To pay or not to pay Gazprom, that’s the $7 billion question
With Russia sticking Ukraine with a $7 billion bill for not purchasing enough of its above market-priced natural gas last
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Month: January 2013
Facts about Russian Gazprom’s $7 billion bill to Ukraine’s Naftogaz
Just hours before Ukraine signed a $10 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Jan. 24 to extract shale gas
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US senate confirms John Kerry as secretary of state
The U.S. Senate has voted 94 to 3 to confirm one of its own, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, as secretary
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European partners appreciate Bulgaria’s fiscal discipline, Borissov tells AmCham
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, addressing a January 29 2013 American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria lunch audience, praised the performance
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Sofia City Court orders Dogan’s attacker to remain in custody
In a ruling on January 29 2013, Sofia City Court ordered Oktai Enimehmedov, the 25-year-old seen pointing a gas pistol
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Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum question heads for Parliament after voter turnout exceeds threshold – just
Voter turnout in Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum has scraped past the 20 per cent threshold for the question in
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Bulgaria high court rejects asset forfeiture suit against runaway ‘Galevi brothers’
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) ruled to return to prosecutors the suit to seize the assets of the “Galevi
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Bulgarian drug gang leader wounded in central Sofia shooting
Zlatomir Ivanov, who was sentenced to eight years in jail for organising a crime group to distribute drugs, was shot
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Europe does not know enough about what Bulgaria did to save Jews from Holocaust death camps, President Plevneliev says in Paris
Europe does not know what Bulgaria did to save Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust death camps, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said
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