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Bulgaria Braces for Fresh Weekend Snow [Feb 04, 2012] Nine Bulgarian regions remain under code yellow Saturday over fog and snow, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) has announced. In the regions of Vidin, Montana, Vratsa and Pleven in northwestern Bulgaria the warning is over expected snowfall and ice; in Plovdiv and Pazardzhik in southern Bulgaria ? over fog, in Blagoevgrad in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Wakes up to Fresh Snow [Feb 02, 2012] Bulgaria wakes up Thursday to freezing cold accompanied by a fresh snow cover, but without new record low temperatures. The mercury ranges between minus 19 degrees Celsius to minus 5 across the country with cloudy skies and strong winds in the regions of Montana, Varna, Vidin and Razgrad. Snow is falling in the regions of Montana, Pazardzhik, Dobrich, Haskovo, Sofia, Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad, Burgas ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Choking as Air Dust Hits New Highs [Jan 03, 2012] Bulgaria's executive environmental agency raised an alert on Tuesday over the high concentration of dust particles in the air in fourteen towns and cities across the country since the beginning of the year. The first days of 2012 exceeded the norm in levels of harmful particles in the regions of Blagoevgrad, Varna, Vidin, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Dobrich, Kardzhali, Nessebar, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Tests High-Speed Railway Section to Turkish Border [Dec 22, 2011] Bulgaria's government has made a test run of a newly renovated southern highway railway section where trains can go at 160 km/h. The testing of a section of the Plovdiv-Svilengrad railway line, which runs from the center of Southern Bulgaria to the border with Turkey, was attended by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Civil Defense to Test Siren System in 10 Cities [Dec 14, 2011] Bulgaria's emergency siren system will be tested at 1:00 pm on Wednesday in ten Bulgarian cities, the interior ministry announced. The cities are Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Kardzhali, Monatana, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Ruse and Smolyan. The test is carried out according the Order for Early Warnings and Announcement of Disasters.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria?s Civil Defense to Test Siren System in 10 Cities [Dec 12, 2011] Bulgaria's emergency siren system will be tested at 1:00 pm on Wednesday in 10 Bulgarian cities, the Interior Ministry informs. The cities are Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Kardzhali, Monatana, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Ruse and Smolyan. The test is carried out according the Order for Early Warnings and Announcement of Disasters.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Moves to Destroy Palaces of Notorious Roma 'Tsar' [Nov 10, 2011] The Regional Directorate for Construction Control in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv has issued an order for the demolishment of 9 illegal luxurious buildings owned by controversial Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov. A decision is yet to be reached concerning two of the Roma clan's properties, one of which is the house inhabited by Rahkov and his wife, the Bulgarian National Radio has ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's PM Baffled by Road Junction-cum-Dolphinarium Project [Oct 28, 2011] Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov expressed his surprise that the construction of a dolphinarium had been by the previous government in the project for the Skobeleva Mayka road junction in the country's second largest city of Plovdiv. "I knew that Maritsa is the largest river, but I was unaware that there were dolphins swimming in it. We could very well promise that there will be dolphins ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ruling Party Denies Affiliation with Notorious Roma 'Tsar' [Sep 25, 2011] Notorious Roma boss Kiril Rashkov, aka "Tsar Kiro", is not a member of the ruling center-right party GERB, the party announced seeking to refute media reports. Rashkov, the head of a extremely rich Roma clan based in the village of Katunitsa near Bulgaria's Plovdiv, attracted public attention as a result of a row with local ethnic Bulgarians, which resulted in ethnic clashes, after late Friday a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Celebrates National Unification Day [Sep 06, 2011] Bulgaria is celebrating Tuesday, September 6, 2011, the 126th anniversary since the unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. The national celebration is traditionally hosted by the southern city of Plovdiv, which is where much of the Unification activities took place in 1885 but the holiday is marked with events all across the country. . ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Puts 2 More Military Plant Stakes on Privatization Table [Aug 10, 2011] Bulgaria's Privatization Agency has announced a tender for the sale of two state-owned minority stakes in two of the country's military repair plants from the TEREM group. Thus, the Agency for Privatization and Post-Privatization Control will offer investors 34% of the "Terem-Georgi Benkovski" plant in Plovdiv and 28% of "Terem-Gen. Vladimir Zaimov" located in Bozhurishte near Sofia. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Plovdiv Boasts Increase of Tourist Visits [Jul 11, 2011] The number of Bulgarian and foreign tourists, who have visited Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv, has increased significantly. The data comes from the Tourist Informational Center in downtown Plovdiv, cited by the local daily "Maritsa." ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ruling Party Nominates District Governor for Plovdiv Mayor [Jun 23, 2011] Bulgaria's ruling center-right party GERB has nominated Ivan Totev, the current District Governor of Plovdiv, as their candidate for mayor of the largest city in Southern Bulgaria. Totev's nomination has been declared by Prime Minister and GERB leader Boyko Borisov, who was on a visit to Plovdiv Wednesday night. "We have high hopes for Totev because we want things in Plovdiv to develop," Borisov ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Plovdiv, Greece's Kavala Mull Air Connection [Jun 06, 2011] Greek investors are considering launching a direct air line between the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv and the Greek town of Kavala on the Aegean Sea coast. The idea for the Plovdiv-Kavala line has been discussed for several months and was confirmed over the weekend during an aviation show in Kavala, the Maritsa newspaper reported. By setting up a direct air line, Greek businesspeople are said to be ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Oldest Cosmetics Producer Offered on Sale for BGN 10 M [Mar 16, 2011] Bulgaria's oldest and largest cosmetics producer "Alen Mak" is on sale for about BGN 8-10 M, according to one of its creditors. The Plovdiv-based Alen Mak ("Scarlet Poppy") factory, in financial trouble for some years, is one of the iconic brands of Bulgaria's communist period. It was the last state-owned cosmetics factory to be privatized ? in 2002 it was sold for USD 5.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Braces for Hurricane-Like Winds, Danube Vessels Alerted [Feb 12, 2011] The Bulgarian authorities have declared a Code "Yellow" alert all across the northern and southeastern parts of the country over hurricane-like winds. The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced that Code "Yellow", the third highest level of alert, is for the districts of Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Lovech, Plovdiv, Gabrovo, Veliko ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ex EU Commissioner Shy over Presidency Bid [Feb 08, 2011] Bulgaria's former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has played down rumors that she might run for President of the country in the October 2011 elections. Kuneva, who was Bulgaria's first ever EU Commissioner, in charge of consumer protection at the EC in 2007-2009, has often been mentioned in Bulgarian media as a primary bidder for the Bulgarian Presidency. Speaking in Plovdiv of Tuesday, however ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Plovdiv Gets Ahead of Sofia in Capping Cab Fares [Jan 04, 2011] On Tuesday, local taxi companies in Plovdiv and the head of the municipal company in charge of traffic control Nikola Yanakiev agreed that the City Council must introduce maximum cab prices as soon as this is allowed with the entering into force of the amended Car Transport Act. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Plovdiv to Launch EU Capital of Culture Bid [Dec 29, 2010] The Bulgarian Plovdiv will run for a European Capital of Culture in 2019, the city's Mayor, Slavcho Atanasov, has announced. Thus, the country's second largest city will become Bulgaria's fifth candidate for the prestigious title. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Largest Thermal Power Plant Investigated [Dec 06, 2010] The second biggest energy company in Bulgaria, the Maritsa East 2 Thermal Power Plant, is under investigation for law violations, according to Plovdiv's Regional Prosecutor's Office. [via YahooNews] More >>