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Bulgaria's Ruse Receives First Austria-Turkey Container Block Train [Apr 09, 2012] The freight train station at the Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse has received its first ever container block train, also known as a unit train, which will be transporting goods from Austria to Turkey. The container block trains, also known as unit trains, are still a new means of freight transportation in Bulgaria, with the first ever such train for the country having been received only in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Axes Danube Agency Chief amidst Record Low River Level [Dec 12, 2011] Bulgaria's Transport Ministry has fired Georgi Georgiev, head of the Bulgarian Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River based in the Danube city of Ruse. The news comes amidst record just as record low level of the Lower Danube, i.e.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Start Building Long-Awaited Section of Danube-Aegean Road [Aug 30, 2011] Bulgaria's government will launch September 1, 2011, the long-anticipated construction of a key section of the road from the Danube city of Ruse on the Romanian border to the Makaza Pass on the Greece border. The section in question is the road between the southern Bulgarian city of Kardzhali in the Eastern Rhodope Mountain, and the village of Podkova, which is located just 15 km north of the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Sofia Turns Romania-Bulgaria-Greece Dream Road into Priority Project [Aug 24, 2011] Bulgaria's Cabinet has declared the road from the Danube city of Ruse on the Romanian border to the Makaza Pass on the Greece border to be a project "of national importance" in a long-awaited move. The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic states, Moscow, Kiev, and ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Vidin Medieval Fortress in Dire Need of Restoration [Jul 02, 2011] The medieval fortress in Bulgaria's Danube city of Vidin, also known as "Baba Vida", a top tourist spot, is in a dire need of reconstruction, according to its management. The fortress was the capital of the Vidin Principality, and its ruler, Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, in the 14th century, and essentially the last Bulgarian capital to have been conquered by the Ottoman Turkish Empire ? in 1396 AD ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Boost Joint Policing of Bulgarian Black Sea Resorts, Danube [Mar 11, 2011] For a second summer in a row the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts will be patrolled jointly by Bulgarian and Romanian police officers, the Interior Ministries of the two states agreed. The agreement was sealed in the Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse Thursday between Bulgaria's Deputy Interior Minister Dimitar Georgiev and his Romanian colleague Marian Tutilesku ? state secretary of the Romanian Interior ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Offer Plovdiv Air Cargo Terminal, Ruse Airport on Concession [Mar 01, 2011] Bulgaria's Cabinet is going to start procedures for finding private operators of the cargo terminal of the southern Plovdiv Airport, and of the civilian airport Shtraklevo near the Danube city of Ruse. The concession procedures for the two airports are on the agenda of the Cabinet's meeting on Wednesday. While there was investor interest in the cargo terminal of the airport in the southern city ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Vow to Stay Together on Way to Schengen [Feb 16, 2011] The foreign policy committees of the parliaments of Bulgaria and Romania issued on Wednesday a joint declaration on the readiness of the two Balkan countries to join the borderless Schengen Area. The Foreign Policy and Defense Committee of the Bulgarian Parliament and the Foreign Policy Committee of the Romanian legislature held a joint sitting in the Bulgarian Danube city of Russe. The joint ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Declare Joint Will for Schengen Entry [Feb 16, 2011] The Foreign Policy Parliamentary Committees of Bulgaria and Romania are holding a joint meeting Wednesday to adopt a declaration for the readiness and the political will of the two countries to join the Schengen zone. The meeting takes place in the Danube city of Ruse. The document will focus on the desire of Bulgaria and Romania to enter the zone together, and not be separated. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Set to Issue Joint Position on Schengen [Feb 15, 2011] The foreign policy committees of the parliaments of Bulgaria and Romania are going to issue a joint declaration on the readiness of the two Balkan countries to join the borderless Schengen Area. The Foreign Policy and Defense Committee of the Bulgarian Parliament and the Foreign Policy Committee of the Romanian legislature will hold a joint sitting in the Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse on ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria 'Most Corrupt' Judge Faces Disciplinary Action [Jun 05, 2010] The Ethics Commission at the Regional Court in the Danube City of Ruse began disciplinary actions against judge Petar Balkov. On Friday, a video clip released on the Internet, showing the Ruse district judge drunk in a night club, spurred a public scandal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's 'Most Corruptible Judge' Caught on Video [Jun 05, 2010] A video clip released on the Internet showing Petar Balkov, district judge from Bulgarias Ruse, drunk in a night club has spurred a public scandal. The 2-minute video in question (available HERE ) was shot in a toilet in the Moulin Rouge club in the Danube city of Ruse where the judge celebrated April 16, lawyers day in Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Silistra Bans Bird Markets over Avian Flu Alert [Apr 02, 2010] The egional veterinary office in Bulgaria s Danube city of Silistra has banned all bird exhibits and open markets over the threat of avian flu. On Thursday, a dead river gull has been found in a yard in Silistra and sent to the Lab at the National Veterinary Institute in Sofia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Silistra Bans Bird Markets over Avian Flu Alert [Apr 02, 2010] All open bird markets are banned in Bulgaria s Danube city of Silistra over avian flu alert. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Light Quake Shakes Antonovo in North Bulgaria (Novinite.com) [Mar 16, 2010] A 2,8 magnitude earthquake was registered Tuesday morning in North Central Bulgaria with its epicenter South of the Danube city of Ruse. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported that the quake shook the area at 07:25 Tuesday morning. [via YahooNews] More >>