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If you don’t know where the historic fishing town of Tutrakan is, you are far from alone. Visits were discouraged during communism, for fear of someone escaping up or downstream, […]
Bulgarian state railways BDZ will put 30 new sleeping cars into service by the end of 2012. The sleeping cars have been produced by Turkish company Tuvasash following the signing […]
A return trip from Sofia to the Black Sea coast in a car fuelled by diesel now costs about 190 leva (about 95 euro) after prices of diesel and petrol […]
Firefighters have been called out to extinguish 252 fires in the past 24 hours, the latest being a large fire near a residential area of the town of Chernomorets on […]
In celebration of Belgium’s national day, ambassador to Bulgaria Marc Michielsen and Marie-Chantal Micheilsen-Biela hosted a reception at the Belgian Residence on July 19. The occasion was also for the […]
Bulgarian services prevented a terrorist attack a few months ago, Israeli minister of tourism Stas Misezhnikov said on July 23 during a visit to Bulgaria. He said that he had […]
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defence has rejected media reports from Bosnia that Bulgarian military personnel were involved in a brawl in Sarajevo between Bulgarian and Bosnian football fans. The incident took […]
The July 18 terrorist suicide bomber attack on Israeli tourists at Bourgas Airport has not resulted in foreign tour groups cancelling reservations for holidays in Bulgaria, the country’s Economy, Energy […]
Staff of Bulgaria’s Customs Agency were to hold a protest on July 23 against a plan to move the agency’s headquarters from capital city Sofia to Rousse on the Danube, […]
Israeli tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov was scheduled to visit Bulgaria on July 23 2012 at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Delyan Dobrev, to meet President Rossen Plevneliev, Prime Minister […]
