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Bulgarian Energy Holding’s board of directors signed on August 27 a contract US nuclear consultancy firm Westinghouse to carry out the feasibility study for the construction of a seventh unit […]
Relatives of the five Israeli citizens who died in a suicide bomb attack by an as-yet unidentified terrorist in Bourgas on July 18 are to visit Bulgar ...
A strange saga in the past few days has re-exposed rifts inBulgaria’s opposition socialist party – and exposed the fact that some of the country ...
Foreign tourists in Bulgaria’s popular Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach are imbibing alcohol at astonishingly cheap prices – or prices that are not ...
Firefighters in Bulgaria continued their struggle against the blaze in the Beli Bor area of the Rila Mountain on August 27 2012. The Rila Mountain fire has continued for four […]
Bulgarian authorities have begun investigating misleading advertisements by driving schools that offer fees of 200 to 300 leva (about 100 to 150 euro) and then hit learner drivers for sums […]
Bulgarian media reports have identified career diplomat Marco Conticelli as the new Italian ambassador in Sofia, succeeding Stefano Benazzo. Conticelli (51) graduated from the University of Florence in 1985 and […]
Hoteliers in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach say that shortcomings in legislation on the tourism industry expose them to unfounded and costly claims from foreign tourists. There have […]
Strolling the tourist area alleyways of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal resort of Golden Sands in August 2012, any passerby with an attuned ear would hear holidaymakers speaking Russian, German, Romanian […]
Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a number of interesting finds from various periods and the city […]
