Bulgaria suffers political corruption. Justice Minister Anton Stankov said that speaking before the experts attending the international workshop on counteraction of bribery that started in Sofia.
Bulgaria will increase defence spending if invited to join NATO. The means for meeting NATO criteria are envisaged in the 2003 budget.
"The Chechens did not start on purpose to kill the hostages," Vesselin Nedkov, one of the Bulgarians who were taken hostage in the Moscow siege said for novinite.com.
Business relations within the EU will be discussed during Bulgarian-Spanish economic forum. The event that will take place October 29 at Hilton Sofia will be inaugurated by Deputy Economy Minister Nikola Yankov and H.
A package of legislative measures will be adopted as of January 2004 for the introduction of probation in Bulgaria, officials from the Justice Ministry said. Probation is a set of restraining measures for control and influence, excluding imprisonment, whi
It is good Bulgaria and Romania were discussed at Brussels at all. The worse scenario was for the European union to focus exclusively on the ten candidates from the first wave.
Road maintenance services will start to recover the stolen or damaged road signs throughout the country, initially restoring 25,000 of them. Over 80,000 road signs have been stolen and sold to recycling metal mills till 1999.
Over the next five years, Bulgaria will need USD 2 B to USD 3.4 B for electricity supply, USD 1 B to USD 1.
A mass in honor of the victims of the terror act in Moscow will be served today in "St. Alexander Nevski" cathedral in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Security Service is able to manage crises such as the hostage drama in Moscow. Velizar Shalamanov, former deputy defense minister said that commenting on Bulgaria's readiness to fight back terrorism.
"We go to Copenhagen to protect Bulgaria's interests," Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg said upon leaving for the summit of the EU applicant sates in Denmark's capital. "We will consult the opinion of the other applicants and hear what our host has to say.
The two Bulgarians Vesselin Nedkov and Yuri Gabrov who were among the hostages in the Moscow theater are feeling well, the spokesman of the foreign ministry confirmed for novinite.com.
The natural gas transit of the state-owned fuel supplier Bulgargaz for the first nine months of 2002 has risen to B 9.9 cu m compared with B 8.
Turkish company Menderes will inject additional EUR 4 M in its Svilengrad-based garment factory. The move comes after the investor spent EUR 2 M on a new facility just five months ago.
Court may request that the administrators of Balkan Airlines draw up a new recovery plan for the company at the October 29 general meeting of creditors that is expected to decide the fate of the flag carrier.
President Vladimir Putin leads Russians in a day of mourning today. Questions continue to mount as more than one hundred hostages were killed by mystery gas used to knock out Chechen guerrillas holding them in a Moscow theater.
A delegation of the European Parliament joined by Bulgarian MPs will visit the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. The move comes on the eve of the fifteenth meeting the Joint Parliamentary Committee Bulgaria -EU that will take place October 29-30.
Russia has so far declined to give any details about the gas, maintaining that none of the hostages was killed as a result of its usage. Almost all the 117 hostages who were killed when Russian troops stormed a Moscow theatre on Saturday died from gas poi
Emilia Uzunova, who was among the Bulgarian hostages, held by the Chechen rebels in the Moscow theatre, died at a hospital in Moscow. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lyubomir Todorov confirmed for novinite.
Russian President Putin declared Monday a National Day of Mourning. The news came a day after President Putin appealed for forgiveness for not having saved all the captives in an emotional television address hours after the raid.
Tel Aviv-Yafo Square was opened in Sofia with an official ceremony, attended by Israeli Ambassador to Bulgaria Emanuel Zisman and the mayor of Israel's capital. The square is at the crossroad of Hristo Botev and Todor Alexandrov boulevards.
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