World | January 3, 2002, Thursday
Federal judge entered an innocent plea Wednesday for the first person - Zacarias Moussaoui, 33, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent - indicted in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks....
The Security Council with the United Nations will decide on January 3 whether Bulgaria will chair the United Nations Sanctions against Libya Committee in 2002, the spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry Elena Poptodorova announced. She reiterated that she ex...
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which is a coalition partner of the ruling Simeon II National Movement, will have three experts in the presidential team of President–elect Georgi Parvanov, MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms said, quoted b...
Sports | January 3, 2002, Thursday
Former national football coach Dimitur Penev may be appointed coach of the Macedonian national football team, newspapers in Macedonia wrote. "I had talks with Macedonian Football Union and its President Vancho Takovski two months ago....
Liabilities of Pamporovo ski resort privatized hotels amount to more than USD 100 000, representatives of Pamporovo joint-stock company announced. The money has been spent on maintaining the infrastructure in the resort....
The sons of MP from the Simeon II National Movement Dimcho Dimchev beat brutally a fireman in the Dimitrovgrad-based discotheque "Baccarat" on January 1. At dawn, Sergeant Andrei Nestorov who worked as a driver at the fire brigade, came in....
On January 1, the soldier Deyan Deyanov shot himself dead in the military base of village Kapitan Dimitrievo in the Pazardzhik region. Investigation is being conducted....
The problems in the Balkans can be solved only through integration into the European Union, Erhard Busek, Stability Pact Special Coordinator for South-eastern Europe said, cited by France Press. According to him minorities and border conflicts can be sett...
World | January 2, 2002, Wednesday
Firefighters in Sydney are concentrating efforts late Wednesday on stopping blazes entering the Lane Cove National Park in the city's inner north west as gusty winds and high temperatures push fires ever closer to the city center....
World | January 2, 2002, Wednesday
Zambian ruling party candidate Levy Mwanawasa has been sworn in as the country's president despite a court challenge to his election. Ten opposition parties had wanted the swearing-in ceremony to be put off, saying the December 27 election had been affect...
Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy has received an official permission for starting operations in the complex for recycling and storing of radioactive waste. The move comes in accordance with Sample Protocol N 16, which confirmed the already built complex is fi...
President Stoyanov decreed the promulgation of the Personal Data Act and the Amendments and Supplements Act to the Code for the Obligatory Public Insurance in the State Gazette. The Acts were adopted by Parliament on December 21, 2001....
World | January 2, 2002, Wednesday
The first contingent of French troops have joined the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. The group of 15 soldiers arrived on Wednesday at Bagram Air Base and will join the British peacekeepers, who have been in Afghanistan since mid-Decemb...
Sofia Airport authorities announced that Emil Grigorov – director of “Fuel-Oil Materials” Department with the airport was discharged. His deputy Ivan Todorov was warned for his negligence and bad planning because of which the inventories of anti-ice liqui...
Abstracted from the Washington Times
Anders Aslund, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, has no illusions about economic reform in the former Soviet bloc countries....