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Bulgaria's Top Diplomat Becomes Proud Father of 1st Child [Feb 13, 2012] Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, has become the proud father of a baby girl, named Sara. Sara was born overnight Sunday into Monday in the First Obstetrician Hospital in the capital Sofia, the largest private TV channel bTV reports Monday. This is Mladenov's first child.... [via YahooNews] More >>

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 Finance Ministry to Scrap Methane Excise Hike [Oct 17, 2011] Bulgaria's Finance Ministry is mulling giving up on plans to introduce excise on methane from January 1, 2011, which is expected to up heating prices as well. The information was reported by the largest private TV channel bTV, citing Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov. The plans were for the methane price to go up on January 1 over the introduction of the excise duty.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ruling Party to Name Presidential Runner June-July [Mar 03, 2011] Bulgaria's ruling center-right party GERB will announce its candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in June-July, confident of its success, the prime minister said on Thursday. "The name of the presidential runner will be publicly announced in June-July," Boyko Borisov said on Thursday in an interview for private TV channel TV7. "Our government insured democracy in the country as ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Top Diplomat: GERB Did Not Sell Weapons to Libya [Mar 02, 2011] Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, says he never obtained information the cabinet of his ruling, center-right GERB party had sold ammunitions to Libya in 2009. Mladenov made the statement Wednesday morning in a phone interview for the private TV channel bTV. The Minister spoke in the aftermath of a publication of the British Guardian focusing on weapons deals between Libya ... [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 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 >>