Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
The Ministry of Justice is Looking for Translators
The Ministry of Justice seeks a contractor “Performing written and oral specialized official translations” worth BGN 366,000, VAT included. More than BGN 300,000 of them are for written translations, and the others for oral translations, reported BGNES. The term of the contract is two years. The Justice Ministry specified that the...
Putin Gives 1st Public Indication of 2018 Presidential Run
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the first public indication that he will run for a new term in the 2018 elections, in comments made during a visit to Eastern Siberia, reported Reuters. Putin was answering a question from a group of villagers in the Siberian republic of Buryatia via a TV link, organized during the president’s...
Heavyweight Legend Wladimir Klitschko Retires From Boxing
Wladimir Klitschko has decided to retire from boxing, killing any hopes of a potential rematch with heavyweight king Anthony Joshua, according to Daily Mail. The Ukrainian was defeated by Joshua in a heavyweight blockbuster back in April and the Brit was eyeing another colossal bout in Las Vegas on November 11. But the 41-year-old released a...
Mike Pence: ‘The Future of the Western Balkans Lay in the West’
US Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the future of the Western Balkans lay “in the West”, on the last leg of a tour aimed at reassuring Eastern European allies worried by Russia. After visiting Baltic state Estonia and the Caucasus nation of Georgia, Pence arrived on Tuesday in NATO’s newest member Montenegro on the...
Tillerson and Lavrov will Meet in Manila this Weekend
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson believes there is a danger that Russian-American relations will get worse. Tillerson will meet with Russia’s first diplomat Sergei Lavrov at a regional forum in Manila this weekend. Reports BNT. Tillerson spoke to journalists in Washington. They will be in Manila for the ministerial meeting of the...
Bulgaria Might Be Main Supplier of Pharmaceutical Products to Azerbaijan
Bulgarian companies are interested in the Pirallahi Industrial Park and currently exploring the possibilities for future cooperation, according to AzerNews. Azerbaijani Ambassador to Bulgaria Nargiz Gurbanova said in an interview with Trend that the embassy has sent Bulgarian business associations the necessary information about the activities of...
Trump to Sign Russia Sanctions, Moscow Retaliates
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for the measures and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties, Reuters reports.Moscow’s decision, which had echoes of the Cold...
Number of Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad Increased by 9.5% in July Compared to June 2017
In June 2017, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 618.9 thousand or by 9.5% above the registered in June 2016. In comparison with the same month of the previous year an increase was observed in the total number of the trips of Bulgarians to: Italy – by 30.2%, Spain – by 19.4%, Austria – by 15.3%, Czech...
HBO Announces 5-Part Miniseries on Chornobyl Accident
HBO says production will begin next year on a miniseries about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, according to TimesColonist. The five-part series will star Jared Harris as a Soviet scientist tapped by the Kremlin to investigate the accident. The series will dramatize the events of the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear catastrophe that resulted in widespread...
EU Deported 42.600 Albanian Asylum Seekers in 2016
The number of Albanian asylum seekers who have been deported to their home country last year was 42.600. This is the figure that was recently published by the European Institute of Statistics (EUROSTAT) in relation to the process of the deportation of asylum seekers from its territory, says the Independent Balkan News Agency. “As in 2015,...
