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PM Borisov: Putin Will Learn Bulgaria's Position on Belene NPP Monday [Mar 25, 2012] Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov will have a phone call Monday with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to finalize the fate of long-delayed joint energy project Belene NPP. This was revealed by Borisov during an interview with Bulgarian TV channel TV7 Sunday. The Bulgarian PM said that he is set to talk with Putin at 10.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Mystery Car Arsons Spread ?utside Capital Sofia [Dec 14, 2011] A few cars were torched across Bulgaria Tuesday night after more than 40 vehicles turned into ashes in various areas of the capital Sofia over the last two weeks. One of the arsons took place in the coastal city of Burgas, the state TV channel reported without providing further details. The news comes just a day after local police announced they detained a person in relation to the string of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Media Near Monopoly Expands - Report [Nov 18, 2011] Media mogul Irena Krasteva and her son Delyan Peevski, who have been criticized for concentrating Bulgaria's media market in their hands and fawning to those in power, have acquired one more TV channel and four radio stations, reports say. The popular music channel The Voice and four radio stations changed their owners on November 10. All the five media outlets, which include radios Magic, The ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria FinMin:I Bet My Career on Budget 2012, Further Cuts Likely [Nov 11, 2011] Bulgaria's finance minister has fiercely defended the austerity draft budget for 2012, saying that its failure would spell the end of his term in the government. "I bet my career as a minister on this budget," Simeon Djankov told the morning broadcast of Nova TV channel on Friday. "If the government steps back from its demands for a later retirement in the interior and defense ministries and a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

'Bulgaria On Air' TV & Radio Officially Launched [Sep 09, 2011] "Bulgaria On Air", a new TV and radio station with a business focus, started broadcasting for the first time Friday morning. Bulgaria On Air TV is replacing MSAT, a long-standing cable TV formerly based in Varna whose headquarters was transferred to Sofia 6 years ago. The new TV channel will feature regular half-hour news blocks as well as talk shows focusing on business and politics, while the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Can't Be Isolated from New Wave of Economic Downturn - Minister [Aug 25, 2011] Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traicho Traikov has said that the country will not emerge unscathed from the economic downturn. "Bulgaria is not an island, but a ship, which depends on sea conditions for sailing. Therefore the country will be affected, if a new wave of economic deterioration strikes", Traikov said in a Thursday interview for state-owned TV channel BNT. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Opens Bids for Struma Highway Lot 4 [Aug 19, 2011] Bulgaria's Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Rosen Plevneliev, is attending Friday the opening of the public tender bids for Lot 4 of the Struma Highway. The news was reported by the TV channel bTV. Lot 4 runs between the southern town of Sandanski and Kulata on the Greek border and is 15 km-long.... [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 >>

PM Borisov: Ex King Would Be Best President of Bulgaria [Jun 12, 2011] Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, declared Sunday he had already found the person to run as GERB candidate in the upcoming presidential elections. Borisov spoke in an interview for the TV channel Nova Televizia, saying the nomination of his ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party is very strong and would receive large support. The PM further stated ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's PM: GERB Has No Need to Have President in Office [Jun 09, 2011] Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, surprisingly announced that his ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party does not need the presidential office. Borisov spoke Thursday, in an interview for the TV channel Nova Televizia, reiterating his statement from the day before he would not run for President at the upcoming fall elections and will serve his ... [via YahooNews] More >>

US Ambassador: America Has Trust in Bulgaria [May 02, 2011] The US has trust in Bulgaria and it shows it by being the number one investor in the country, American Ambassador to Sofia, James Warlick, reaffirms. Warlick spoke Monday morning in an interview for the TV channel TV7, saying America strives to avoid applying double standards towards other countries. The diplomat further declared he does not interfere in Bulgaria's internal affairs, as he has ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Expects Goran Bregovic in June [Apr 28, 2011] Goran Bregovic, the world renown composer, will perform in the Bulgarian capital Sofia June 4 2011, when he is invited for the year's Balkan Music Awards. He will be accompanied by his Weddings and Funeral Orchestra. Besides performing, Bregovic will receive a prize for his contribution to the development of the Balkan music, provided by the Balkanika TV channel. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ex Right-Wing FM Ready to Run for President [Apr 15, 2011] Bulgaria's former foreign minister and current member of the European Parliament, Nadezhda Neynski, formerly Mihaylova, has confirmed plans to join the race for president in the autumn. "I believe I am fit to run for the presidential office, which is the reason why I have agreed that my party debates my nomination," Neynski told the morning broadcast of Nova TV channel on Friday. "It does not ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria FinMin: Yes to Tapping into Reserve, No to VAT Hike [May 31, 2010] Speaking to the private Nova TV channel on Sunday, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov declined to name those, who persisted in their demands for a rise in the VAT tax, but hinted Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was one of them. [via YahooNews] More >>

MTG Launches New Sports TV Channel in Bulgaria [Apr 29, 2010] Modern Times Group MTG announced that it will launch a new localised premium sports pay-TV channel in Bulgaria on 30 April. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Devin CEO Named Business Personality of 2009 [Apr 22, 2010] Tsvetan Lazhanski is chief executive director of Devin and holds a 2.3% stake in the company. Photo by personal archive Tsvetan Lazhanski, executive director of Bulgaria's top water bottling company Devin, has been elected business personality of the year 2009 in a poll, organized by business weekly Capital and Nova TV channel. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Devin CEO Named Business Personality of 2009 [Apr 22, 2010] Tsvetan Lazhanski, executive director of Bulgaria's top water bottling company Devin, has been elected business personality of the year 2009 in a poll, organized by business weekly Capital and Nova TV channel. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Says Power Utilities Sale Revision Not Priority [Apr 09, 2010] The prime minister has every reason to be angry for what has been going on in Bulgaria 's energy sector for the last twenty years, I am angry too, Minister Traicho Traikov told the morning broadcast of Nova TV channel on Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria National Radio New Head Elected in May (Novinite.com) [Mar 17, 2010] Bulgaria media watchdog adopted at its meeting on Wednesday procedures for the selection of new directors of the state-owned national radio BNR and TV channel BNT. [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 >>