Recriminations fly in case of Bulgarian sailors arrested in Spain
Relatives of the sailors from the crew of a Bulgarian ship seized by Spanish authorities with a cargo of three
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Month: August 2012
Foreign tourists not affected by Bulgarian tour operator bankruptcy – official
Bulgarian tourism officials said on August 23 that the brewing crisis involving about 1000 foreign tourists who had bought holiday
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Bulgarian border police detain 10 Syrians attempting illegal border crossing from Turkey
Bulgarian border police arrested 10 Syrians and a Turkish citizen accompanying them after the group was spotted attempting an illegal
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Bulgaria’s new Rila blaze amid fires sweeping South Eastern Europe
A fire that broke out at 1400m in Bulgaria’s Rila mountain on August 23 – the second such blaze at
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Construction of first phase of Skopje – Sofia rail link ‘to begin in 2013’
Macedonia’s government, having been given 46.4 million euro financing by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, plans to start
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Bulgaria to open further 17km of Trakiya motorway linking Sofia and Bourgas
A further 17 kilometres of the Trakiya Motorway, from Yambol to Petolachkata near the town of Sliven, will open this
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Soaring fuel prices prompt Bulgarian bus transport companies to mull price increases
Transport companies in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv region are considering a further increase in long-distance bus ticket prices because of the country’s
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Bulgaria’s taxi fares to increase, association says
Taxi fares will increase by about 20 stotinki (about 10 euro cents) a kilometre after not having been hiked for
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Russia becomes 156th member of WTO
Russia became the 156th member of the World Trade Organization on Wednesday, following nearly two decades of negotiations. Russia was
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