Exclusive interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, International Cooperation and Crisis Response. Kristalina Georgieva was born on August 13, 1953, in Sofia, Bulgaria. She earned her MA in Political Economy and Sociology in 1976 and her Ph.D. in economics in 1986 from the University of National and [...]
June 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with Deborah Haines, General Manager of the Radisson Blu Grand Hotel in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Haines has been part of the management of a Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham, the United Kingdom. She assumed her position at the Radission Blu Grand Hotel in Sofia effective February 16, 2010, [...]
May 5, 2010 | Posted in
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Exclusive Novinite.com interview with Professor Nikolay Kolev, President of the Bulgarian Cricket Federation (BCF). What led to your personal interest in cricket and how did you decide to get involved with the game on a national level? Until the end of the last century we perceived cricket as one of the many sports of the [...]
April 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Interview with Toby Iles, analyst for Central & Eastern Europe at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) After gaining a first class undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, Toby Iles undertook further study at the University of Cambridge and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Subsequent to this he joined the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in [...]
March 20, 2010 | Posted in
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Exclusive interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with the Chief Architect of Sofia, Petar Dikov. Twenty years ago Sofia used to be a city of 1 million people with closed residence. Today some estimates place its population at 3 million people, and over 1 million cars. How has Sofia changed during the post-communist transition? How [...]
December 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Novinite.com Interview with Iliya Keleshev, Chair of Bulgaria’s Branch Chamber on Machine Building. You have been the Chair of the Bulgarian Branch Chamber for Machine Building since it was set up in 1991. What happened with the machine building sector in Bulgaria over the last 20 years of post-communist transition? How would you compare the [...]
December 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Novinite.com exclusive interview with Elizabeth Kostova, a contemporary American writer deeply related to Bulgaria. Elizabeth Kostova (née Johnson) was born in New London, Connecticut in 1964, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Kostova is best-known for her debut novel, The Historian, [...]
December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Exclusive interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with Bulgarian Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova. Bokova was elected Director-General of UNESCO in September 2009 after a tough battle in five rounds at the UNESCO Executive Council. In the final round, Bokova won against the Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni with 31 vs. 27 votes. She has [...]
November 15, 2009 | Posted in
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Interview with Franco Del Fabbro, CEO of Kraft Foods Bulgaria Kraft Foods Bulgaria opened recently its expanded chocolate factory in the Bulgarian town of Svoge. What is the amount of the investment there and what is its significance? Kraft Foods inv?sted BGN 40 million into the enlarging of the production capacities in the chocolate factory [...]
November 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Interview with Nada Tosheva, Executive Director at the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB). The EC Commission has sent a written warning to Bulgaria for systematic failure to provide adequate protection for its bird sites. What should Bulgaria do in the short-term to avoid being punished? This is the second warning dealing with [...]
November 4, 2009 | Posted in
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