The chairman of Sofia municipal council Vladimir Kisyov is to launch an investigation into the controversial transfer of municipal real estate property assets with a combined area of 54,000 sq m, which was disclosed by local media over the weekend.
Legal control on the work of the administration should not be limited groundlessly for it is a guarantee that the law is observed by state bodies and for defense of citizens' rights and interests, Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov said in his speech on
Bulgaria will participate in the European Union (EU) financing with three payments, amounting to from 0.9 % to 1.
We hope concession contract for the airports in Varna and Burgas to be signed until the end of 2004, Bulgaria's Deputy Transport Minister, Nikola Yankov, said. Yankov pointed that the draft bill for the civil aviation was expected to be tabled in Parliam
A parliamentary committee of inquiry in Lithuania was set to publish a damning report that is expected to open the way to President Rolandas Paksas' impeachment in a corruption scandal. The committee was set up a month ago after allegations in a security
By Charles Arthur The Independent
By the end of this month Bulgaria will greenlight or reject a proposed termination of the contract with Russia's RSK MiG for repair works of Bulgaria's MiG-29 fighter aircraft, said in Bulgaria's second biggest town of Plovdiv Tsonko Kirov, MP of the ruli
The new hit of the Bulgarian pop star Irina Florin "Different" was broadcasted for the first time on Monday at 8.30 a.
Bulgaria's Chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which it will assume from the Netherlands as of January 1, will not be easy and routine, Yan Kubish, OSCE Secretary General, told Bulgarian journalists as the 11th
A total of 902 contracts with candidates and potential candidates for European Union funding have been signed over the three years of existence of the SAPARD agency in Bulgaria. The total value of the contracted investments has amounted at BGN 677 M.
A team of senior Japanese officials is on its way to Iraq to investigate an ambush that killed two Japanese diplomats near Tikrit. There are differing accounts of Saturday's attack with initial reports indicated the diplomats and their driver were killed
Millions of Indians will vote on Monday to elect four new state assemblies in balloting seen as a litmus test of popularity for India's ruling Hindu nationalists ahead of general elections in 2004. Some 94 million adults are eligible to vote in the states
"For the first time in more than a hundred years of conflict a detailed and comprehensive solution was agreed upon which settles the most critical issues of this conflict," the Palestinian and Israeli negotiators said in a statement, meaning the unofficia
An international conference dedicated to the hospital reforms started December 1 in Sofia to end December 2. On the first day of the conference Josep Figueras, Head of the Secretariat and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Syst
Bulgaria's former dissident-turned-president Zhelyo Zhelev said that in his opinion the motives for the murder of former Bulgarian Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov could be both political and economic. In an interview for private national TV channel bTV Zhe
Bulgaria assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for a month starting from December 1. Bulgaria is a nonpermanent member of the council and within its mandate this will be its second time in presidency over the Security Coun
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy was informed late on Sunday evening by his Portuguese counterpart that Portugal's Parliament has ratified Bulgaria's Accession Protocol.
A strong earthquake rumbled through a swath of western China's mountainous Xinjiang region Monday, killing at least 10 people and causing the collapse of hundreds of homes near the border with Kazakhstan, the government said. Thirty-four people were repor
Candlelight vigils, educational seminars and torchlight parades were held around the globe Monday to mark World AIDS Day. A total of 56 Bulgarian nationals were infected with the HIV in 2003, compared to 43 last year.
UK hit band Kosheen, which made it big with Hide U, came to Bulgaria to present their second album called with native American "mantra" Kokopelli.
American forces have captured three members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network in northern Iraq, a US military commander told AP. If confirmed, it would be the first disclosed detention of Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.
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