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Weekend blog: Bulgaria's children

Oct 25 2008 00:00 CET by Rene Beekman

"We caught a paedophile online - Lyubo from Montana wants to have sex with a 14-year-old girl," the front-page headline of Bulgarian daily 24 Chasa read on October 23 2008. "We caught him when we made a false profile of a 14-year-old girl which included provocative nude pictures," the article starts.

Separating professionals from amateurs

Life insurance agents discuss how the financial crisis will affect their business
Oct 24 2008 10:00 CET by Nina Todorova

While the Bulgarian insurance market experiences temporary confusion owing to the economic crisis and the low trust of clientele, Matteo Pederzoli, regional director of The Premier Association of Financial Professionals (MDRT), compared the crisis to a watershed that will divide the professionals from the amateurs.

Mark your calendar: Argentinian tango socials in Sofia

Oct 17 2008 17:42 CET by Nina Todorova

TanguerIN Studio opens a new milonga (tango party), hosting Social Jazz Club at 4 Slaveykov Square on October 20 2008 at 8pm. You can dance, watch and listen to the Argentinian tango, see Buenos Aires screenings and surprise demonstrations on every first and third Monday of the month. TanguerIN founder, Ivo Paroushev, will talk about the tango tradition to introduce each of the three Argentinian films that will run during this year's Kinomania on November 21-23.

Advertising stereotypes

Ethical makeover for Bulgaria's pop-folk singers in alcohol advertisements by 2010
Oct 17 2008 10:00 CET by Nina Todorova

Following the results of the September 3 European Parliament report on negative gender stereotyping in advertising, a number of European organisations and Bulgarian companies have called for strict and responsible advertising. They also emphasised the need for self-regulation by advertisers, expressing particular concern over degrading images of women in print and the electronic media. Representing women as sex objects, or as

World Food Day to raise awareness in Bulgaria

Oct 16 2008 11:52 CET by Nina Todorova

To acknowledge World Food Day, celebrated each October 16 since 1945, the Health Ministry will give a news conference to inform the public on strategies to deal with the global warming effects on food production and safety. Bulgarian experts will gather at the National Centre for Public Health Protection to discuss how climate change can affect water and food supply globally and regionally since Bulgaria belongs to a high risk geographical area.

Decisions on property and Patriarch's powers as Bulgarian Orthodox Church continues to mull its future

Oct 13 2008 15:38 CET by Nina Todorova

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has revised its statute to ban selling or mortgaging church property, and will trim back the powers of its head, the Patriarch, in favour of more power for the Holy Synod. These were among decisions made at the church's sixth National Church Council, which resumed for a week of discussions from October 6 to 12 2008 after being unable to deal with all its agenda items at the initial meeting in May. This time around, church leaders again did not manage to get through the list - the national council will resume again from December 9 to 12.

Grandmaster Berbatov to open Sofia City Festival

Oct 10 2008 12:39 CET by Nina Todorova

Bulgaria's young chess star Kiprian Berbatov, cousin of Manchester United player Dimitar Berbatov, will open the two-day Sofia City Festival on October 11 2008 at noon at Zaimov Park (formerly Oborishte Park).

Bulgaria offers Russian property investors safe haven -officials

Oct 09 2008 16:47 CET by Nina Todorova

Bulgaria will continue to be a safe haven for Russian property investors despite the global financial crunch, a panel of Bulgarian officials have said during Sofia-Moscow video conference that is part of a series on the prospects of Russian-Bulgarian cooperation in the field of tourism, organised by Russian news agency RIA Novosti organized at the Hilton hotel in Sofia.

More jobs for disabled people

Oct 08 2008 14:52 CET by Nina Todorova

The fourth annual Career Day for Disabled People, which took place at Sofia's Radisson SAS Hotel on October 8 2008, proved to be a good opportunity for more than a hundred job seekers with disabilities and about 20 employers to meet and match the professional skills they bring to the Bulgarian labour market to specific job profiles. The goal is to increase employment of people with disabilities in both the private and public sectors.

Anna Politkovskaya, Bulgaria and free speech

Oct 07 2008 15:16 CET by Nina Todorova

The Anna Politkovskaya Free Speech Association organised a church service in memorial of the brutally murdered Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, at the St Sophia Church on October 7 2008. The service was followed by a protest against the "putinisation" of Bulgaria in front of the Moscow House at 92 Rakovska Street.

BULGARIA'S BANSKO JAZZ FEST GATHERS INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITIES FOR NINTH TIME

Jul 07 2006 09:01 CET

The organisers of the ninth annual Bansko jazz fest to take place from August 8 to 13 announced the participants in the event. This year nearly 150 musicians from around the world perform in Bulgaria's leading winter resort, avtora.com reported. Bulgarian participants included singers Nina Nikolina and Kamelia Todorova and percussionist Kalin Velyov. This year's highlight included Cuban performers Raul Paz and Sexto Sentido. Although Raul Paz was born in Cuba, he performed mainly in France and at jazz festivals around

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