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Discounter chains Penny Market, Plus open stores in Bulgaria

Nov 16 2009 15:19 CET by Nick Iliev

Both retailers target at least 50 outlets in Bulgaria by the end of 2010.

Apathy mars Sofia vote as Fandukova looks set to win

Nov 15 2009 17:51 CET by Gabriel Hershman

Low turnout mars Sofia's mayoral election as GERB candidate Fandukova looks set to triumph

Bulgarian Orthodox Church to charge more to approve divorces

Oct 27 2009 14:25 CET by Clive Leviev-Sawyer 2 comments

While in Bulgaria only civil marriages and divorces have legal standing, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will not allow a person to re-marry unless the church has formally approved the divorce – and plans to up the fee to do so.

Mayoral by-election campaigns start in Sofia, other towns

Oct 20 2009 10:05 CET by Petar Kostadinov

Bulgaria's November 15 2009 special elections are being held after a number of mayors became MPs after the July 5 national elections.

Retail craze

Oct 09 2009 10:00 CET by Alex Bivol 6 comments

Despite the economic recession, retail chains are aggressively expanding onto the Bulgarian market

Penny Market to open 20 stores in Bulgaria by end-2009

Oct 07 2009 16:27 CET by Nick Iliev 3 comments

The total investment in Bulgaria is worth about 250 million euro.

Resignations follow bust of police racketeering group

Sep 16 2009 15:30 CET by Petar Kostadinov

If the entire town knew about the gang and their superior did not, that means that he did not have enough control over the work of his people, Interior Minister says.

Bulgarian Interior Ministry busts road police racketeering group

Sep 13 2009 13:52 CET by Alex Bivol 1 comment

Eight Bulgarian road police officers from the town of Byala Slatina in north-western Bulgaria were arrested on suspicion of forming an organised crime ring that issued illegal traffic tickets.

Bulgarian drug boss strikes second deal with prosecutors

Aug 25 2009 17:44 CET by Petar Kostadinov

Dimitar 'The Eyes' Zhelyazkov will spend three more months in jail after confessing to prosecutors for a second time.

Borissov Cabinet replaces all 28 regional governors

Aug 20 2009 11:15 CET by Clive Leviev-Sawyer 3 comments

After replacing 18 regional governors on August 13, a Cabinet meeting a week later completed the process, choosing new regional governors mostly from among municipal councillors and MP candidates from Boiko Borissov’s party who did not make it into Parliament.

Sofia elections for mayor set for November 15

Aug 13 2009 12:15 CET by Petar Kostadinov

Sofia, Vratsa, Razlog, Ruen and Radnevo set to have special mayoral elections

Clairvoyant faces prison after taking 100 000 leva and acting as a gynaecologist

Aug 10 2009 11:56 CET by Nick Iliev 5 comments

Totevska had repeatedly insisted in her self-defence that she never practised medicine, only fortune- telling and that she is a self-proclaimed clairvoyant

Totyu Mladenov (45) – Labour and Social Policy Minister

Jul 31 2009 09:58 CET by The Sofia Echo staff

Mladenov is known best for his work in the Podkrepa labour union and as head of the Chief Labour Inspectorate in 2002/07

More vacancies at Sofia city hall after cabinet announcement

Jul 23 2009 14:59 CET by The Sofia Echo staff

Vratsa and Sofia to hold early local elections after new cabinet line-up is announced

Vote-buying and other alleged irregularities on election-day - report

Jul 05 2009 21:56 CET by Rene Beekman

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.

Ban on the sale of liquor takes effect on election day July 5

Jul 03 2009 14:39 CET by The Sofia Echo staff

City halls have the power to decide the time frame of the ban on alcohol in stores, bars and restaurants

Borissov and Stanishev in bitter war of words

Jun 25 2009 11:56 CET by Clive Leviev-Sawyer

GERB leader Borissov alleges ruling coalition is planning electoral abuses; irked by television adverts for the Bulgarian Socialist Party re-running extracts from the GERB-BSP clash in Bankya.

