ARCHIVE - 12 April 2012
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Lilyana Pavlova, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, and Valentin Zlatev, CEO of Lukoil Bulgaria, discussed Thursday the dynamics of prices of building materials derived from petroleum and the impact on road construction.
Business | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 17:40
Greek telecommunication group Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, known as OTE, is considering the sale of one of its units in Albania, Bulgaria or Romania to fund debt-servicing, Greek newspaper Naftemporiki reported.
Business | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 17:19
Bulgaria's first major highway, "Trakiya", linking Sofia to the Black Sea coast at Burgas is to be launched on July 1, 2012, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has confirmed.
Business | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 15:58
The consumer price index (CPI) in March 2012 compared to February 2012 was 100.
Bulgaria's only natural gas storage facility in Chiren will be expanded to reach its maximum capacity, announced Kiril Temelkov, head of the state-owned company Bulgartransgaz.
Valentin Nikolov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, has highlighted the importance of building reverse-flow gas grid interconnections between Bulgaria and neighbor countries for the energy security of the region.
Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH has submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the 733-km stretch Sivas-Silopi to Turkey's Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, according to a media statement of the project company.
The workers at the largest Bulgarian producer of non-ferrous metals, the Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK) in the southern city of Kardzhali, have been paid their January 2012 salaries.
The information that the Obama Administration is set to recall US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick before the end of his three-year term is untrue, according to the diplomat.
Bulgaria's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has urged the countries from the Southeast European Cooperation Process to deepen further their cooperation within NATO's "Smart Defense" program.
The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party tops the 2011 list of political parties with the largest donation revenues, according to the annual financial report of the Bulgarian Audit Office.
Ruling party GERB and the marginal conservative RZS party plan to submit a new draft decision for an ad-hoc committee probing activities of the former President and Vice President, Parvanov and Marin, after the Easter recess.
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, declares that his ruling, center-right GERB party and the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, would never rule Bulgaria together.
Posters defending Bulgarian stray dogs have surfaced in London underground stations.
Society | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 15:26
Only two out the twenty four staff of the municipal company "Ekoravnovesie" (Eco-balance) in charge of controlling stray dogs' population in Bulgaria's capital Sofia are dog catchers, according to municipal councilman Georgi Kadiev.
Two earthquakes with a 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale have been registered in Romania's region of Vrancea, some 380 km northeast of Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
Bulgaria marks on April 12th Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries.
Salaries of emergency room personnel are going up by 20%, effective June 1, 2012, according to Bulgarian Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova.
Kaiserslautern players have resigned to the fact they will be relegated from the Bundesliga and are already looking into the future, the club's recently appointed Bulgarian coach has admitted.
Sports | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 18:56
The Bulgarian Interior Ministry has denied offering official information about the brazen overnight robbery of an armored truck in which at least BGN 2 M have vanished.
Crime | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 14:00
Officers of the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) have arrested the leader of an organized crime group specialized in drug trafficking and distribution.
Crime | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 13:24
The silver and gold reliquary, a personal gift from Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, containing the relics of St John the Baptist had been returned to the town of Sozopol with one missing bone.
Crime | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 08:51
Five masked men with machine guns have robbed overnight an armored truck on the road between the town of Sevlievo and the city of Gabrovo in central Bulgaria.
Crime | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 08:04
In the Italian city of Caserta, infertile couples bought the babies of Bulgarian women who were specifically brought to Italy when they were eight months pregnant.
One Friday afternoon Peter demanded of his boss, "I must have a pay rise.
Smiles | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 17:38
Journalist: Which is the best thing that could happen to Bulgaria's energy sector?
Quotes | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 19:35
The council for Germany's Roma has gone to court to get a Swiss magazine banned in the country after it used an image of a Roma boy pointing a gun on its cover, BBC reported.
World | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 17:53
A Ukrainian court has sentenced the country's former acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko to five years in jail for abuse of office.
World | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 14:32
The ceasefire in Syria has become official and effective by the deadline of Thursday, April 12, 2012.
World | April 12, 2012, Thursday // 09:25
If you take a walk in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, you may witness the names of the two biggest local football teams, Levski and CSKA, sprayed on various walls.
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