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Bulgaria Regions Alarmed over Floods, Severe Cold
The southern Bulgarian town of Zlatograd is ready to be evacuated due to heavy downpours, while other parts of the country remain under Code Orange because of the severe winter conditions. The remote municipalities of Zlatograd and Nedelino in the southern Smolyan Region declared emergency already on Sunday, after rain and melting snow caused overflowing of rivers and reservoirs. The level at ...
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Bulgaria Ex-VP Says He Pardoned Fewer Felons Than Predecessor
Bulgaria's former Vice President Angel Marin has pointed out that he pardoned fewer criminals than his predecessor. It recently emerged that Marin pardoned a total of 533 felons during his two terms in office, including many murderers. In an interview for the private bTV channel on Sunday, the former Vice President argued that his predecessor had pardoned more than 1000 criminals during his 5 ...
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Clinton Doesn't Mention Shale Gas in Bulgaria, Vows to Send Energy Envoy
Bulgaria is a key country for the United States in terms of energy strategy, it transpired during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Sofia Sunday. Clinton vowed to pursue work with Bulgaria, especially in the field of nuclear energy and energy sources diversification. "Over next week, I will send US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar to Bulgaria," stated the ...
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Clinton: Bulgaria Is Democratic Example for Arab World
Bulgaria is a success story in the transition from an authoritarian regime to democracy and could help countries in the Arab World, stated US State Secretary Hillary Clinton in Sofia. Sunday Clinton is on an official visit to the Bulgarian capital, where she discussed key global and bilateral matters with local leaders. The US Secretary of State said that Bulgaria has effected its transition ...
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Clinton to Urge Bulgaria to Seek New Energy Sources
During a brief visit to Sofia, US top diplomat is expected to call on Bulgaria to break its dependence on Russian oil, gas
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Bulgaria Welcomes 6th US State Secretary Visit
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Sunday visit to Sofia is the sixth visit of a head of the American diplomatic service to Bulgaria. In February 1990, US Secretary of State James Baker made a trip to Romania and Bulgaria, where he met President Petar Mladenov and opposition representatives. The second visit was in November 1999 by Madeleine Albright, who prepared the imminent visit of ...
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Bulgaria's Maxim Behar to Defend Transparency at World PR Forum in Davos
Bulgaria's top PR expert Maxim Behar, a CEO of M3 Communications Group, Inc. in Bulgaria and a Chairman of Hill+Knowlton Strategies ? Czech Republic, will be defending publicity in the opening debate at the World Communication Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr....
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Clinton urges Bulgaria to be energy independent
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Bulgaria, urging the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies.
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Bulgaria Marks World Cancer Day
Bulgaria joins Saturday many countries across the globe in marking February 4th - World Cancer Day, dedicated to raising awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer Day, WCD, is an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), a leading international non-governmental organization dedicated to the prevention and control of cancer ...
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Bulgaria's Ex EU Commissioner Civic Project on Way to Politics
The civic movement, dubbed "Bulgaria for Citizens," established by former Bulgarian European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, is on its way to turn into a political party. On Saturday, during the first ever meeting in the country, after the establishment of the movement, Kuneva told about 100 citizens of the city of Shumen that "Bulgaria for Citizens" could turn into a political project. She ...
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Russian Gas Supplies for Bulgaria Back to Normal
Russian gas supplies for Bulgaria and transit for Turkey, Greece and Macedonia have been reinstated to normal volume, the Ministry of Economy and Energy reports Saturday. Over the last 24 hours Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Macedonia have been reduced by 1/3, prompting the Ministry to create emergency headquarters to monitor them. According to the announcement, pressure at ...
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Bulgaria Braces for Fresh Weekend Snow
Nine Bulgarian regions remain under code yellow Saturday over fog and snow, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) has announced. In the regions of Vidin, Montana, Vratsa and Pleven in northwestern Bulgaria the warning is over expected snowfall and ice; in Plovdiv and Pazardzhik in southern Bulgaria ? over fog, in Blagoevgrad in ...
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Bulgaria Asks Clinton to Keep Joint Military Grounds with US
Bulgaria is going to appeal to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to keep the joint Bulgarian-American military training grounds. The call will be made during Clinton's 5-hour visit to Bulgaria on Sunday, February 5, according to the Bulgarian "Standard" daily. The training grounds are important not only for the country, but on regional level as well, and Bulgaria wants to continue using them ...
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Bulgaria's 'Arsenal' Military Plant Braces for Massive Layoff
Over 900 employees of Bulgaria's Arsenal Kazanlak, one of the largest military factories in the Balkans, will be laid off, it was made clear after the plant's managing body met with representatives of the local municipality. Approximately 600 of the workers about to be laid off are employed on temporary contracts, while 94 have reached the age of retirement, the Bulgarian National Radio ...
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Bulgaria Air to Purchase 9 Embraer Jets by End of 2014
Bulgaria's Bulgaria Air airline carrier will acquire 9 state-of-the-art Brazilian Embraer jets by the end of 2014, it was announced on Friday. The new planes will allow Bulgaria Air to increase its weakly frequency of flights to some European destinations and re-launch its flights to Prague, the company's CEO Yanko Georgiev has said, according to the Standart daily. The first E-190 aircraft is ...
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Bulgaria PM to Inspect Danube Bridge 2 Construction Each Month
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will personally inspect the construction of the so-called Danube Bridge 2 between Bulgaria and Romania each month, it has been made clear. "I wasn't to know what these companies that receive so much money are doing every day," the Prime Minister declared during the latest Council of Ministers sitting. On Wednesday, the Bulgarian government decided to draw ...
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Bulgaria's Ex-VP Okayed Two-Thirds of Citizenship Requests
Bulgaria's former Vice President Angel Marin okayed 81 749 out of a total of 132 288 Bulgarian citizenship applications during his two terms in office, it has emerged. 3.5 times more applications for Bulgarian citizenship were given the thumbs up in the period 2002-2011 than in the preceding 10 years, the BGNES news agency has estimated. ...
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Bulgaria's Ex President Parvanov Back to Socialist Party
Bulgaria's former President Georgi Parvanov, who completed his second 5-year term on January 22, 2012, has already re-joined his native Socialist Party. Parvanov was the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (technically the descendant of the Bulgarian Communist Party) between 1997 and 2001, when he quit since he got elected to the Bulgarian Presidency, which paved the way for his successor ...
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Kraft Foods Bulgaria CEO Antoine Collette: Bulgaria Moves in Right Direction, Should be Faster
Exclusive interview with Antoine Collette, Executive Director of Kraft Foods Bulgaria, for the "Investors of the Decade" Business Survey of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and Novinite.bg. ...
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Bulgaria Says It Won't Ratify ACTA Unconditionally
Bulgaria will ratify the ACTA trade agreement, but the country will keep its current legislation in the field of Internet services, it emerged on Thursday. On Thursday, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov met with representatives of the local IT sector, Internet Service Providers and MPs with his ruling centrist-right GERB to discuss the controversial agreement. Bulgaria will express its ...
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