Two countries in harmony

Jun 05 2009 10:00 CET by The Sofia Echo staff 1 comment

Italian ambassador in Sofia Stefano Benazzo talks about bilateral relations a year since his appointment

Sirens to sound on June 2 in honour of Botev

Jun 01 2009 16:29 CET by The Sofia Echo Staff

Annual commemoration marks the anniversary of the day the Bulgarian revolutionary and poet died in the struggle against Ottoman rule.

British Embassy leads clean-up operation in Vitosha national park

May 18 2009 14:00 CET by Nick Iliev 4 comments

More than 12 tons of waste were removed from the mountains and other national parks in a massive operation conducted by thousands of volunteers in 2007.

Vratsa and the Balkan

May 15 2009 10:00 CET by Nick Iliev

Part four of The Sofia Echo’s series on hiking in Bulgaria presents the versatile cocktail called the Vratsa Balkan range in the northern parts of Stara Planina Mountain

Plans to ban imports of hazardous Turkish cement

Apr 28 2009 14:12 CET by Nick Iliev 1 comment

Turkish cement has been deemed dangerous by the Bulgarian Association of Cement Industries and the Ministry of Health.

Holsim Bulgaria lays off 90 workers

Apr 27 2009 14:58 CET by Nick Iliev

The measures were attributed to a sharp decline in demand for cement, as well as the increased import of cheap Turkish cement.

Economic crisis knocks down housing prices throughout Bulgaria

Apr 24 2009 10:32 CET by Dnevnik.bg

Residential prices will slip to their lowest in the third quarter of up to 30 per cent on an annual basis, analysts say.

Penny Market 78 000 sq m logistics complex being built outside Sofia

Apr 14 2009 14:08 CET by Nick Iliev 1 comment

Company to invest 30 million leva and create more than 500 permanent jobs in the region, it says. Ten other stores are under construction nationwide.

Under siege: Snow, strike seal Bulgaria's borders

Feb 21 2009 15:36 CET by Alex Bivol 4 comments

Long lines of cargo trucks line Bulgaria's border checkpoints as ample snowfall and a strike in northern Greece have all but barred access to the country.

Bulgaria marks 161st anniversary of the birth of Hristo Botev, poet and revolutionary hero

Jan 06 2009 12:47 CET by Svetlana Guineva

On January 6 2009, Bulgaria marks the 161st anniversary of the birth of Hristo Botev, a prominent revolutionary and publicist, renowned for his critical essays and insightful poetry, Bulgarian news agency Focus reported.

Farmers protest in central Sofia

Dec 19 2008 15:03 CET by Nick Iliev

Over 150 farmers have congregated at Alexander Nevski Square in Sofia on December 19, but this is only the front line of the march that started in Pleven a day earlier. Reinforcements are expected to arrive later in the day, with as many as 500 farmer expected to stage the protest in the Sofia city centre. The protesters have brought around 200 farming vehicles and there is a possibility that more machinery will be deployed as well.

Bulgaria signs contracts for 234M leva under EU's operational programme Environment

Dec 15 2008 16:14 CET by Nick Iliev

The first contracts for the European Union's operational programme Environment were signed on December 15 by the mayors of 13 municipalities and the Environment Miniser Djevdet Chakurov. The total worth of the contracts was evaluated at a total of 234 million leva. The projects refer to works encompassing a wide range of infrastructure facilities, including refuse dumps, drainage ditches and canals, wastewater treatment stations, as well as logistical and technical support facilities.

Veliko Turnovo gets wireless internet coverage

Nov 27 2008 15:20 CET by Magdalena Rahn

Residents of Veliko Turnovo have, as of November 27 2008, access to wireless internet services, WiMAX service provider Nexcom-Bulgaria announced in a press statement on the same day. The wifi base stations were unveiled at a presentation ceremony at Rachev Hotel Boliarski.

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