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The State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC) released a commemorative stamp collection entitled 120 Years Orient-Express on September 11 2008.
The stamp collection consists of a series of two postage stamps, an illustrated envelope at a price of 0.6 leva and a special postage stamp.
Through the years, many different trains and different routes have used the name Orient Express. Several of these routes have crossed Bulgaria.
Sep 10 2008 11:17 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
One of the most fascinating and controversial scientific experiments, involving the largest particle accelerator ever built, was scheduled to be held in Switzerland on September 10 2008 - and of the team of more than 6000 scientists involved, 100 are from Bulgaria.
In a story especially written for The Sofia Echo published on September 12, science correspondent Bozhidar Stefanov explains the meaning of the experiments involving the "God particle".
Leader of Ataka, Volen Siderov said at the press conference that Ataka would consolidate its position as one of the three major political forces.
He expected Ataka candidates to reach second rounds in Bourgas and Yambol. In Blagoevgrad and in Kyustendil, the candidates supported by Ataka were first in the first round.
When results from the municipal elections started coming in on October 28, it became clear that Sofia, Kurdjali, Plovdiv and Varna had re-elected their current mayors in the first round.
In Sofia, Boiko Borissov (GERB) was re-elected with a little more than 50 per cent.
Independent candidate, backed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, and current mayor of Varna, Kiril Yordanov won in the first round with about 54 per cent.
In Plovdiv, current mayor Slavcho Atanasov of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) and GERB was re-elected with about 56 per cent.
With a national percentage of 21 per cent of the votes, Bulgarian Socialist Party was still the first political force, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said at a press conference on October 28 in a reaction to the first results of the municipal elections.
According to Stanishev, GERB received 17 per cent of the votes, while Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria received 14 per cent.
We achieved what we were aiming for, he said. "How many parties achieved such a result in elections the middle of a mandate," Stanishev asked.
Stanishev compared GERB's result in the elections to those of National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP) in the elections of 2001.
"With these results, we'd better close down the party," election staff of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was joking at the end of the municipal election day on October 28. BSP deputies asked one another regularly where and which how much the party had lost, Dnevnik daily said. Later that even, with collective efforts, election team and leaders of the party calculated, based on exit polls, how to explain that the
Problems during the municipal elections on October 28 ranged from a lack of voting ballots and vote-buying to accusations of transparent ballots which did not protect voters' secrecy of vote.
Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said on October 28 that vote-buying in these elections could not be ignored. In total, he said, 66 warnings had been received by the Interior Ministry, of which so far 16 had led to written statements.
Interior Minster Roumen Petkov said "society needs to think about where this is going." It was the first time there had been no tolerance for vote-buying, Petkov said. As a consequence, it had been the first elections with arrests, the first elections where people would be prosecuted and the first elections where the police had knowledge about roughly 30 cases of vote-buying, he said.
In a first reaction after results from exit polls were announced, Boiko Borissov (GERB) told reporters that the three parties in the coalition had committed a betrayal of Bulgaria by allowing thousands of Turks to come in to vote. He said that many parties had sent people to Sofia to talk nonsense and Borissov said he was grateful to the people of Sofia that they had not listened.
Slavi Binev, Ataka's candidate, said that people in Bulgaria seemed to prefer "eating promises rather than something real". This should change, he said, and said that he had not had enough time to explain all his ideas, but vowed to persist with his message.
A spokesperson for the camp of the Democratic Party candidate Titi Papazov said that it was surprising that populism had triumphed in Sofia, especially because Papazov was a good candidate who spoke his mind. The DP had not supported Zaimov because it had not been invited to do so, the spokesperson said, but denied that the right-wing was split.
Provisional exit polls in Bulgaria's October 28 municipal polls appeared to confirm the upward national political arc of the party led by Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov.
Elected in 2005, Borissov - who has carefully cultivated a "can-do" strongman image since serving as chief of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry - was said to be the clear front-runner in Sofia. As polls closed, he was said to have 52.6 per cent of the vote, compared to Martin Zaimov, the candidate of two right-wing parties (who was reported to have 19.6 per cent), and Brigo Asparouhov, a, a former communist-era securocrat who was the candidate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), who was said to have 13.2 per cent.
