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Research and Markets: Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012 - Bulgaria Proposes a Procurement With Croatia ...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc487c/bulgaria_defence_a) has announced the addition of the "Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012" report to their offering.
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Bulgaria Welcomes Czech President Vaclav Klaus
Czech President and former Prime Minister of the country, Vaclav Klaus, is arriving in Bulgaria Tuesday on a working visit. Klaus is traveling on the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart, Rosen Plevneliev. The two will hold a behind closed door meeting, prior to talks between the official delegations. ...
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Bulgaria Deploys New 300-Strong Unit to Afghanistan
A send-off ceremony will be held in Karlovo, Central Bulgaria, on Tuesday for a 300-strong military unit which will join the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to provide security at Kandahar Airport. The unit's commander is Major Mitko Baltov. Bulgaria has deployed more than 600 troops in Afghanistan guarding the airports in Kabul and Kandahar, and a medical unit in the ...
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Bulgaria-Romania 2nd Danube Bridge to Be Completed Nov 2012
The construction of the long-anticipated second bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube will be completed by November 2012, according to the Bulgarian government. The construction of the bridge between Bulgaria's Vidin and Romania's Calafat by the Spanish company FCC was inspected Monday by Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski and EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev ...
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Bulgaria's National Power Utility to Seek 15% Price Increase
The National Electricity Company (NEK) is expected to seek a price increase of at least 15% from July 01, according to Mihail Andonov, the new Director of the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH). In a Monday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Andonov explained that the electricity prices approved by the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) for the regulatory period ...
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Bulgaria's Socialist Leaders Shoot One Another in Hit YouTube Video
Bulgaria's Socialist Party leaders who are now battling for the chairmanship ? ex President Georgi Parvanov and ex PM Sergei Stanishev ? have ended up dueling in a hit YouTube video. The black and white video montage entitled "Duel - Parvanov-Stanishev" features Bulgaria's ex head of state and ex prime minister as Russian nobles in a duel with antiquated guns, speaking in Russian. The video ...
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Bulgaria's Long-Delayed Key Tunnel Project Gets Eco Permit
One of the largest infrastructure projects in Bulgaria ? though still only imaginary ? the Shipka Pass Tunnel ? has received the approval of the Bulgarian Environment Ministry. The Supreme Expert Environmental Council at the Minister granted a permit to the project on Monday, the Coalition for Sustainable Development, a NGO, has announced. The tunnel at the Shipka Pass in the very middle of ...
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Bulgaria's Top Court to Rule on US Co Shale Gas Permit in May
Bulgaria's top court will deliver its decision on the appeal against the award of Vranino 1-11 block to US company Park Place in May, it emerged on Monday. The Bulgarian government has formally approved a 5-year concession for oil and gas prospecting in a 400 sq.km....
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Bulgaria's Kostov: Agony over Belene N-Plant Continues
Bulgaria's agony over plans for a second nuclear power plant continues unabated, a rightist leader said on Monday as the final decision on the project was delayed yet again. Uncertainty over the fate of Belene nuclear power plant project only intensified on Monday after a keenly-awaited phone conversation between the prime ministers of Bulgaria and Russia. According to media reports Prime ...
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Bulgaria Resumes Impudent Kidnap Case despite Murder
The Sofia City Court resumed Monday the high-profile organized crime case codenamed The Impudent, after one of the alleged members of the gang with the same name was killed over the weekend. The magistrates lifted the charges against Kiril Kirilov AKA Shkafa (The Commode). Shkafa, who has a long rap sheet, was shot Saturday into Sunday in front of his apartment building in the Mladost-3 district ...
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Bulgaria's Turkish Leader: Morals in Politics Are Detrimental
Striving for morals in politics is detrimental for the State, according to Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish leader, Ahmed Dogan. The statement has been made by the leader of the ethnic party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, on March 16th before participants in the national program "Management Skills," the Bulgarian Trud (Labor) daily writes, citing their own sources. "The qualities of any ...
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PM Borisov: Putin Will Learn Bulgaria's Position on Belene NPP Monday
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov will have a phone call Monday with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to finalize the fate of long-delayed joint energy project Belene NPP. This was revealed by Borisov during an interview with Bulgarian TV channel TV7 Sunday. The Bulgarian PM said that he is set to talk with Putin at 10....
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Bulgaria ex-PM Set to Solve Theseus' Paradox
Former Bulgarian PM Reneta Indzhova, who was recently appointed head of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute, likened her new job to mending the Ship of Theseus. "At the Statistics Bureau you have to steer the Ship of Theseus. The question is whether it's a new one, and if so, whether the new one lives up to the old one, and vice versa," commented Indzhova in an interview for TV7 Sunday. ...
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Bulgaria Air Adds First Embraer E190
Three Additional Regional Jets To Be Delivered By Year's End The first Embraer E190 to be operated by Bulgaria Air has been delivered to the airline by the planemaker in a ceremony at the airline?s headquarters in Bulgaria?s capital city, Sofia. Three additional E-Jets on order for the airline will be delivered by the end of this year.
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Bulgaria Switches to Daylight Saving Time
Bulgaria switched to daylight saving time Sunday, turning clocks one hour ahead at 3 am. At 3 am Bulgarian time on March 25, all clocks will be turned one hour forward until 4 am EET on October 28, 2012. The winter and summer daylight savings time were introduced in Bulgaria in 1979 while they were introduced for the first time ever in 1908 in Great Britain to optimize the daylight hours. ...
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Bulgaria to Switch to Daylight Saving Time
Bulgaria will switch to daylight saving time, turning clocks one hour ahead at 3 am Sunday morning. At 3 am Bulgarian time on March 25, all clocks will be turned one hour forward until 4 am Bulgarian time on October 28, 2012. So, all who are in Bulgaria on Sunday should not forget to put the hands of their clocks one hour forward. ...
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Rosatom Offers Bulgaria Yet Another Extension of Belene NPP Contract
Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom has made it clear it is ready to agree on yet another extension of the contract with the Bulgarian government for the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. The currently active extension of the 2006 deal between Bulgaria's National Electric Company NEK and Rosatom's subsidiary Atomstroyexport is set to expire at the end of March 2012 ...
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Bulgaria PM Slams Ex Energy Minister for 'Talking Rubbish'
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has accused Traicho Traikov, former Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, of setting traps for the GERB government, of deliberately obstructing projects and of "talking plain rubbish". Borisov's attack against Traikov, who was asked to resign last week over the disgrace at the business forum in Qatar, comes one day after Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister ...
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Bulgaria for Austrians - from Bogan to Boutique?
Austria is a traditional holiday destination for well-heeled Bulgarians. In Bulgaria however Austrian tourists are rare species, most often seeking a bargain and a binge. Could the Balkan country change from bogan to boutique to attract more? ...
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