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Bulgaria Mulls Ways to Attract More Romanian Tourists [Feb 02, 2012] A large-scale business forum is held Thursday and Friday in the central Bulgarian city and old capital Veliko Tarnovo focusing on ways to attract more Romanian tourists. The forum is attended by a number of Romanian companies from the travel sector to hear presentations on Bulgaria as a year-round tourist destination, the largest private TV channel bTV reported Thursday. The event is organized ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Top Cop: Claims of Police Brutality Are Often Fake [Jan 24, 2012] Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minster and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, believes that cases of criminals with groundless claims of police brutality are increasing in the country lately. Speaking in an interview for the largest private TV channel bTV Tuesday, the Minister warned that such claims are not "always 100% true." ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Presidential Hopeful Rejects Support of 'Spies' [Jun 22, 2011] The initiative committee for the presidential elections should not have as members people associated with the former and current security services, according to presidential candidate, Meglena Kuneva. In an interview for the TV channel bTV, Kuneva, who is Bulgaria's first and former EU Commissioner, and former member of the party of ex King and Prime Minister, Simeon Saxe-Coburg ? National ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Minister: Gray Economy Better than No Economy [May 11, 2011] In a highly controversial statement, Bulgaria's economy minister has defended, though half-heartedly, the flourishing gray sector in the country, saying that still it generates growth. "If we have to choose between grey economy and no economy, Bulgaria will defnitiely be better off to have gray economy," Minister Traicho Traikov told the morning broadcast of bTV channel. "Grey or not, these are ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's New Anti-Corruption Unit to Lack Operational Functions [Feb 17, 2011] Bulgaria's Center for Combating Corruption (BORKOR) will operate analytically, but will not have operational functions, according to Eleonora Nikolova, nominated for Deputy Chair of the unit. In an interview for the Bulgarian private TV channel bTV on Thursday, she said that BORKOR might review the signal for corruption in the Customs Agency, announced earlier by the former Deputy head Antoniy ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Top Cop Accuses President of Anti-cabinet Plot [Jan 24, 2011] Former agents of the Communist State Security (DS), including President Georgi Parvanov, and Aleksei Petrov, are behind attacks on the Bulgarian cabinet. The claim was made by Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who spoke Monday in an interview for the private TV channel bTV. Tsvetanov was adamant the discrediting taped conversations between key Bulgarian political figures, which leaked in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's PM Hands Congratulatory Letter from EU Council President to Brazil's Dilma Rousseff [Jan 02, 2011] Bulgaria?s PM Boyko Borisov has given a congratulatory letter from the EU Council President, Herman van Rompuy, to the newly inaugurated Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the Bulgarian private bTV reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's bTV Media Presents Own Radio Group [Aug 30, 2010] Bulgaria's bTV Media Group has resented its own radio that will include six already established on the Bulgarian market radio stations. Photo by novinitepro.bg [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Faces Off President in TV Clash [Jun 17, 2010] Bulgarias center-right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and one of his biggest political foes Socialist President Georgi Parvanov will be guests of the morning broadcast of the private TV channel bTV Friday morning. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Assuages Fears over Greek-Style Budget Fraud" [Jun 10, 2010] The mission currently being considered by the EU statistics office Eurostat is a regular visit and it comes as no surprise, Mariana Kotseva told the morning broadcast of the private TV channel bTV. [via YahooNews] More >>

'Bloated' Bulgaria Army Administration Set for 30% Cut (Novinite.com) [Mar 22, 2010] Bulgaria Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has stated that the administration of Bulgaria?s Army needs to be reduced by up to 30%. Angelov, speaking on bTV Monday, said that it is crucial to reduce the staff in the army?s administration which is ?unnecessarily bloated?. [via YahooNews] More >>

Ex Bulgaria PM Stanishev: I Am Learning from Borisov, Dogan (Novinite.com) [Feb 28, 2010] Bulgaria?s former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said he was learning from his successor Boyko Borisov. Stanishev spoke on the bTV channel Sunday. He pointed out he respected a lot the leader of the ethnic Turkish party DPS, Ahmed Dogan, and had learned a lot from him. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria bTV Former Owner News Corp in Middle East Move (Novinite.com) [Feb 23, 2010] News Corp, Rupert Murdoch?s global media empire and former owner of Bulgaria's bTV channel, is close to buying a stake in Rotana Media, the broadcaster and music group owned by Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Charity Concert Collects over BGN 0,8 M for Haiti Children (Novinite.com) [Feb 03, 2010] The Tuesday night charity concert ?Hope for the Children of Haiti? organized by the TV channel bTV and UNICEF Bulgaria has collected BGN 0,8 M. The amount was last reported by bTV Wednesday at noon. [via YahooNews] More >>

Husband of Bulgaria EC Hopeful Denies Withdrawal Rumors (Novinite.com) [Jan 15, 2010] The husband of Bulgaria's Commissioner-designate, Rumiana Jeleva, rejected Friday rumors that his wife is going to withdraw from her EC quest. Krasimir Jelev spoke in an interview for the Bulgarian TV channel bTV. [via YahooNews] More >>