Thu, Nov 05 2009
The Bulgarian nomination for best foreign-language film at the 2010 Oscars, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner, directed by Stefan Komandarev, won two full-length film awards at the 12th Benalmadena International Short Film Festival held in Malaga on October 16-24. The film won the jury and the audience awards, the first time in the festival’s history that one film won both awards.
On October 26, the Regional Development Ministry and the Bulgarian Construction Chamber hosted a ceremony marking the day of the construction worker in Bulgaria. At the annual Top 50+ construction companies ranking, two awards went to Glavbolgarstroy company, and one to Balkanstroy, Planex Holding and the state company Construction and Restoration.
At Helikon bookshop on October 10, the first part of the Bulgarian-language version of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged was launched, and in a fortnight the book became the book chain’s fourth most-sold book in the literature category. Presiding at the book launch were publisher Kalin Manolov, translator Petyo Angelov, editor Iskra Angelova and economist Luchezar Bogdanov.
In celebration of Spain’s National Day on October 12, ambassador Jorge Fuentes and Cristina Leja de Fuentes hosted a well-attended reception at their residence in Simeonovsko Chaussee. VIP guests included Simeon Saxe-Coburg.
ZZ Top performed its first concert in Bulgaria on October 21 2009, at Sofia's Stadion Akademik as part of its Double Down Live tour.
Arriving only hours before their concert on October 21 2009, ZZ Top was met by a convoy of fans, fake beards and all.
The ambassador of South Africa, Sheila Camerer, and Alex Camerer hosted a reception on October 8 for diplomats, business and community leaders at their residence in Kambanite, Sofia.
Accompanied by police sirens blaring and lights flashing – and the wind howling and rain pouring – participants in the One Life Charity Bike Ride made their way on October 3 from Bankya to Zlatusha.
Bulgaria had its turn for rehearsals on day two of the the Eurovision semi-final rehearsals in Moscow.
The first bicycle lane in the Bulgarian capital nears completion, but can it be used?
© 2000-2009, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.
Web Design by RIZN
Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted.
Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only
with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site.
Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com.
Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments.
The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the
price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes,
and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.
