulgarian PM Hopeful: I Took Biggest Challenge in Life

    Bulgarian PM Hopeful: I Took Biggest Challenge in Life

    Plamen Oresharski, the Socialist nomination for Prime Minister, is firm he would apply all possible effort to not only propose a Cabinet, but to have it approved by the Parliament prior to the 7-day deadline required by the law. He spoke at a special press conference after President, Rosen Plevneliev, gave the mandate to the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and to himself as PM hopeful to form the Cabinet. Oresharski further informed that after naming the members of the next government in consultations with all main political parties, [...]

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  • Culture Programme of British Weeks in Bulgaria

    Programme of British Weeks in Bulgaria

    The British Embassy in Bulgaria is organising a two-week festival to celebrate Bulgarian-British ties and co-operation. The British Embassy in Sofia is pleased to present “British Weeks in Bulgaria”, taking place from 26 May to 11 June 2013. This celebration of Bulgarian-British links includes more than twenty events (organised with our partners) to take place in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. The events highlight the close links and prospects resulting from the close relationship between Bulgaria and Great Britain. The events [...]

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  • Sport Monaco Said to Eye Fulham’s Berbatov

    Monaco Said to Eye Fulham’s Berbatov

    French side Monaco is said to be interested in signing Fulham’s Bulgarian forward Dimitar Berbatov, according to a report published by talkSPORT. Berbatov, who scored 15 league goals in his debut season at Craven Cottage, is said to be dissatisfied with life at the club, which finished 12th in Premiership. The 32-year-old Bulgarian forward has become the latest big name to be linked withMonaco, who are planning on making a number of big-money purchases in this summer’s transfer window upon their promotion to France’s [...]

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  • Interview Pollster Aslanov: Bulgaria’s New Parliament to Complete Term

    Pollster Aslanov: Bulgaria’s New Parliament to Complete Term

    Interview of Novinite.com and Novinite.bg with Yurij Aslanov, head of Aphis, a Bulgarian polling agency Which party will form Bulgaria’s next government – the formerly ruling GERB of Boyko Borisov or the Socialist Party, led by Sergey Stanishev? It is difficult to make any forecasts, but my expectation is that Plamen Oresharski, tipped by the Socialists to head their government, is more likely to succeed. There are reports that Socialist party members may surprisingly support the minority cabinet of the [...]

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  • Finance Expats Remain Biggest ‘Foreign’ Investor in Bulgaria

    Expats Remain Biggest ‘Foreign’ Investor in Bulgaria

    Emigrants‘ remittances to Bulgaria continue to grow and amounted to EUR 73.7 M in March 2013, according to data of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB). The amount is larger than the direct foreign investments in the country, which totaled EUR 49.2 M in March. The expats remittances show a 15% increase for that month, making the highest amount since the beginning of the year. From January to March 2013, the emigrants have wired a total of EUR 196.5 M to Bulgaria.

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  • Business Bulgarian, Turkish Transport Ministers Mull ‘Truck’ Problem

    Bulgarian, Turkish Transport Ministers Mull ‘Truck’ Problem

    Bulgarian caretaker Transport Minister, Kristian Krastev, is to meet with Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim, in Leipzig, Germany, on Wednesday. The news was reported Valentin Bozhkov, Director of the Automobile Administration (Bulgaria), cited by the FOCUS News Agency. This is the first meeting of the two countries’ transport ministers since January 2012. Krastev and Yildirim, who already held several phone calls, are expected to seek a permanent solution of the problem with Bulgarian tractor trailers in Turkey. They will negotiate an agreement on freight shipments. The meeting comes on [...]

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  • Bulgaria-EU Bulgarian Nataliya Apostolova to Head EU Delegation to Libya

    Bulgarian Nataliya Apostolova to Head EU Delegation to Libya

    Bulgarian Nataliya Apostolova has been appointed as the new Head of EU Delegation to Libya. Apostolova’s appointment was announced Tuesday by Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Apostolova is currently the EU’s Deputy Head of Delegation to Egypt and has previously worked in the European Commission‘s Directorate-General for Enlargement and at the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU. The EU’s presence in Libya has been expanded significantly since the beginning of the popular uprising in [...]

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  • Domestic Bulgaria’s Rightist GERB Sabotaged Appointment of Replacement MPs

    Bulgaria’s Rightist GERB Sabotaged Appointment of Replacement MPs

    Center-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) is said to have sabotaged Tuesday’s sitting of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) scheduled to appoint replacements of Iliyana Yotova and Rumen Stoyanov from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) who gave up their seats. Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly held its inaugural meeting Tuesday. According to reports of dnevnik.bg, as a result of GERB‘s move, Wednesday’s sitting of Parliament will be attended by 238 MPs, not 240, and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party will [...]

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