A proposal urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to go into exile to avert a war is gaining support among Arab Gulf states. Kuwait and Bahrain have backed a proposal made by the United Arab Emirates for the Iraqi leader to go into exile, in return for gua
BBC Online Russian President Vladimir Putin has restated his firm opposition to a possible US-led war on Iraq, saying that the current crisis must be resolved through peaceful means.
Bulgarian archeologists will start massive excavations in the eastern part of the Rhodope Mountain known as a region extraordinarily rich in archeology finds. The explorers will study twenty-eight sites - several mediaeval settlements and a prehistoric mo
An impressive ceremony attended by Russia's President Putin was held to mark Bulgaria's national holiday at historical Mount Shipka, some 270km east of capital Sofia. In their adresses, Putin and his Bulgarian counterpart Parvanov stressed that the restor
Bulgarians enthusiastically celebrated March 3 - the national holiday. The country's President Parvanov, Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg togather with Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov and all ministers attended the solemn ceremony to mark Bulgaria's nation
Bulgaria's orthodox Patriarch Maxim awarded the ecclesiastical order St Tsar Boris to Russian President Putin. This is the most important distinction of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and has not been conferred to a head of state for twenty years.
The Associated Press By Veselin Toshkov
Bulgaria expects USD 35 M cash payment on Russia's debt next week. Finance Minister Milen Velchev said that after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Alexey Kudrin on Sunday.
Turkey's prime minister said Sunday his country's "friendly relationship" with the United States would not change despite parliament's rejection of a proposal to let 62,000 U.S.
The opinion that Bulgaria responded adequately to the criticism of French President Jacque Chirac slightly prevails among novinite.com readers.
Russia will boost the transit of natural gas through Bulgaria to Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. Russia's President Vladimir Putin said that during his visit to Sofia noting that the transit will be increased from 12 B to 18 B cubic meters.
A seven-kilometre queue wound at the Kalotina border checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Serb border. Vehicles have also crowded on the Serbian side of the crossing.
Fire broke out in Egypt's new Alexandria library on Sunday, and 29 people were rushed to local hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation. The fire was blamed on a short circuit.
Russia's President Putin presented Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg with documents that refer to the family history of Bulgaria's head of Cabinet. At a lunch in Sheraton Sofia, the Russian guest handed to the prime minister papers from the archives of Ru
Bulgarian will cut significantly the time needed to issue visas to Russian tourists. Bulgaria's administration pledged to process the visas of Russian holidaymakers within twenty-four hours.
Valuable artifacts were stolen from a museum in northern Bulgarian city Shumen. Thieves seized two bronze statuettes and a marble head after raiding the museum Saturday night.
Russia's President Putin said that a historical step has been made in Bulgarian-Russian relations with his current visit to Sofia. "We started to build our relations on a new, positive basis after a ten-year halt," Putin said at the news conference he hel
The stances of Sofia and Moscow on Iraqi crisis differ, Russia's President Putin said at a news conference in Sofia. Russia thinks the crisis could be solved with peaceful means, he told media.
Russian President Putin will try to strengthen the post-communist friendship with Bulgaria during his Sofia visit but what he will say about Iraq will be most interesting, Reuters news agency commented, quoted by the Bulgarian News Agency. Putin will see
Bulgaria's EU pre-accession negotiations might be delayed by the Iraqi crisis. The country's Euro-integration minister Meglena Kuneva said that in an interview for Bulgarian television bTV on Sunday.
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