Russia is sending 10 000 children and hundreds of elderly to Bulgaria and the Ukraine to save them from the smoldering heat and overpowering smog in Moscow, the city's Mayor, Yriy Luzhkov, announced Tuesday.
The funding for the archaeological excavations that led to the much celebrated and much debated recent discovery of relics of St. John the Baptist in Bulgaria was provided by Norway.
The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, thanked Monday his Bulgarian counterpart, Boyko Borisov, for the timely help in extinguishing wildfires ravaging Moscow suburbs for days now.
Bulgarian firemen were able to salvage from the blaze a historic Russian village, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry informs.
A total of thirty five Bulgarians have requested to be evacuated from Moscow, the spokesperson of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, Vesela Cherneva, informs Monday.
The Bulgarian authorities will not be imposing any sanctions on Russian visitors with expired visas, who decided to stay longer in Bulgaria because of the critical situation with wildfires in the Moscow region.
The first group of employees of the Bulgarian Embassy in Moscow and their families will arrive back home in Bulgaria Sunday night.
The wives and kids of Bulgarian diplomats in Moscow, as well as female employees, who work in the Bulgarian embassy, except for the ones who work in the consulate, will be evacuated.
The group of 92 of Bulgaria's best firemen has arrived in Moscow early Saturday morning and is accommodated in a camp 30 km from Moscow.
Serbian President Boris Tadic has arrived to Bulgaria's Varna for high-level bilateral talks with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
A large group of Bulgarian migrant workers in Portugal have been sheltered with the aid of the Bulgarian Embassy in Lisbon.
Bulgaria's Embassy in Moscow has issued a warning against traveling to Russia as a large part of the latter is affected by environmental problems caused by raging forest fires.
Russia is forming an international task force to assist in fighting the wildfires that have been ravaging the country for days now, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations informs.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has denied the reports that it will be closing down its embassy in Dublin, reports The Irish Times.
Serbian President Boris Tadic is arriving to Bulgaria for high-profile talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
Bulgaria's Ambassador to US, Elena Poptodorova, handed Thursday her letters of accreditation to the American Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg, the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington DC reported.
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has praised famous comedian Dimitar Tudzharov, aka Shkumbata, who will be appointed a new Bulgarian consul in Chicago, Illinois.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denouncing the missile attacks launched by militants against cities in Israel and Jordan.
At the end of their strike, protesting Greek lorry drivers have attacked Bulgarian drivers of gasoline tankers, the Greek APE-MPE has announced.
A Bulgarian comedian, who back in the communist era, was popular as an imitator of former dictator Todor Zhivkov, has been appointed on the staff of the country's General Consulate at Chicago in the United States.
The new Bulgarian Ambassador to Macedonia Rakovski Lashev has presented his credentials to FYROM President George Ivanov.
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