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Bulgaria Signs South Stream Road Map [Jul 18, 2010] VARNA, Bulgaria Russia and Bulgaria signed a road map agreement Saturday to speed up the building of the Gazprom -led South Stream gas pipeline on Bulgarian territory. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Russia Agree Timetable for South Stream Gas Pipe, Interfax Says [Jul 17, 2010] Russia and Bulgaria today agreed on the OAO Gazprom -led South Stream pipeline project and lower gas prices for Bulgaria, Interfax reported today. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Volleyball Team Out of World League after Loss from Brazil [Jul 10, 2010] Bulgaria's national volleyball team has lost its last match in the qualifications for the World League Final. ... By August 10, the Bulgarian state company "Bulgargaz" will receive an offer from the Russian "Gazprom" for the price parameters of the new contracts for gas supply after 2011.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Agrees to Host South Stream [Jul 06, 2010] Bulgaria ended a yearlong timeout Tuesday and agreed to move forward on hosting a stretch of the Gazprom -backed South Stream pipeline, a deal Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said would be two or three times more profitable for his country than first estimated. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Agrees to Host South Stream [Jul 06, 2010] Bulgaria ended a yearlong timeout Tuesday and agreed to move forward on hosting a stretch of the Gazprom -backed South Stream pipeline, a deal Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said would be two or three times more profitable for his country than first estimated. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Socialists Smell Repression in Gas Debate [Jul 02, 2010] Bulgaria's former energy minister has slammed as "political repression" the prime minister's plan to submit to prosecutors the contracts that his Socialist predecessor signed with energy giant Gazprom for the supplies of Russian natural gas. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Energy Minister Slams Predecessor for Giving In to Gazprom [Jul 01, 2010] Bulgarias Economy and Energy Minister Traikov has blamed his predecessor Rumen Ovcharov who succumbing to pressure from Gazprom to renegotiate the Russian natural gas supplies for the country in 2006. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom Executives Slam Bulgaria before Watching AC/DC Gig [May 14, 2010] Senior Gazprom executives criticized Bulgaria in a press briefing in Sofia on Friday over delays in the realization of the South Stream gas transit pipeline project. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom Executives Slam Bulgaria before Watching AC/DC Gig [May 14, 2010] Sergei Kupriyanov, Gazprom spokesperson, said there was an administrative delay in the realization of South Stream in Bulgaria. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom???s South Stream: Romania in, Bulgaria out? (Novinite.com) [Feb 19, 2010] Bucharest has given Russian gas monopoly Gazprom all the documentation relevant for building the South Stream pipeline through Romanian territory, it was announced yesterday (18 February). The move appears to give flesh to a recent Russian threat to eliminate Bulgaria from the project. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom CEO holds gas talks with Bulgaria (AP via Yahoo! Finance) [Feb 16, 2010] Bulgaria's energy minister said Tuesday his country has asked the Russian company Gazprom to remove intermediaries in gas supplies and to pay higher fees to Bulgaria for transiting gas to other Balkan countries. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom, Bulgaria to sign deal to clear way for South Stream (Russian Information Agency Novosti) [Feb 16, 2010] Gazprom and Bulgaria are set to sign an agreement on a joint venture that will clear the way for the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline across the southeast European state, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Meets Russian Gazprom Head over South Stream (Novinite.com) [Feb 16, 2010] Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has held a personal meeting with Gazprom CEO, Alexei Miller, to discuss the South Stream natural gas pipeline project. The press department of the Council of Ministers reported that reported that Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov also attended the meeting. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom head, Bulgaria officials discuss South Stream project (Itar-Tass) [Feb 16, 2010] MOSCOW, February 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller discussed in Bulgaria on Tuesday the implementation of the pre-investment stage of the South Stream gas pipeline project. [via YahooNews] More >>

Russia's Gazprom Wants to Enter Bulgaria Electricity Market (Novinite.com) [Feb 11, 2010] UK-registered Russian company Gazprom Marketing & Trading has requested a five-year license for trading with electricity in Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>