News about Bulgaria

Greece tells EC: Bulgaria pollutes our rivers
Greek environment experts have complained to the European Commission that Bulgaria has polluted the Maritsa and Mesta Rivers. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:23 GMT

Siranush Engibarov
... morning hours of August 18, 2008, at the Hurricane Rehabilitation Home. She was born December 27, 1912, in Varna, Bulgaria. Siranush was a very talented woman and all that knew her loved her. She married Zenop Engibarov in 1931. They lived in ... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

AtomStroyExport confirms Euromin contract for Belene site
The unit of Russia's AtomStroyExport hired to build a new nuclear capacity at the Danube town of Belene has signed a contract with the Euromin Build consortium, the company said in response to a Dnevnik ... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:14:00 GMT

Bulgaria Interior Min to Meet Protesting Milk Producers
Bulgaria's Interior Minister Mihail Mikov is to meet Wednesday representatives of the milk producers' associations on protest. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:41:04 GMT

Bulgaria War on Wheels Claims 4 Lives Overnight
Four people died as 25 hellish car crashes were reported overnight across Bulgaria, according to the data of the country's Interior Ministry. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:41:00 GMT

Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle'
... in order to punish or prevent massacres of Turkey's minority Christians. In Greece in the 1820s, Syria in 1860, and Bulgaria in 1876, Mr. Bass argues, we can find examples of the kind of disinterested intervention that American liberals called for ... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:21 GMT

Creditors appeal Bulgarian steelmaker's insolvency
SOFIA, Bulgaria : Foreign creditors in Bulgaria's insolvent Kremikovtzi steel mill said Tuesday they have appealed a court decision that could jeopardize repayment of a 325 million in bonds. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:14:25 GMT

Eric Margolis: Putin Checkmates Bush in Eurasia
... to Washington. Putin put the US on the strategic defensive and showed that NATO's new eastern reaches - the Baltic, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Caucasus - are largely indefensible. It's a good thing Georgia was not admitted to NATO, as the White ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:29:17 GMT

Bulgaria Local Administration Discusses US Military Bases with US Officials
Lieutenant General Gary D. Speer, the Acting Commanding General for the United States Army Europe and Seventh Army met at the Novo Selo grounds with representatives from the local municipal administrations. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:11 GMT

NATO Issues Resolution in Support of Georgia
... in restituting the radar control so that Georgia would resume regular air traffic. Kalfin confirmed that this week Bulgaria was going to send an airplane loaded with 40 tons of humanitarian aid, mainly medicaments. FORUM W T F S S Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:37:58 GMT

50 million for repairs of students' flats
The Cabinet has allocated 50 million leva for the maintenance of University students' accommodation in Studentski Grad, Sofia. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:32:46 GMT

S/E Europe
... a number of villages in the region, which are notorious for growing cannabis," spokeswoman Gergana Moralieva said. Bulgaria is a major transit point on the so-called Balkan route, which brings heroin and other illicit drugs to Western Europe, but ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:49:25 GMT

Police chief: Sorry, what murder?
Krassimir Dimov, the head of the regional police department in the Black Sea town of Primorsko, told prosecutors he remembered nothing about a murder that allegedly happened in his presence, Bulgarian BGNes ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:55:47 GMT

Bulgarian lead, zinc mines face shutdown
Some of Bulgaria's zinc and lead mines may have to be shut down temporarily if the price of the two metals on global markets continues to fall, the executive secretary of the Bulgarian mining and geology ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:54:34 GMT

Bulgaria vs Russia at the Olympics
Bulgaria's volleyball team will play against Russia in the quarterfinal of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games volleyball tournament on August 20 2008. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:52:43 GMT

Bulgaria's Chimimport places 65M euro bond to fund expansion
... include the merger of the Lukoil Garant and CCB Sila pension insurance companies and air carriers Hemus Air and Bulgaria Air, Chimimport said back in June. The company also plans to snag banking assets with a solid regional footprint in Russia and ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:51:41 GMT

Greece refused to share the stage with Macedonia
Greece refused to share the stage with Macedonia during the closing of the folklore festival in Burgas, Bulgaria and made a scandalous exit, Bgnes news agency reported. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:22 GMT

Bulgaria Milk Producers to Block Shipka Pass without Permission
Milk producers from across Bulgaria staged numerous protests in the capital city of Sofia in the recent months. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:38:09 GMT

Children Steal Swords, Yataghan from Fortress Museum in Bulgaria
A total of two swords, a gun with silver facing and an yataghan have been stolen by three children from the medieval Baba Vida fortress in Bulgaria's northwestern town of Vidin. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:38:04 GMT

Bulgarian police seize two tonnes of cannabis
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Police announced on Monday that they found more than two tonnes of cannabis around the southwest town of Blagoevgrad, near the border with Greece. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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