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Bulgaria Stands Firm on Shady DTT Mux Deals - Report
Bulgaria will not declare void the controversial tenders for the operation of what will be the country's DTT multiplexes despite pressure from Brussels. This emerges from Bulgaria's Transport Ministry official statements in response to a list of questions, submitted by local Kapital Daily. The inquiry came a week after the European Commission issued a final warning to Bulgaria over the ...
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Bulgaria Seeks Friendly Outcome on Nuclear Plant and Gas
SOFIA, Bulgaria ? Bulgaria hopes to dissuade Russian nuclear power plant builder Atomstroyexport from taking legal action after Sofia dropped plans for a power station at Belene that the company had been contracted to build, the economy minister said.
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Bulgaria, Villa Captain Petrov Thanks All for Support
The captain of Bulgaria and Aston Villa Stiliyan Petrov, who has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia, has issued a statement of gratitude for the overwhelming support he got from fans. "I would like to thank all of the people who have left messages of support - the response has been overwhelming and I appreciate it very much," Stiliyan Petrov said Saturday afternoon in a special statement ...
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Bulgaria captain Petrov to retire - media report
Bulgaria captain Stiliyan Petrov, the Balkan country's most capped player, has decided to end his soccer career after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia, Bulgarian media reported on Saturday.
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Bulgaria Registers BGN 565 M Deficit in Jan-Feb 2012
Bulgaria has completed the first two months of 2012 with a budget deficit of BGN 565 M on cash base, the Finance Ministry announced Saturday providing data for the so called "Consolidated Fiscal Program", including the state budget and EU transactions. Thus, in January-February 2012, Bulgaria's state budget registered a deficit of BGN 327.6 M, while Bulgaria's EU payment balance (i....
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Bulgaria captain Petrov to retire: media report
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria captain Stiliyan Petrov, the Balkan country's most capped player, has decided to end his soccer career after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia, Bulgarian media reported on Saturday. "Football is over, this is the end," the Aston Villa midfielder was quoted as saying in the Bulgarian sports daily Tema Sport on Saturday. "I am now beginning to fight for my life and I ...
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Bulgaria captain Petrov to retire - media report
Bulgaria captain Stiliyan Petrov, the Balkan country's most capped player, has decided to end his soccer career after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia, Bulgarian media reported on Saturday.
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Bulgaria, Aston Villa Captain Stan Petrov Begins Battle for Life
Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has appealed to his team to play for Bulgarian national and Aston Villa skipper Stiliyan "Stan" Petrov during the Saturday face-off with Chelsea. The shocking news that Petrov, the captain of Bulgaria's national football team and the English club Aston Villa, has been diagnosed with leukemia was reported one day earlier. Aston Villa was considering cancelling the ...
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Bulgaria's Prime Minister to visit Armenia
Borisov's visit to the South Caucasus follows the invitation of the Prime Ministers of Georgia and Armenia.
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Russia's Gazprom cuts gas prices to Bulgaria: minister
Russia's gas giant Gazprom has agreed to cut natural gas prices to Bulgaria by just over 11 percent, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said after talks in Moscow on Friday.
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Bulgaria Producer Price Inflation Falls In February
Bulgaria's producer price inflation slowed in February, data from the National Statistical Institute showed Friday.
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Bulgaria Officially Tells Russia It Scrapped Belene NPP
Bulgaria has sent a note to Russia asking it to launch negotiations on the cancellation of the two countries' Belene nuclear power plant project that was to be built in Bulgaria, according to a report. On Thursday, Russian Deputy PM Igor Sechin is expected to meet with representatives of the Russian Energy Ministry and state-owned company Rosatom in order to form Russia's official stance on the ...
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Bulgaria's President Gets Lost in Infrastructure Dreams
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has painted a rather dreamy picture of the Bulgarian infrastructure in 2020 while speaking at 7th annual "Strategic Infrastructure Bulgaria" conference in Sofia. "Sofia can turn into the only city on the planet where people can go skiing by subway. There's no other place in Europe or the world where one can go to the ski track from the metro station," stated ...
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Bulgaria to Face Penalties Exceeding USD 58 M over Belene NPP Suspension
Bulgaria faces penalties amounting to way over USD 58 M over the cancellation of the Belene NPP project, Russian media warn. Citing sources from Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom, Moscow-based business daily Vedomosti reports that this is the cost of the already carried out preparatory works on the site near the northern Bulgarian town of Belene. The newspaper reminds that Rosatom ...
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Argus Launches Forward Price Assessments for Bulgaria and Greece
LONDON, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus has become the first global energy price reporting organisation to provide forward price assessments for wholesale electricity in Bulgaria and Greece. The new ...
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Bulgaria Fired Minister: Bravo for Belene, Too Early to Party
Bulgaria's decision to abandon plans to build Belene nuclear power plant is the best one, the former energy and economy minister has said, adding also a word of caution. "Things did not look very promising while I was in the government. Obviously something has happened following my resignation, which has tipped the scales in favor of this decision....
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Bulgaria Shelves Belene Nuclear Plant Plans
Bulgaria cites a lack of funding for not pursuing a planned nuclear power plant at Belene
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Bulgaria scraps communist-era nuclear plant plan
The decision to cancel the project follows pledges by Prime Minister Boiko Borisov?s center-right government to lessen Bulgaria?s almost complete energy dependence on Russia. read more
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Bulgaria Seeks Investors for Gas Turbine Power Plant
Bulgaria is looking for potential investors in its gas turbine power plant that is to be constructed in the Danube town of Belene, the country's Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Valentin Nikolov has revealed. On Wednesday, Bulgaria officially abandoned the Belene Nuclear Power Plant which Sofia and Moscow had agreed on in 2008. Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Goranov announced that a gas ...
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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday.
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