The gas used during the operation of the Russian special forces caused the death of the Bulgarian hostage Emilia Uzunova in the Moscow siege. The corps was recognized by a delegation of the Austrian embassy Sunday afternoon.
French tyre producer Michelin presented its new winter products Michelin Alpin 2 and Kleber Krisalp HP, which are already available in Bulgaria for the coming winter season. The market in Central and Eastern Europe has made much more progress than Western
One of the most influential rating agencies FITCH IBCA upgraded Bulgaria's long-tem credit rating in foreign currency from BB- to BB with positive prospects. The long-term rating in local currency rose from BB to BB+.
The development of financial sector in the Southeast Europe and the foreign investments in the region feature as the main themes of a Euromoney conference. The event started today in Croatia's Dubrovnik attended by Bulgaria's Finance Minister Milen Velch
Bulgaria's embassy in Kabul tightened security measures after the hostage drama in Moscow. However, ambassador Krasimir Tulechki said his colleagues were not frightened.
The timing is very bad for the sale of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, Apostol Apostolov, head of the Privatization Agency, commented Tuesday. Apostolov said again that if the Bulgarian telecom was sold in 1999, the situation would have been muc
The condition of Bulgarian Vesselin Nedkov, who was among the hostages in the Moscow theatre, is good, spokesman of Bulgaria's embassy in Moscow said. Nedkov's wife who arrived in Moscow today has already visited him in hospital.
The Chechen World Congress in Copenhagen is not illegal, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said answering a question on the controversial event. He noted that the congress was planned long ago.
Bulgaria and Romania will get different roadmaps for EU accession till the end of the year. EU enlargement commissioner Gunter Verheugen said that for BBC.
"The whole world acknowledges the perfection of the hostages-saving operation," Vladimir Klimanov, spokesman of Russia's embassy in Bulgaria said. According to him, the international terrorism would be defeated when all countries unite their efforts to fi
Interior ministers of eleven countries adopted a declaration against illegal migration and related crimes at an international conference in Slovenia. The event was held in the town of Brdo pri Kranju.
The heads of the National Security Service, National Service for Organised Crime Control and the fire brigade will be summoned by the parliamentary committee on internal security and public order and the committee on foreign policy, defence and security.
Two rivers of lava were snaking down the slopes of Mount Etna on Monday, as emergency workers dug channels in the earth in an attempt to divert the flow from the Sicilian town of Linguaglossa. The airport outside the city of Catania remained closed for a
The general meeting of the creditors of indebted Balkan Airlines will take place today. It will be decided whether the carrier would be liquidated.
Some ninety companies obtained BGN 1.5 M of loans over the past two years under the JOBS program, a project run jointly by the Social Ministry and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Romania's Prime Minister Adrian Nastase will visit Bulgaria today. Meetings with his Bulgarian counterpart Simeon Saxe-Coburg, President Parvanov and Parliament Speaker Onyan Gerdzhikov will top his agenda.
MPs from ruling Simeon II National Movement submitted a bill, under which tollway system for motorways, primary roads and border area roads will be introduced as of January 1, 2004. The bill specifies the type of vehicles that will be tolled and the type
The Bulgarian government has to provide in a week to Brussels additional information about what is being done to improve the situation of the Roma minority in Bulgaria. The report was requested by the European Commission.
Foreign Minister Passy said in the Hague that for the time being the Netherlands did not plan to introduce visa requirements for Bulgarians. He briefed high-ranking Dutch officials about the measures Bulgaria is taking to curb illegal emigration.
Japan Credit Rating Agency may again up Bulgaria's credit rating. That emerged during the four-day visit of Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev in Japan that started Monday.
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