A Moscow court has sentenced a former police officer to 11 years in prison on Friday for his role in the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Bulgaria's largest PR аgency M3 Communications Group, Inc., has been recognized as the strongest PR brand on the Bulgarian market, according survey of the local consumer segment by Superbrands, the world's largest independent arbiter of brands.
The management of Bulgaria's only operational nuclear power plant Kozloduy has formally filed a request with the Sofia-based Nuclear Regulation Agency for a permit for the construction of what will become its 7th unit.
Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant, Kozloduy, is among the world's best, Bulgarian nuclear expert Sergey Tsochev has declared.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has sent a congratulatory address to Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who is of Bulgarian origin, on the occasion of her birthday.
Estonia and Bulgaria were the first countries to ratify a trade agreement reached between the Philippines and the European Union.
Bulgaria's ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, is halting all debates on the embattled Election Code and will resume them only after an apology from the opposition.
The Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, dismissed Friday all present MPs due to lack of quorum.
Some 81% of adult Bulgarians oppose the legalization of soft drugs, including marijuana, according to a survey conducted by the National Center for Study of Public Opinion.
Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council, VSS, remains deadlocked on the way it will vote in the election of the country's new Chief Prosecutor.
The central heating system of the Bulgarian city of Pernik has turned out to have been badly damaged by the May 20, 2012, earthquake that shook Western Bulgaria.
A severe cold spell continues to affect in Bulgaria, with two lives claimed by the freezing weather in the country.
Code orange over extremely low temperatures has been declared in the western Kyustendil and Pernik regions, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) announced Friday morning.
Only the starting salaries of junior, senior and supervising teachers will be increased by 12% in 2013, Bulgarian Education Minister, Sergey Ignatov, has announced.
Bulgarian Health Minister Desislava Atanasova has criticized managers of bars, restaurants and other establishment s over the planned boycott of the full smoking ban in enclosed public spaces.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has expressed his hope that the Parliament will resist the temptation to lift the full smoking ban in enclosed public spaces.
An anonymous bomb threat has been received Friday for the facility of the Sofia sports club CSKA.
Nine of the twelve arrested football players from two teams in the Black Sea city of Burgas remain behind bars.
The Regional Court in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv ruled to leave behind bars 24 of the 26 people arrested in special police operation "Shock 2.
The series of anonymous bomb threats targeting shopping center buildings in Bulgaria's Sofia continued on Friday, with the Serdika Center Mall being the latest victim.
US Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Bob Casey (D-PA), and James Risch (R-ID) have coauthored a resolution, urging the European Union to sanction Lebanese Hezbollah both for terrorism and for its direct and material support to Bashar al Assad in his war a
Bulgarian pilot, Yanko Stoimenov, who was sentenced to 123 years of jail time by a Greek Court, is expecting to hear on December 19 the decision of the appellate magistrates.
At least 27 people, including 18 children, have been killed in a shooting in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has signed the order for the deployment of two Patriot missile batteries and 400 US troops on the border between Syria and Turkey.
Russia's foreign ministry has insisted that the country has not changed its position on Syria and "never will".
Two strong earthquakes have struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California and Mexico, according to the US Geological Survey.
US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for Secretary of State.
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has signed the order to send two US Patriot missile batteries to Turkey.
The late Turkish President Turgut Ozal has not died from poisoning, but the exact cause of death cannot be determined.
An op-ed by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov for the Trud Daily, published Friday, December 14, 2012, reprinted by Novinite.
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