Sat, Nov 21 2009

Bulgaria contemplates the purchase of two new minesweepers, amidst the French Armaris corvette deal which has dragged on for years.
French ship building firm Armaris, which would construct two Gowind corvettes for Bulgarian navy, applied for the privatisation of Defence Ministry's Terem - KRZ Naval Arsenal shipyard in Varna, French ambassador to Bulgaria Etienne de Poncins said on July 14. Bulgarian news agency BTA quoted de Poncins as saying that Armaris wanted to construct a ship repairs centre at Terem - KRZ Naval Arsenal.
On December 6, the Government removed from its agenda the deal with France's Armaris for the construction of four GOWIND corvettes for the Bulgarian military. The 750 million euro deal was discussed at political level between President Georgi Purvanov and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on October 4 in Bulgaria. Although the deal was widely advertised by Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov
The white tigress is a rare animal resulting from a special recessive gene
The agreement was signed in Brussels earlier this week but it's still a long way off before the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian brigade can be formalized as an international agreement.
Affected by quarantine and panic, life in Kyiv has been subdued in the past few weeks.
The number of Russians worrying about contracting the A(H1N1) flu virus grew to 70 per cent in November from 57 per cent in September.
The Polytechnic University or Politechniu in Greek, was the scene of a massacre in 1973, when Greek army tanks broke into the University and shot students indiscriminately, killing dozens of youths.