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In Velingrad, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Roumyana Zheleva – the country’s candidate to be one of the new European Commissioners – briefed ambassadors on the Cabinet’s six main foreign policy priorities.
Checks reveal more details of projects that Beautiful Bulgaria will spend its money on this year.
The "Stellar Society - A79" observatory, headed by Filip Fratev, has revealed a total of 16 asteroids, in the last four years
Navigator Flavio Guglielmini died, driver Brian Lavio in hospital after their car left the track and hit a rock.
Three years and six months imprisonment, plus a 16 000 leva fine payable to the municipality of Velingrad, was the sentence handed to a former mayor of the Bulgarian town.
Five years' imprisonment is sought by the prosecution for former Velingrad mayor Beev for abuse of power.
Election day 2009 saw countless reports of irregularities with most major parties accusing each other of vote-buying and other attempts to manipulate the election outcome.
The Transit Roads programme's total value is about 705 million euro, of which 380 million were released as loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB)
An exciting and informative health and travel issue tells you all you need to know about getting and staying healthy as well as offering a special adventure holidays section.
Another five-star hotel beckons for the spa resort of Velingrad deep in the heart of the Rhodope
The calendar marks the spring equinox, but most of Bulgaria finds itself under snow. In Sofia, snow has mostly melted away quickly, but in parts of southern Bulgaria the situation is much worse.
Authorities started confiscating firearms of people owing large amounts of overdue taxes
The special offer provided for the six new regions will include two new phone packages with 100 free minutes per month, and unrestricted Internet access plus a free web hosting of up to 50 MB and a mail box.
This weekend, December 13 and 14, Light for Life Foundation and Bulgarian Mothers Movement, two non-profit organisations, are holding Christmas bazaars to raise money for those who need assistance. Light for Life was founded in 2001 with the goal of supporting and providing care for persons with disabilities. Its activities are focused on providing medical and social care for people with permanent physical and neurological disabilities between the ages of 18 and 65. Initiatives include family therapy and specialised transport services.
Make this Christmas season better for the planet. When shopping for gifts (or, why not, items for yourself) between December 8 and 12 2008, stop by the new Bio Park Sofia in Business Park Sofia for its first holiday bazaar. Available for purchase are various products of organic origin - including ones produced in Bulgaria - like foods (chocolate, bread, yoghurt, wine, baby food), cosmetics and clothing, and gift items that were produced in ways that respect the environment.
I get ridiculously defensive when outsiders criticise Bulgaria. Naturally, I'm aware of its shortcomings: the overt stench of uncollected rubbish, the less palpable but still pungent odour of roguishness when thick-necked wrestler-types emerge from darkened jeeps and, worst of all, the near-death experience when someone shoves an opened bottle of boza in your face
The annual international bike tour Ecotopia will start in Sofia on July 4 and will end in Sinop, Turkey, on August 14. Everyone can register at the website of the event , while an exact map with the route through Bulgaria is available at the website of the local partner of the event, Bikevolution association. Ecotopia bike tour asks its participants to demonstrate their wish for a clean environment by riding their bicycles. It plans to visit alternative, environmental and artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people, who preserve them or resist their destruction.
Zaimov Park, Sunday afternoon. The fuzz from the cottonwoods comes in waves through the air; the wind blows, it comes in flurries. Like locust in Moses' Egypt. I sit on a bench, newly painted green, thinking of summer mornings, summer nights spent in Athens, the WiFi connection in Syntagma Square my only connection to another life.
One side effect of Bulgaria's growing economy is something that is causing a headache for municipalities - a shrinking number of parking places. Designed by communist-era urban planners, Bulgarian cities' centres are no longer capable of accommodating the ever-increasing number of motor vehicles that Bulgarians can afford to buy, due to the large number of leasing companies and the low prices of second-hand motor vehicles.
Land and residential space in Velingrad, in south-western Bulgaria, almost doubled their values for a year, prompted by growing interest from developers, Stroitelstvo Gradut (Construction and the City) weekly reported. The turn of 2008 saw a surge of investor interest to spa tourism in Velingrad area. There was a significant interest in buying rural and forestry land with the purpose to invest in apartment complexes and hotels, the weekly said.
A real estate developer shot his business associate in their office in Bankso after a row. Forty-four year-old Krasimir Kroulev, who has been arrested, was said to have shot his 33 year-old business associate Angel Subev. The incident happened around 1.30am in the office of Decostroi in Bansko, mediapool.bg said.
Literally, van-loads full of documents were confiscated from the Bul Ins insurance company building at Sofia's James Bourchier boulevard during a special police and prosecution operation on November 8, Dnevnik daily said. The prosecution believed the documents could be used in the money laundering investigation against the brothers Krassimir and Nikolai Marinovi and their associates.
Police considers business interests the most probable motive for the public murder of Boncho Zapryanov, committed on the evening of November 4 2007 in Sofia, Sofia deputy chief prosecutor Roman Vassilev said. Zapryanov owned parts of several companies, including in a briquette factory, Vassilev said as quoted by mediapool.bg. Vassilev refused to comment on some of the police versions and did not say
We move house. By my count, it is the 12th time I have moved in my adult life, counting in moving from Cape Town to Sofia; the 13th overall in my life. Our life is in about 70 boxes, ranging from special cardboard portable wardrobes complete with hanging racks to shoeboxes of precious and fragile things. I have bought coloured stickers to colour-code all boxes to designate for which room they are destined. Very
The trial against independent member of Parliament (MP) Pavel Chernev was postponed because he takes part in the municipal elections on October 28 2007. Chernev, who is charged with causing physical injury, runs for mayor of Sofia, mediapool.bg said. On October 15 2007, Sofia City Court postponed the court hearing in the trial until November 20 2007 to prevent the court sentence from being used in pre-election campaigns. Chernev was accused of beating up Ivailo Dachov, activist of the Bulgarian National Union, together with two of his bodyguards, on February 7 2007.
Bus Station South," I told the driver of the taxi that I hailed at the Ivan Vazov end of Vitosha Boulevard. As he speared the car into the Friday afternoon traffic, he glanced up to the rear-view mirror to address me: "You're doing the right thing, going to Borovets. It'll be nice and cold up in the mountains". "Indeed," I replied, although I did not really agree with him. I am from Africa and prefer to take my weather
After a cold and wet trip to England I am happy to be melting in the Bulgarian sun. The only few dry minutes in the wet week I spent there was when I bumped into the Gay festival in the Leicester Square area. The colourful combination of muscular leather clad lispers and an army of kd lang look-alikes did not match the British summer rains. I was surprised to see that the London police did not see this happening as a
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