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Plovdiv, September 6, 2008 President Georgi Purvanov, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, National Assembly Chairman Georgi Pirinski, citizens and guests attended a rally and a tatoo in Plovdiv in connection with ... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:07:25 GMT

Iranian actress Hengameh Qaziani wins best actress award at Bulgarian festival
Iranian actress Hengameh Qaziani won the Best Actress prize at the 16th annual Love Is Folly International Film Festival in Varna, Bulgaria. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:50:01 GMT

Bulgarians Start Signing Orders of Dismissal of Govt as Protest
... Sergey Stanishev. Sofia mayor's formation GERB, the rightist Union of Democratic Forces, and Democrats for Strong Bulgaria are already spreading the forms across the country. The symbol of the campaign is a pen and the motto - "I am a European." In ... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:16:16 GMT

Bulgaria Celebrates Unification Day
Bulgaria is celebrating on Saturday the 123rd anniversary since the unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:15:57 GMT

Nonfiction: 'Freedom's Battle'
... nations, giving the action international credibility. Sixteen years later, Russia invaded Ottoman-controlled Bulgaria with a mixture of humanitarian and imperialistic motives. Reports that Turks were massacring Bulgarians aroused a strong pan-Slavic ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

40M euro retail park to open in north-east Bulgaria
Real estate investment company Greenfield Bulgaria, operating in Bulgaria and Romania, plans to invest 40 million euro in building a commercial park in Turgovishte, investor.bg reported. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:15:15 GMT

Nationalist Leader Claims MRF Chair Has Connections with Turkish Extremists
The leader of Bulgaria's extreme right and nationalist Ataka party alerted the National Security agency about Ahmed Dogan's alleged connections with the Turkish mafia and organized terrorist groups in Turkey. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:55:57 GMT

Jewish culture day presents musical traditions to the public
The European Day of Jewish Culture was first held in 1999, and since 2000, Bulgaria has been observing the open doors-type event as well. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:17:40 GMT

Business: Slovenia's Mercator to open trade centre in Republika Srpska
... next year. CEZ entered the Romanian market in 2005 when it took over the energy company Electrica Oltenia. Bulgaria signed an agreement with Japan's Bank for International Co-operation to borrow 230m euros for the construction of new container ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:33:25 GMT

BDZ Trains Can Reach Speed of 130 km/h in Northern Bulgaria
... railroad in the northern part of the country. Photo by Kameliya Atanassova (Sofia Photo Agency) Representatives of Bulgaria's National Railroad Infrastructure Company announced Friday that the trains in the central northern part of the country would ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:03:52 GMT

200 million to be spent on regional development
... Works Minister Iskra Mihailova said during a meeting in Rousse on September 4. After concluding the contracts, Bulgaria would fulfil its financial engagements for the second year of EU membership within this programme, she said as quoted by ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:37:13 GMT

Exclusive: Scotland are just Little England and shouldn't play football, says Macedonia bigmouth Vanco Trajanov
... have been so different after he was at the centre of a road-traffic incident last month. The player was heading to Bulgaria to catch a flight to join his colleagues for the friendly against Luxembourg when things took a disastrous turn for the ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:04:08 GMT

Tourism Barometer: Hand in hand
POTENTIAL: The botanical garden in Balchik could well become one of the year-round tourist sites on Bulgaria's northern Black Sea coast. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:54:13 GMT

The long return home
... without a Name is something of a return to her past, Kapka Kassabova's novel does not signal her own return to Bulgaria. She comes, regularly, every summer, for weeks or a month or so, because of family and friends here, and because she prefers the ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:53:16 GMT

Property Focus: Hospitals: the next hot thing?
In 2000, there were only 18 private healthcare facilities, with a capacity for 306 beds. By last year, however, Bulgaria had 71 new private hospitals and 3110 beds, Dnevnik daily reported. Despite the still rough-around-the-edges system of providing ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:51:42 GMT

Bulgaria re-launches construction of Belene nuclear plant
Bulgaria hopes a new, 4 billion-euro facility will help it regain its earlier role as a Balkan energy powerhouse. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:54:10 GMT

Unpaid debts mean Bulgaria could face a gas crisis
Bulgaria was on the brink of an unprecedented gas crisis because of heating companies' unpaid debts, the state-owned gas company Bulgargaz said on September 3. Bulgargaz was urgently trying to collect at least ... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:05:46 GMT

Boy Scout Troop 882 plans 50th anniversary
... of performances, including representing the United States in the Children's Banner of Peace Assembly, in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1985. Now in it's 15th year, FootPrints/Blizzard Dance Studio will offer classes in ballet, modern dance, jazz and tap for ... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:36:43 GMT

Allen-Atanasov to wed Oct. 18
Ronald and Margaret Allen of Winchester announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah E. Allen, to Stoyan Y. Atanasov, son of Yuri and Zlatka Atanasovi of Sofia, Bulgaria. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:18:47 GMT

Stuttgart fret over BaAYtA1 4rk fitness
YA ldA ray BaAYtA1 4rk's availability for VfB Stuttgart's UEFA Cup tie against Bulgarian club PFC Cherno More Varna is in doubt after the midfielder suffered a thigh injury in training. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:57:00 GMT

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